Spurs Are The NBA Champions

The San Antonio Spurs won their 5th NBA championship and first since 2007, by routing the defending two time champion Miami Heat in the last three games of the NBA finals.

San Antonio took the title in five games as was the case with their title in 1999. Kawhi Leonard, won the Finals MVP award.

In winning the last three games by wide margins and in bouncing back from a devastating defeat to Miami in last year’s finals series, the Spurs accomplished quite a feat.

Spurs coach Gregg  Popovich tied the too often forgotten Minneapolis Lakers’ coach, John Kundla, and current Heat team president, Pat Riley, with his fifth coaching title. Only Phil Jackson and Arnold “Red” Auerbach have more NBA titles as a coach.

Tim Duncan won his fifth title while Tony Parker and Manu Ginobili, each of whom missed a key free throw in the Spurs’ horrible game six loss last year, have now played on four title teams.

This year, the two basketball champions of 1999 in college and pro got to “party like it was 1999” as pop singer Prince once said he would do in a hit song.

Both the University of Connecticut and the Spurs each of whom won their first crown in 1999, added to an impressive total this year.

Connecticut won their 4th NCAA title and the Spurs, (5-0) in game 5 of the NBA finals, won their 5th crown.

Finals MVP