Following the San Antonio Spurs’ series-clinching Game 6 win over the Oklahoma City Thunder in the Western Conference Finals, Tim Duncan was asked by TNT’s David Aldridge about squaring off against the Miami Heat one year after his team's heartbreaking seven-game defeat.
“We have four more to win,” Duncan said, as reported by Sports Illustrated. “We’ll do it this time.”
We’ll do it this time.
Coming from Duncan—a player for whom the word “reserved” barely does his constitution justice—such conspicuous confidence was striking indeed. Did Duncan know something the rest of us didn’t? Were his Spurs in possession of some special secret beyond the comprehension of us feeble humans?
Three games and two transcendent performances later, San Antonio’s magic number is down to one—the demons dealt by last year’s dastardly defeat, well within an exorcism’s reach.
Appropriate, then, that the Spurs will have their chance on a Sunday, screams of hometown fans serving as the sermon, San Antonio’s ...
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