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Hopefully the carcasses of the cliff jumpers and doomsayers are all lying in the field being picked clean by vultures as we speak. This champion Spurs team deserve better fans than that rotten garbage.
We will comeback next year and do it again
Hopefully the carcasses of the cliff jumpers and doomsayers are all lying in the field being picked clean by vultures as we speak. This champion Spurs team deserve better fans than that rotten garbage.
The curse has been lifted.
No, it doesn't!
7 Times a man falls, 7 times he gets up. It took 7 years but the Spurs finally did it again.
It used to hurt. It doesn't any more. A le cures all wounds.
him.
timvp makes jean paul sartre seem like pharell williams
Gonna make this year's le run that much sweeter.
B2B 2015 and I won't ever think about 6 again, tbh.
We witnessed the greatest comeback and redemption stories we are bound to see in our lifetimes. It doesn't get any better than this....just amazing.
I put my money where my mouth was and made some decent coin off our Spurs win this season. Will probably be doubling down for next season
It still feels good.
Yeah I just fired up some more Finals/Celebration highlights - still feels real good man.
I feel Better than James Brown
impressive
It sure does!
Last year?
I don't need no stinkin' last year!
This year!
Bill Simmons has been writing about the topic of painful losses for about 15 years now. He wrote one of his best articles on the topic shortly before the Finals this year: http://grantland.com/features/nba-fi...-6-heat-spurs/
When I read that article, I felt gut-punched. Bill described the events of game 6 in such wrenchingly accurate detail - exactly as I remember it - that I felt devastation and dread for hours afterwards that it might happen again.
Now when I think of that awful sequence in 2013, I feel nothing. I am mentally annoyed that the Spurs lost the seemingly unloseable, but there is no negative emotional reaction any more, 2014's incredible redemption has wiped that all away. Thank you Spurs for (arguably) the greatest redemption story in the history of NBA basketball.
Bill Simmons has been writing about the topic of painful losses for about 15 years now. He wrote one of his best articles on the topic shortly before the Finals this year: http://grantland.com/features/nba-fi...-6-heat-spurs/
When I read that article, I felt gut-punched. Bill described the events of game 6 in such wrenchingly accurate detail - exactly as I remember it - that I felt devastation and dread for hours afterwards that it might happen again.
Now when I think of that awful sequence in 2013, I feel nothing. I am mentally annoyed that the Spurs lost the seemingly unloseable, but there is no negative emotional reaction any more, 2014's incredible redemption has wiped that all away. Thank you Spurs for (arguably) the greatest redemption story in the history of NBA basketball.
It is the greatest redemption story in NBA history, as well as the sweetest Spurs Championship victory ever.
It feels great to be a Spurs fan!
Simmons' prophetic conclusion to that article:
"And here’s how fast things can flip. Back in October 2003, the Red Sox choked away Game 7 in Yankee Stadium, one of the most demoralizing defeats in franchise history. It felt like something of a final straw for Boston fans. We’d be thinking about Grady Little’s mistake and Aaron Boone’s homer forever. The Baseball Gods hated us. It was official. We would live our entire lives, then croak, without ever seeing them win the whole thing. Twelve months later, we won the whole thing. Ten years later, the Boone Game doesn’t matter anymore. I never think about it.
If the Spurs beat Miami, Allen’s 3 stops haunting them — and if that’s not enough, we’ll remember San Antonio as the greatest franchise of the post-Jordan era."
Yup. Simmons makes a lot of predictions and gets a lot wrong, but when he gets it right he hits it out of the park.Simmons' prophetic conclusion to that article:
"And here’s how fast things can flip. Back in October 2003, the Red Sox choked away Game 7 in Yankee Stadium, one of the most demoralizing defeats in franchise history. It felt like something of a final straw for Boston fans. We’d be thinking about Grady Little’s mistake and Aaron Boone’s homer forever. The Baseball Gods hated us. It was official. We would live our entire lives, then croak, without ever seeing them win the whole thing. Twelve months later, we won the whole thing. Ten years later, the Boone Game doesn’t matter anymore. I never think about it.
If the Spurs beat Miami, Allen’s 3 stops haunting them — and if that’s not enough, we’ll remember San Antonio as the greatest franchise of the post-Jordan era."
I hope everyone reads Simmons' article because it is gold.
Perfect take.Bill Simmons has been writing about the topic of painful losses for about 15 years now. He wrote one of his best articles on the topic shortly before the Finals this year: http://grantland.com/features/nba-fi...-6-heat-spurs/
When I read that article, I felt gut-punched. Bill described the events of game 6 in such wrenchingly accurate detail - exactly as I remember it - that I felt devastation and dread for hours afterwards that it might happen again.
Now when I think of that awful sequence in 2013, I feel nothing. I am mentally annoyed that the Spurs lost the seemingly unloseable, but there is no negative emotional reaction any more, 2014's incredible redemption has wiped that all away. Thank you Spurs for (arguably) the greatest redemption story in the history of NBA basketball.
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