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It all starts in
San Antonio with Game 1 of the NBA Finals on Thursday, June 7 at
9 p.m. ET on ABC.
San Antonio
Spurs vs. the Cleveland Cavaliers
The NBA Finals are the most exciting games in all of pro
basketball and this year it's the
San Antonio Spurs vs. the Cleveland Cavaliers. Who will bring
home the title? Can LeBron lift the Cavs over San Antonio or
will Tim Duncan and the Spurs end King James' postseason reign?
The Spurs, are veteran group led by two-time league MVP and
three-time Finals MVP Tim Duncan as well as head coach Gregg
Popovich, in his 12th year with San Antonio compiling a .676
winning percentage and garnering the 2003 NBA Coach of the Year
Award in the process.
The Cavs, are a group of upstarts led by the magnificent LeBron
James and the young coach Mike Brown, once a Popovich assistant,
who has guided Cleveland to a 100-64 mark in his two seasons at
the helm.
2007 NBA Finals Championship Results
| The San
Antonio Spurs go for their fourth NBA title in nine years, a
feat that would qualify them as a NBA dynasty. The San
Antonio Spurs defeated the Cleveland Cavaliers 83-82 to win
their fourth NBA Championship. The Spurs swept the series
4-0. Tim Duncan had
24 points, 13 rebounds and five big blocked shots to lead
the San Antonio Spurs to an 85-76 victory over the Cleveland
Cavaliers in Game 1 of the NBA Finals. |
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In Game two, the Spurs
dominated for most of the game, leading by as many as 29 points late in the
third quarter before the Cavaliers made a run in the fourth. But it was too
late for Cleveland and San Antonio came away with a 103-92 victory.
The Spurs took a commanding
3-0 lead over the Cleveland Cavaliers after a 75-72 victory in Game 3.
The rest was history, With an
83-82 escape that broomed away LeBron James' Cleveland Cavaliers and
completed its first-ever Finals sweep, San Antonio joins an elite group of
teams in NBA history that have won four titles in less than a decade,
slotting in alongside the 1990s Chicago Bulls (six titles in eight seasons),
the 1980s Los Angeles Lakers (five titles and three more trips to the Finals
in that decade), the old Boston Celtics (nine championships in the '60s and
11 in 13 seasons from 1957-69) and the original Lakers in Minneapolis (five
in six seasons from 1949-54). The Spurs are thus one of only four franchises
since the NBA's inception in 1947 to win a championship four times, leaving
them behind only the Celtics (16), Lakers (14) and Bulls (six). |