As a lifelong San Antonio Spurs fan, consider what I'm about to say an exercise in devil's advocacy. To many Spurs fans, saying anything nice about the Heat is tantamount to selling one's soul to that devil. But to fair-minded fans on both sides, it shouldn't be too hard to respect what the other team is doing.
These two teams are among the best we've seen in a long, long time.
Better than the post-Shaq Lakers. Better than Kevin Garnett's Boston Celtics. Better than the Dallas Mavericks and their sheer determination.
As Frank Vogel noted to media during the Eastern Conference Finals, Miami is the Chicago Bulls of our era. It boasts the best player on the planet and a couple of sidekicks with All-Star credentials of their own. The Heat's dynasty may not measure up to Chicago's when all is said and done, but four straight trips to the NBA Finals is a remarkably rare achievement in its own right.
Returning from a 3-1 series deficit would become one of the rarest of all.
No team has ever done that in the Finals, and 31 have tried. They all came up empty.
So the first reason t ...
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