San Antonio Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich is already devising plans to keep his 2014 champions motivated after a one-sided, five-game series against the Miami Heat.
"I'm worried for one reason," Popovich told longtime San Antonio Express-News scribe Buck Harvey. "They are human beings. They are going to feel satisfied."
According to Harvey, San Antonio's practice facility was adorned with a "framed picture of the Game 6 scoreboard" last season—one that depicted a 13-point lead the Spurs held late in the third quarter.
The message was unmistakable: This was a game the Spurs should have won.
It was a message that resonated with the team, including a 38-year-old future Hall of Famer with seemingly nothing left to prove.
Tim Duncan told reporters this after clinching an appearance in the 2014 NBA Finals:
We're happy to be back here this year. We're happy to have another opportunity at it. We're happy that it's the Heat again. We'll be ready for them. We've got some experience, obviously, from last year against them. And we'll go ba ...
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