No. 2: San Antonio Spurs
Jun 19, 2013; Miami, FL, USA; San Antonio Spurs power forward Tim Duncan talks to the media following practice before game seven of the 2013 NBA Finals against the Miami Heat at the American Airlines Arena. Mandatory Credit: Derick E. Hingle-USA TODAY Sports
They are old. They don’t have a dominant player like Chris Paul, Durant, or LeBron. But if you watched the Finals, they deserve to be No. 2 if not No.1-B.
If the basketball gods didn’t want Miami to win, they would have won the championship (but it’s okay, since the same gods wanted Dallas and Dirk to get a ring so they made Dallas win in 2011). The Spurs are controlled, professional and play well in a perfect system. Watching the Finals, it was clear the Spurs and Heat were on another level.
If the Spurs can repeat or avoid a meltdown in the Western Conference Finals, we could see the same thing again… and be endlessly entertained.