Miami Heat 95 vs San Antonio Spurs 88
The Miami Heat are NBA champions for the second time in a row. It was the most obvious ending in history, the one everyone expected, the easiest to predict in October. However, it came to an end one of the strangest and most fought finals of the last years, which subverted game after game what we thought we knew about the two teams. The San Antonio Spurs raise their arms only in game 7 and do it with their heads held high, after coming close to the title in game 6.
He won Lebron James which, like every time, had to suffer the most disparate criticisms – the tired and anachronistic refrain of the choker – after the first subdued rehearsals, but which, as often happens to him, came out strong in the moments when it mattered most: in the desperate comeback game 6, and throughout yesterday's game, closed with 37 points and 12 rebounds, shooting very well even from long range (5 out of 10 from three).
L'Mvp of the Finals, for the second time in a row, it's obviously him, even if he needed a sumptuous Wade (23 points and 10 rebounds) and a newfound Battier (6 of 8 from three) to get the better of a never tame San Antonio. Very silent (0 for both), however, the two heroes of the end of game 6, Ray Allen and Chris Bosh.
The Spurs lose in the most painful way what is probably their last race, and they cannot help but think of that dilapidated game 6 when it seemed they had already put the NBA champions ring on their finger. Once again, Duncan was moving with his 24 points and 12 rebounds, and you wouldn't have thought he was going for 38. Just as moving was Kawhi Leonard (19 points and 16 rebounds), a small champion in the making who already plays with the maturity of the veteran and who confirms, as if it were necessary, the goodness of a system, the Spurs system, which chooses the most suitable players and makes them perform beyond their possibilities.
To betray San Antonio was the hero by chance of the first 5 races Danny Green, yesterday disastrous from long distance, and Tony Parker held back by physical problems. But inertia, yesterday, was all on the other side. On the Miami side, that with the back-to-back he opened a small dynasty, and on Lebron's side who, putting his second ring on his finger, has only begun to write his name in the history of this game. At this point, the sky's the limit.
