adminSAN ANTONIO. — The San Antonio Spurs defeated the Miami Heat 104-87 on Sunday to capture their fifth NBA championship and deny the Heat a third straight basketball title.
Fuelled by the disappointment of a seven-game loss to the Heat in last year’s finals, the top-seeded Spurs throttled the two-time defending champions in the final three games to take the best-of-seven title series four games to one.
“We remember what happened last year and how it felt in that locker room and we used it and built on it and got back here and it’s amazing,” Spurs centre Tim Duncan said. “It makes last year OK.”
San Antonio also won titles in 1999, 2003, 2005 and 2007. With this win they became the first team since the Detroit Pistons in 1989 to win the title after falling in game seven of the finals the previous year. — AFP.
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