LeBron James will take center stage in Game 6. (Garrett Ellwood/NBAE/Getty Images) The San Antonio Spurs are 48 minutes away from the fifth NBA championship of the Gregg Popovich-Tim Duncan era. The Miami Heat are 48 minutes away from either hosting a Game 7 for back-to-back titles on their home court or facing an offseason [...]
Story Highlights Conspiracy theorists are out because Crawford is Game 6 ref NBA grades officials throughout the season In Finals, top grades guys rotate throughout series Miami – NBA referee Joey Crawford is part of the league’s 12-man pool for officiating Finals games, so it’s not exactly a surprise Crawford got the call for Game [...]
LeBron James faces an offseason of questions about the Heat if Miami cannot win Games 6 and 7. Greg Nelson/SI MIAMI — LeBron James wasn’t being insincere after his Heat had fallen behind 3-2 in the NBA Finals. “It’s a great opportunity for both teams — for them to win it, and for us to [...]
Miami Heat point guard Norris Cole (30) attempts a shot over San Antonio Spurs point guard Tony Parker (9) in a recent NBA Finals game.(Photo: Soobum Im-USA TODAY Sports) SAN ANTONIO – Miami Heat point guard Norris Cole is not your average second-year guard. Some NBA players go their entire careers without having the chance [...]
SAN ANTONIO — It was a performance for the aged. Manu Ginobili was going on 36 and retired. He had alternated between old, ineffective and downright done in the NBA Finals. Coach Gregg Popovich, stubborn soul that he is, decided to start his ancient Argentinian swingman anyway — for the first time [...]
Desert Storm veteran Nick Ortiz transported bombs and bullets during U.S. Army tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. During the first two games of the NBA Finals between the Heat and San Antonio, Ortiz transported cable for TV camera crews. Ortiz and three other U.S. military reservists stationed in Perrine did TV’s version of grunt work [...]
MIAMI – With the final week of the NBA season now here, ticket prices are going into overdrive. The online ticket resale site StubHub showed just about 3,000 tickets were available for purchase on the secondary markets in Miami for Game 6 of the NBA Finals between the Heat and the San Antonio Spurs on [...]
SAN ANTONIO Danny Green once wasn’t good enough to be on the same team as LeBron James. Now he’s an NBA Finals record-holder, and a big reason why the regular season MVP’s chances of a second consecutive championship are in serious trouble. Setting a Finals mark with 25 3-pointers, Green finished with 24 points and [...]
SAN ANTONIO — Tim Duncan, Tony Parker and Manu Ginobili might not have many, or any more chances to play an NBA Finals game at AT&T Center, with age, nagging injuries and the rising young powers in the Western Conference making it more difficult for the trio to maintain the San Antonio Spurs’ incredible [...]
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Posted by Inside Hoops Jun 17 Danny Green once wasn’t good enough to be on the same team as LeBron James. Now he’s an NBA Finals record-holder, and a big reason why the MVP’s chances of a second consecutive championship are in serious trouble. Setting a Finals mark with 25 3-pointers, Green finished [...]
June 17th, 2013 by Brendan Dunne | No championship flavored Nike LeBron X? No Air Jordan PE to commemorate another ring for Ray Allen? That’s sort of what it’s looking like, as the Miami Heat now have their backs against the wall-the Spurs up 3 to 2 in the series. For the first time all [...]
By Royce Young | NBA writer June 16, 2013 9:21 PM ET SAN ANTONIO — Danny Green has put his name in the NBA record books. With a 3-pointer in the third quarter of Game 5 on Sunday, Green set the NBA Finals record for most 3s made in a series, putting him at 25-38 [...]
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Danny Green once wasn’t good enough to be on the same team as LeBron James. Now he’s an NBA Finals record-holder, and a big reason why the MVP’s chances of a second consecutive championship are in serious trouble. Setting a Finals mark with 25 3-pointers, Green finished with 24 points and [...]
Manu Ginobili ran onto the floor as fans stood and screamed. He went to the bench, and they chanted his name. The sights and sounds of so many San Antonio spring nights were back Sunday – and the real party might be just a few days away. Ginobili broke out of a slump in a [...]