In the end, it didn't matter. If the Spurs had won the le in 2013, they wouldn't have had that fire in their belly the next season, and would almost certainly have been eliminated by either Dallas in the first round or OKC in the WCF.
The heartbreak of 2013 made the championship in 2014 that much sweeter. The Spurs were on a mission, and it showed. The Spurs' performance in games 3, 4, and 5 of the 2014 NBA Finals was some of the best basketball ever played by anyone, anywhere, in the history of the sport.
