After losing the 2013 NBA Finals in crushing fashion to the Miami Heat, the San Antonio Spurs went on a season-long revenge tour of beautiful basketball, led by their veteran trio of Tim Duncan, Tony Parker and Manu Ginobili. But those Spurs also rostered an ascendant Kawhi Leonard, who would win Finals MVP in 2014, and a deep bench that got huge contributions from its many international players en route to a ring. In this episode of Why They Won, Kirk Goldsberry explores the stats that made this team so exceptional.
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23 Comments
What about Anderw Gaze ?
🇨🇱🤠☝️💍💍💍💍💍go spurs go
Great team, awesome video I love this series idea!
Random thought: Danny Green’s shot always stood out to me. His elbow doesn’t look like it fully extends on release and always looks just a tad off. Love em tho!
2014 was something 🥺
Loved seeing them Destroy the Heat in the finals
Boris Diaw should've got the Finals MVP instead of Cry Leonard.
2013 4-3
2014 4-1
Hey weres kawhi
Wait Duncan was 38 when this happened? That's insane. The closest we got to that is lebron taking the Lakers to the semi finals also at 38. Pretty sick.
A team where everyone showed up and did their job
If the NBA got back to this style of basketball across ALL teams the games would be a lot more competitive and fun to watch.
Short answer, Kawhi Leonard.
GO SPURS GO
The pain of 2013 made 2014 so much sweeter. Any Spurs fan who went through 0.4, Manu Foul, etc knows the emotions. 213 everything was looking good for the Spurs. Parker's last minute shot over LeBron, Neal and Green barrage, etc. Then R.A. hits that 3. I still can't watch last minutes of 2013 game 6 in all honesty. Hehe 2014 was sweet I mentioned it was good enough to last me a decade. And now we got Wemby. Happy times!
2014 has an added bonus: disbanded the heatles.
It’s not Official till we hear Barkley scream: GINOBILI!!!!!
Duncan to a Lebron in his Prime with a Superteam trying to buy a ring: Thank u for letting me get one more… 😅
Revenge against a cheating superteam is sweet
For me , nobody can beat this team in a 7 game series , even the warriors or bulls
A real solid team, if ray Allen never made that crazy shot in 13 they would’ve won back 2 back
Kyrie Irving is by far the best nba player in history.
and they didn't put tony parker on top 75 list while putting cp0 and westbrick lol
my fave spurs team ever…and ive been a die hard fan since 1991…
Basketball coaches at every level need to show their players film of this 2014 Spurs team. Their passing, their unselfishness, their commitment to team basketball was unsurpassed. They definitely played the game the right way.