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Not that I pay a tremendous amount of attention to the NBA, but it\u2019s almost impossible to ignore when some awful four-lettered \u201csports channel\u201d is on just about everywhere from the gym to various restaurants.\u00a0 That being said, I was astutely aware that as of right now, half of the NBA Finals is set, with the San Antonio Spurs securing their spot in the finals.\u00a0 Meanwhile the Heat and Pacers are duking it out in the east, to see who will oppose them for the championship.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n It is painfully obvious that the horribly biased sports media wants more than anything, for the Miami Heat to not only beat the Pacers, but to also go into the finals and beat the Spurs.\u00a0 The Spurs beating the Heat would be catastrophic for the media, but it would still pale in comparison if the Pacers managed to beat the Heat, and the finals would be between \u201cSan Antonio and Indiana.\u201d\u00a0 It is safe to assume that the vast majority would be greatly pleased if it would just end up with the Heat, namely LeBron James, to end up as champions again.\u00a0 Subsequently, this is where I\u2019d\u00a0want<\/em>\u00a0to say that the de facto worst-case scenario is if the Spurs won it, but there\u2019s no denying the fact that the Pacers winning it all would be exponentially worse.\u00a0 But aside from that let\u2019s just get to the fact that I want the Spurs to win it all regardless.<\/span><\/p>\n Ironically, it\u2019s all the reasons why I want the Spurs to win it all is what the media can fall back to if it actually comes to fruition: the Spurs really are the last NBA team to actually be just that \u2013 an NBA\u00a0team<\/strong>.\u00a0 They\u2019re \u201cboring\u201d in the fact that they have no super-dynamic personalities (read: massive, marketable egos), they play as a team and have done such for the last 15 years, and they play a fundamental, basic style of basketball that isn\u2019t flashy but is proven to be capable of winning regardless.\u00a0 In essence, they are the anti-Heat, which means that they are the anti-LeBron James.\u00a0 The media would prefer to have LeBron James win it all, so they can write mountains of bullshit about his greatness, than make more ill-advised comparisons to Michael Jordan.<\/span><\/p>\n But back to the Spurs, it would bring me great joy in seeing them win another NBA championship.\u00a0 They\u2019re everything that\u2019s right about the game of basketball, yet it\u2019s ironic to see just how badly people want to see that fail.\u00a0 Tim Duncan, the stoic, emotionless giant at the twilight of his career, already a three-time champion with nothing left to prove, sinking a decade and a half of bank shots from the wing and showing up absolutely nobody in the process.\u00a0 Manu Ginobili, the Argentinian forward also has nothing left to prove in his career as he\u2019s made money, won championships, and even helmed his country to the only Olympic gold medal to not go to the United States in almost three decades.\u00a0 And then there\u2019s Tony Parker, the Belgian point-guard who introduced his teammates to ketchup-and-mayo mix with their fries while being the floor general to three other championships; he has nothing left to prove either.<\/span><\/p>\n None of these guys are really household names, and none of them are really ever talked about until the playoffs begin, and they do what they\u2019ve been doing over the last decade, which is succeed.\u00a0 None of them are headcases, and none of them have the self-aggrandizing egos that demand screen time and reporters to be around them at all times.\u00a0 When the day is over, all they really do is win, and despite the fact that none of them really have anything left to prove, they\u2019re in place to possibly win yet another championship by playing boring, fundamental basketball where the names on the front of the jersey matter more than the names on the back, the shoes they wear, and their personal behavior.<\/span><\/p>\n What I really want to see happen in the NBA Finals is that sure, the Heat make it to take on the Spurs.\u00a0 But I don\u2019t necessarily want the Spurs to flat out crush the Heat in a four game sweep, because that wouldn\u2019t be very fun.\u00a0 I\u2019d rather see the series go to perhaps like six games, where in the sixth game, in the closing seconds, the Spurs are down by a point, and in a massive defensive clusterfuck because nobody plays defense anymore, Tim Duncan shakes his defender on the left wing, gets the ball, and banks in the championship-winning field goal with time expiring.\u00a0 The Spurs win the championship on Miami\u2019s floor, and then shortly after being crowned champions, Duncan, Ginobili, Parker, and even Gregg Popovich all declare retirement from the NBA and walk away champions with a happy ending, because none of them have anything left to prove.<\/span><\/p>\n In spite of their efforts the media is disappointed that they don\u2019t get to write about the adulation of LeBron James and Dwyane Wade, so they proceed to heap loads of praise onto the Spurs with an endless array of sniping remarks at the Heat, followed by an entire off-season of Heat criticism.<\/span><\/p>\n Unfortunately, because I wrote all of this, the Spurs are probably destined to lose in the finals now.<\/span><\/p>\n But it\u2019s not like I really care about the NBA much anyway.\u00a0 I place trying to break out of this writer\u2019s funk as substantially higher priority than the fucking NBA.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Not that I pay a tremendous amount of attention to the NBA, but it\u2019s almost impossible to ignore when some awful four-lettered \u201csports channel\u201d is on just about everywhere from the gym to various restaurants.\u00a0 That being said, I was astutely aware that as of right now, half of the NBA Finals is set, with … Continue reading Why I hope the Spurs win it all<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[59,92,15],"class_list":["post-36180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-basketball","tag-boredom","tag-og"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36182,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36180\/revisions\/36182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}