Won the youngest and probably also the strongest. At least that's what the field said, because in the end whoever wins is always right, and somehow proved to be stronger than his opponent, if not better. Certainly those who had the most won, in the legs and in hunger, those who at the end of a very long run were still able to catch their breath.
In the final there go Heat and Thunder, starting tonight. Spurs and Celtics out, goodbye to the old dynasties, let's go, make way for the young, to the new advancing. It wasn't enough for Duncan, Garnett and all the others, infinite pride and class, which, you know, is not water. Organization and teamwork weren't enough in San Antonio and Boston, suffocated as one progressed, like in the grip of a snake, by the overflowing athleticism of the others.
Before then it had to happen, that the old glories hauled down their flag, and that the Miami Heat and the Oklahoma City Tunders competed on the top step. It had to happen, sooner or later, that the two teams that more than any other, in addition to the rosy present, have the near future of this league in their hands, found themselves facing the most important challenge.
The Thunder, in their effrontery, perhaps even forged ahead, showing up for the appointment ahead of schedule and getting there almost as favourites. The boys from Oklahoma, in fact, seem clearer mentally and, on the way to the finals, they are the ones who have impressed the most by winning better, so to speak, than their rivals, and against more convincing opponents, such as the champions in charge of Dallas, the Lakers of Bryant and those Spurs who for many were the natural favorites to win the final.
They also seem more team, the Thunder, stronger as a whole, in that stmain break all aimed at enhancing the incredible talent of Kevin Durant who with the help, above all, of Westbrook and "Barba" Harden (authentic idol of his fans) will have to deal directly with a Lebron James who seemed, however, in the seven matches against Boston, increasingly alone to take charge of his team, abandoned by a very discontinuous Wade, while Bosh has just returned from an injury.
It will be a brutal clash, in the name of modernity, between two teams of suffocating athleticism, a very tough and balanced challenge, played on the edge of emotions, the desire to win and the fear of losing. Will be the clash, above all, between Kevin Durant and Lebron James.
However it ends up, one of the two strongest players in the current NBA will have won his first championship title after these finals. And perhaps the vacuum of power due to the decline of Lakers and Spurs (authentic rulers of the last decade NBA) and the Celtics will be filled without expected.
It was the final that almost everyone, especially in America, wanted. Not the prettiest, probably, but definitely the most current, the one that could baptize a new rivalry, the one between James and Durant, between the Heat and the Thunder, which could write unforgettable pages in the history of NBA basketball.
