{"id":10199,"date":"2013-06-28T17:28:13","date_gmt":"2013-06-28T17:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/?p=10199"},"modified":"2013-11-27T04:50:46","modified_gmt":"2013-11-27T04:50:46","slug":"spurs-close-in-on-the-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/spurs-close-in-on-the-heat\/","title":{"rendered":"Spurs Close in on the Heat"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Sunday night the San Antonio Spurs<\/a> proved that if there’s a Big Three in the NBA, they’re in San Antonio, not Miami. If they can get just one more win, they won’t only prove that they’ve been the stronger team all along, but they’ll also continue on with their perfect record of 5 for 5 in the Finals. If the Heat loses the championship however, they’ll be just for 1 for 3 after predictions of multiple titles since acquiring LeBron James, Dwayne Wade, and Chris Bosch.<\/p>\n

Of the Spurs’ Big Three, it was Manu Ginobili that emerged as the hero in the 114-104 victory over the Heat<\/a> on Sunday night scoring 24 points and 10 assists. Not only did that help the Spurs go up in the NBA Finals, it also marked his highest-scoring game of the season. And for a season that hasn’t been a great one, that’s undoubtedly a relief for the shooting guard.<\/p>\n

But Ginobili wasn’t the only Spur to pitch into the win. Tony Parker put up 26 points on the board for the team, while Tim Duncan also put in a huge effort with 17 points and 12 rebounds.<\/p>\n

The Heat’s Big Three weren’t nearly successful, with LeBron James and Dwayne Wade putting up 25 points each, which just wasn’t enough. If they can’t pull out a win in the Finals this year, it will put them at just one win out of their last three Finals appearances.<\/p>\n

The Spurs will try to end the series on Tuesday night, when the Miami Heat will host Game 6 of the NBA Finals<\/a>. If the Heat can extend their stay, and continue on for the win, it will be the first Game 7 in the Finals since 2010, when the Lakers beat out the Celtics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Sunday night the San Antonio Spurs proved that if there’s a Big Three in the NBA, they’re in San Antonio, not Miami. If they can get just one more win, they won’t only prove that they’ve been the stronger team all along, but they’ll also continue on with their perfect record of 5 for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[23,2786,5],"class_list":["post-10199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nba","tag-miami-heat","tag-nba","tag-san-antonio-spurs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10199"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10453,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10199\/revisions\/10453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}