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Miami Heat – Dwyane Wade Enjoys Some Alone Time
With LeBron James out for maintenance, it was up for Dwyane Wade to lead the Miami Heat in their NBA Finals rematch on far less serious conditions, enjoying a chance to show he’s not as old or banged up as he’s made out to be at times, and proving that it’s going to be a much better season for him individually than some might suggest it’ll be.
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Players With Regular Season & NBA Finals MVP at the Same Time
By winning the NBA title, regular season MVP and NBA Finals MVP for a second consecutive time, LeBron James became one of the few players to win the awards in the same season more than once, joining Michael Jordan and Larry Bird, while Willis Reed, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Magic Johnson, Hakeem Olajuwon, Shaquille O’Neal and Tim Duncan did it once as well.
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San Antonio Spurs – Tim Duncan Got Dragged Down by Manu Ginobili & Tony Parker
It’s hard to think about it at the moment, but the San Antonio Spurs vastly exceeded expectations by reaching the NBA finals, not to mention dragging it to a game 7 and being in it right up until the very end. Why it ended badly? Because Tim Duncan was alone among the big three that showed up for the final two games, while Manu Ginobili kept making all the wrong moves, and Tony Parker didn’t have it in him to be on the court in crunch time.
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Best Photos of the Miami Heat Winning the 2013 NBA Finals
Game 7 of the 2013 NBA finals was filled with great moments, both of joy, mostly coming from LeBron James and the Miami Heat, but also of despair, sadness and disappointment from Tim Duncan and the San Antonio Spurs.
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San Antonio Spurs – Manu Ginobili Needs Gregg Popovich To Make the Right Decision About Him
There’s more than just the question of whether the Manu Ginobili of more than 80% of this series will show up. It’s about whether Gregg Popovich thinks he has it in him to put it behind in game 7 of the 2013 NBA finals, and even more importantly, is Popovich willing to take him off the court when he sees it’s damaging the San Antonio Spurs.
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San Antonio Spurs – Tim Duncan Too Tired to Make Up For Manu Ginobili & Tony Parker Being Terrible
There’s only so much Tim Duncan can do. After a heroic first half in which he tortured Chris Bosh in the low post, age and fatigue finally kicked in. The problem? When the game was on the line in the fourth quarter Gregg Popovich didn’t have him on the floor, and in overtime, Tony Parker and Manu Ginobili messed up badly enough for Duncan’s great game 6 of the NBA finals not really matter.
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NBA Finals, Game 6 – LeBron James Needs to Thank Chris Bosh & Ray Allen
Before we reached overtime, this was about to be the story of how LeBron James messed up in the clutch, and Tony Parker coming out of nowhere. But James hit one big three to take the Miami Heat out of the grave, and Ray Allen hit a game tying three pointer to send the game into overtime. In it, it came down to playing good defense, and Chris Bosh with two huge clutch blocks on Tony Parker and Danny Green.
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San Antonio Spurs – Manu Ginobili & Tony Parker Can’t Fade Away Now
There are a lot of heroes in the performance the San Antonio Spurs are putting on in the NBA Finals, with Danny Green and his three point shooting probably being the most obvious of them, but the key to their wins has always been about the man making the decisions with the ball, which was Tony Parker in the first two games and finally getting Manu Ginobili to join him in the last one.
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San Antonio Spurs – The Big Three Like They’re Supposed to Be
Those who doubted Manu Ginobili were wrong, and so were those who thought Tony Parker couldn’t have enough in him to put on a show in the second half, or that Danny Green would stop hitting three pointers at some point. Tim Duncan and Kawhi Leonard completed the offensive juggernaut of a game the San Antonio Spurs had, now only one win away from winning the 2013 NBA Finals.
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San Antonio Spurs – Their Make or Break Moment of the NBA Finals
In the two games the San Antonio Spurs won in the 2013 NBA Finals so far, it seems that either a slightly lucky break (game 1) or a shooting spree (game 3) that won’t happen again were the main reason for the win, while in their losses, it was simply the case of being outplayed by a better team, while Tony Parker collapsed both times in the second half, and the man who should be backing him up, Manu Ginobili, was nowhere to be found.