Speaker 1: That shot was the most biggest shot in the world.
Speaker 1: To this day, I think about that shot when I
Speaker 1: see him. I just see that replay. That's what you know,
Speaker 1: that one shot. That's what you call some mother excuse me, confidence. Confidence,
Speaker 1: and that's what I how I played anything I do, music, golf, basketball, whatever.
Speaker 1: I know, I'm good, I know I'm great, but my
Speaker 1: confident level is just next level. The way he got
Speaker 1: that ball and just made that shot.
Speaker 2: Come on, James outside, three in the air, off the
Speaker 2: rimbow gun, screep out ball, seven seconds to play, out
Speaker 2: of three to the corner shot.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was legendary.
Speaker 3: Ray Allen's three pointer that sent Game six of the
Speaker 3: twenty thirteen Finals to overtime, where the Heat would eventually
Speaker 3: save their season, was one of those you remember where
Speaker 3: you were when it happened moments, But for the teams involved,
Speaker 3: the feelings after Game six were just as vivid, and
Speaker 3: they would spill over onto the floor for Game seven,
Speaker 3: when another confident jump shot would close the deal for Miami.
Speaker 3: Welcome back to four years of Heat. I'm your host,
Speaker 3: Israel Gutierrez and this is episode seven the peak. Ray
Speaker 3: Allen described the reaction to hitting a big three point
Speaker 3: shot as a bomb going off. The Spurs entered Game
Speaker 3: seven as if Allan's three pointer was a literal explosion.
Speaker 4: Mentally, they were tattered.
Speaker 3: You could almost hear it in Mano Genobili's voice after
Speaker 3: the game.
Speaker 5: We were a few seconds away from winning the championship,
Speaker 5: and we let it go.
Speaker 3: There was just one off day between Game six and seven,
Speaker 3: and Spurs coach Greg Popovich tried to bring the team
Speaker 3: together for a dinner that would help them regroup. Mono
Speaker 3: Genobili was particularly hard on himself after only scoring nine
Speaker 3: points and missing one of the late free throws that
Speaker 3: helped Miami recover. Matt Bonner remembers how difficult it was
Speaker 3: for everyone to shake the sense of loss.
Speaker 6: I remember after the game that night, it was awful
Speaker 6: like it started actually, it started out awful, like it
Speaker 6: was just such a feeling of defeat, you know, a
Speaker 6: crushing feeling. I remember Manu was really being really hard
Speaker 6: on himself because he didn't have the greatest game. I
Speaker 6: don't know how what I could compare it to metaphorically,
Speaker 6: everybody's really upset. It felt like, all right, we're gonna
Speaker 6: lose by fifty. In Game seven, like we got nothing
Speaker 6: left mentally, psychologically, We're just completely spent and defeated. And
Speaker 6: you know, in typical coach Pop fashion, he loves dinners
Speaker 6: in the community, you know, healing over food, and I
Speaker 6: remember we went to an Italian place. It had a
Speaker 6: really long team dinner, and by the end of the
Speaker 6: dinner we were kind of like refilled the cup. All Right,
Speaker 6: we still have another game to play, We still have
Speaker 6: another crack at this and everybody was feeling a lot better.
Speaker 3: The series had already taken everything out of Bonner physically,
Speaker 3: as he wasn't even an option in the season ending game.
Speaker 4: The Spurs were noticeably off.
Speaker 3: Jenobili managed something of a bounce back effort with eighteen points,
Speaker 3: but the rest of the group had no spring. Danny Green,
Speaker 3: who set the record for most threes in a final
Speaker 3: series two games earlier, was zapped of his powers, missing
Speaker 3: eleven of twelve shots.
Speaker 4: Tim Duncan tried.
Speaker 3: To erase the memory of Game six with twenty four points,
Speaker 3: twelve rebounds, four steals in a block, but there was
Speaker 3: no recovering, not with just a day between games.
Speaker 4: Not in the same building.
Speaker 3: Mario Chalmers was on the winning side, and he believed
Speaker 3: even his team was running on empty.
Speaker 7: Like I still to this day, I say, Game six
Speaker 7: is probably the hardest game I ever had to play
Speaker 7: it in my life. And it was just what it
Speaker 7: took to come back, what it took, like the mental
Speaker 7: part of it, the actual playing part of it. That
Speaker 7: game drained a lot of a lot of players that game.
Speaker 7: A lot of people was emotionally drained and physically drained
Speaker 7: from that game. So I remember when we made in
Speaker 7: the locker room, it was just like, you know, we
Speaker 7: really did that, Like we really came back and put
Speaker 7: ourselves in this moment right here against you know, some
Speaker 7: of the great so Tim Duncan's a Hall of Famer,
Speaker 7: My New Hall of Famer, Rey Papovica Hall of Famer,
Speaker 7: Tony hall of Famer. So it was kind of like
Speaker 7: like to be able to do that against those Caliburton
Speaker 7: quality of guys, It's like, you know, we really just
Speaker 7: did something special in that Game six. So let's not
Speaker 7: take this for game Let's not make this Game six
Speaker 7: one of the greatest games to lose in Game seven
Speaker 7: and not make this a championship worth happening. So that
Speaker 7: mindset was just leave it all on the line, this
Speaker 7: game seven, this is what you this is what you
Speaker 7: built for. This what you play for is these moments
Speaker 7: right here.
Speaker 3: It was actually the game six moments set'll be remembered
Speaker 3: as the most exciting, with Allen's shot replaying for eternity.
Speaker 3: It's been ten years since that shot, and maybe twenty
Speaker 3: years from now people will incorrectly remember it as a
Speaker 3: series winning shot in Game seven instead of the shot
Speaker 3: that tied Game six. But it might as well be
Speaker 3: remembered that way, because losing Game seven for Miami wasn't
Speaker 3: an option. The sports gods couldn't possibly be that cruel.
Speaker 3: Jackie McMullin had seen something similar before, working as a
Speaker 3: reporter in the nineteen eighty six World Series. She was
Speaker 3: waiting by the Red Sox clubhouse, preparing to interview Boston
Speaker 3: pitcher Bruce Hurst, who looked like he'd be named MVP
Speaker 3: of the series, as the Socks were leading the series
Speaker 3: and Game six by two runs in the tenth inning.
Speaker 3: As the wait for Hurst grew oddly long, McMullen made
Speaker 3: it back out to the field in time to see
Speaker 3: the score was now tied and New York Mets batter
Speaker 3: Mookie Wilson hit a ground bow that would slide under
Speaker 3: the glove of first baseman Bill Buckner and into the outfield,
Speaker 3: allowing the Mets to score a third run in the
Speaker 3: inning and extend the series. The way most people remember it,
Speaker 3: that Buckner play alone cost the Red Sox the World Series.
Speaker 3: In reality, the Socks had an extended chance to recover,
Speaker 3: but really, how could they.
Speaker 4: Here's Jackie.
Speaker 8: People remember what they want to remember. So the Red
Speaker 8: Sox lose that game and there's a rain delay the
Speaker 8: next day, they have to wait a whole nother day.
Speaker 8: But you knew they there was just no way they
Speaker 8: could win Game seven. It was just impossible to happen.
Speaker 3: The Mets won Game seven, forever framing Buckner as a
Speaker 3: goat the negative version of that word. The Heat would
Speaker 3: approach Game seven with a goat of their own. You
Speaker 3: know which version of that word.
Speaker 4: I mean.
Speaker 3: Lebron James may have needed Ray Allen to extend the series,
Speaker 3: but he wasn't going to rely on anyone else to
Speaker 3: win it. It was the most statistically odd game of
Speaker 3: the series. Game sevens traditionally are, and following the emotional
Speaker 3: roller coaster of Game six, you could almost predict this
Speaker 3: game would be a strange one.
Speaker 5: One game on our home floor to bring home another championship. Man,
Speaker 5: This is everything that we worked for all season long,
Speaker 5: all the sacrifices we'd made to each other, Dog every
Speaker 5: single day, Dog, every single minute. They say, hard work payoff, man.
Speaker 5: So let's make that statement become true. All right, and.
Speaker 9: Here we go in seven of the finals.
Speaker 3: In fact, the game six hero wouldn't score a point
Speaker 3: in Game seven, but Alan had already seen what his
Speaker 3: Game six shot did for his teammates, and based on
Speaker 3: their reactions, he had a strong feeling they'd complete the deal.
Speaker 10: There was something wrong with me. I think it was
Speaker 10: my finger, Like my finger like I don't know, like
Speaker 10: I've broke an attendon. So it like kind of it
Speaker 10: went limp. So I had to get this splint on it.
Speaker 10: So for longest time, I couldn't. I couldn't pick my
Speaker 10: finger up. It was it looked like it just the nerve.
Speaker 10: I don't know what happened to me. So I was
Speaker 10: in the training room before practicing. You know, this was
Speaker 10: going to the game seven. We will walk in. I
Speaker 10: was in front training room. All the guys were in
Speaker 10: the in the locker room. I walk in and Mike
Speaker 10: Miller goes there he is, and you know, everybody was
Speaker 10: in there, and it was like the ultimate sign of respects,
Speaker 10: you know. And later on he says he I was like,
Speaker 10: I told him, I said, Bro, you hit a shot
Speaker 10: with your shoe off. He goes, Bro, if you didn't
Speaker 10: hit that shot, we wouldn't be here today.
Speaker 8: And I just.
Speaker 10: Remember just feeling, you know, such a great feeling to
Speaker 10: know that you did your job when your team needed
Speaker 10: you to do your job, you know, to do something
Speaker 10: and and it's more than your job. It's going to
Speaker 10: love beyond hit and doing something that you know, put
Speaker 10: your team in the situation to win a game where
Speaker 10: you you you gain the most, the utmost of respect
Speaker 10: from all your peers. That that is one of the
Speaker 10: greatest feelings and one of the reasons that you play
Speaker 10: this game to be able to be relied upon, to
Speaker 10: be you know, buy your team, you know, buy the organization.
Speaker 3: Game seven was a win for the organization, but Lebron
Speaker 3: James would have to do most of the heavy lifting.
Speaker 3: That's because Allen wasn't the only scoreless Heat player. Mike
Speaker 3: Miller started and didn't score in nineteen minutes. Chris Bosh
Speaker 3: played twenty eight scoreless minutes and was in some early
Speaker 3: foul trouble. Even ultra confident Mario Chalmers was one of
Speaker 3: seven from three point range in the game. There were
Speaker 3: three constants in this one, however, Dwayne Wade's mid range
Speaker 3: jumper was on. He hit eleven field goals for his
Speaker 3: twenty three points.
Speaker 2: Age seven is tied.
Speaker 11: James kicks it out, Wig fags across the lads, flicks.
Speaker 12: It up, it in.
Speaker 3: So was Lebron's jumper. He hit five threes in that game.
Speaker 2: James, we'll try another three bucks it in. Lebron James
Speaker 2: four to three pointer up the game. James again, Look
Speaker 2: how far off they're playing. He'll try it again. Jis
Speaker 2: come Labron, James Murting.
Speaker 3: The Spurs play and there was one bench contributor. After
Speaker 3: not scoring in double figures in his first six games,
Speaker 3: Shane Battier exploded for six three pointers and eight tries
Speaker 3: for eighteen critical points.
Speaker 2: James open up top Chalmers, Battier for three.
Speaker 3: The only other points off the bench were three from
Speaker 3: Chris Anderson. Here's Chalmers on how rewarding the finish was
Speaker 3: for Battier.
Speaker 7: I felt great for shake. You know, Shane's a great guy,
Speaker 7: great dude, great person, and it was just to see him,
Speaker 7: you know, get beat up by David Wes, get beat
Speaker 7: up by Roy Heiro, get beat up by Kendrick Perkins
Speaker 7: and KG. It was just like, like, you basically helped
Speaker 7: us get to where we are just by taking blows
Speaker 7: and getting beat up. Just putting your body on the
Speaker 7: line six right from that in a closeout game after
Speaker 7: what you just went through. It just shows like the
Speaker 7: grown upness he had about It's just like, yeah.
Speaker 13: You can't.
Speaker 7: You can keep beating me up, keep beating me up,
Speaker 7: but you're not gonna get me down. And I'm still
Speaker 7: gonna be here.
Speaker 14: If you need me.
Speaker 11: James kicks it out in the corner. Battier puts it
Speaker 11: in five for five.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it was like we were in the NBA for
Speaker 7: a reason. No matter if you're a defender or whatever
Speaker 7: your role is, you're still a basketball player at the
Speaker 7: end of the day. And Shane showed day like, I'm
Speaker 7: one of the greatest defenders to play this game. But
Speaker 7: I can also shoot, and I can also make big buckets,
Speaker 7: and you can also count me in.
Speaker 3: Those moments Among the most memorable images of that game
Speaker 3: seven were the fist pumps from Battier after his fifth
Speaker 3: and six threes of the game, both of them crucial
Speaker 3: in a contest where neither team had the energy to
Speaker 3: pull away.
Speaker 15: Yeah the floor, Lebron step through the Battier.
Speaker 7: Course three, got up, Battier dropped down down.
Speaker 3: Neither team would score more than eighteen points in the
Speaker 3: first quarter. Neither team would lead by more than six
Speaker 3: in the second half. Here's Battier.
Speaker 16: It's a weird game. And if I watch up you know,
Speaker 16: obviously I've watched it multiple times and it was one
Speaker 16: of those games where it's like it just crap happens
Speaker 16: and the ball just didn't find CB, And you know,
Speaker 16: Lebron obviously was stounding at d you wit had twenty something,
Speaker 16: But it was never a point where it's like, cbe
Speaker 16: we need more from you. Like we knew CB was
Speaker 16: battling Tim Duncan. We knew he was. He was unbelievable
Speaker 16: the pick and roll, uh, you know, blocking shots, and
Speaker 16: so it was never like, oh, CV, come out, pick
Speaker 16: up your game. No, he was awesome that game. He
Speaker 16: just didn't score, which is which is bizarre, but he
Speaker 16: played like an awesome game for someone who went scoreless.
Speaker 3: In a late timeout, with the Spurs summoning every last
Speaker 3: ounce of energy, Greg Popovich reminded his team how close
Speaker 3: they still were to a title.
Speaker 2: Nice, it's the last game of the year, the last
Speaker 2: two teams standards.
Speaker 3: Why everything out there?
Speaker 9: They got talent.
Speaker 5: We got to beat him with all of us.
Speaker 3: In the final minute, with the Heat leading by just
Speaker 3: two points, the Spurs scrambled to secure rebound off of
Speaker 3: Battier missed three In the caaotic transition back to the
Speaker 3: Spurs end, Battier found himself defending Duncan near the rim.
Speaker 3: With Battier on his back, Duncan took a dribble and
Speaker 3: swept across the lane for a short hook shot He's
Speaker 3: hit thousands of times. He missed the hook shot, then
Speaker 3: gently tipped the rebound that he easily reached over Battier.
Speaker 4: He missed that also.
Speaker 11: Under a minute relating dream nearly lost it back to
Speaker 11: Janaugley inside Duncan across lane.
Speaker 4: Duncan misses the.
Speaker 2: Techno god in pass rebound.
Speaker 4: He clinging to it.
Speaker 12: Two point lyad and a point blank missed by Duncan,
Speaker 12: and then the follow time out, mining.
Speaker 3: Duncan slammed the floor as the Heat dribbled the ball
Speaker 3: up the court and called the time out. Six years
Speaker 3: earlier in the finals, Duncan was all smiles, thanking Lebron
Speaker 3: in a not so private moment afterward for allowing him
Speaker 3: to have that championship before James inevitably took over the league.
Speaker 8: Job La, I love how you're fifteen this name, say.
Speaker 15: That with my stay that we're gonna drive these guys
Speaker 15: as it's gonna be your league in a little while too.
Speaker 4: But I appreciate you giving my sister back.
Speaker 3: In those two thousand and seven finals, Popovich took advantage
Speaker 3: of Lebron's unreliable outside shooting and swept the Cavaliers. Fast
Speaker 3: forward back to this Game seven, with the Heat leading
Speaker 3: by just two and a chance to seal a second
Speaker 3: consecutive championship, effectively doing as Duncan predicted in two thousand
Speaker 3: and seven, with less than forty seconds remaining, Lebron James
Speaker 3: took the inbound pass and faced the defense of Kawhi Leonard.
Speaker 3: The Spurs weren't switching defenders on Lebron, so Kawhi would
Speaker 3: have to work through any screens to stick to him.
Speaker 3: James used a Chalmers screen and got barely enough space
Speaker 3: to square up from nineteen feet just beyond the right
Speaker 3: edge of the free throw line, with Leonard trying desperately
Speaker 3: to contest the attempt. After initially playing James for the drive,
Speaker 3: as was the game plan the entire series, James rose
Speaker 3: up for a championship level dagger that was yet another
Speaker 3: example of his growth. It was the exact shot Greg
Speaker 3: Popovich had been giving Lebron for a decade plus.
Speaker 11: James pulls up, puts it inad flow, point.
Speaker 2: Ly time out sad it Telio.
Speaker 3: Lebron snatched his second steal of the game in the
Speaker 3: ensuing possession, forcing the Spurs to foul and sending the
Speaker 3: crowd into something of a controlled frenzy. Remember, the Heat
Speaker 3: had just come back in stunning fashion in game six,
Speaker 3: so there was a respectful fear. Not even the gold
Speaker 3: ropes meant as much as they used to. But the
Speaker 3: clock would eventually tick down to zero's with the Heat
Speaker 3: still leading, and a second Larry O'Brien Trophy would now
Speaker 3: be re routed in the Heat's direction.
Speaker 6: It never gets old.
Speaker 13: Having up parade for the third time down Bess.
Speaker 3: Stain, Lebron would win his second straight Finals MVP trophy,
Speaker 3: leading the Heat in minutes by almost seventy game and
Speaker 3: leading them in points, rebounds, assists, and steals also by
Speaker 3: fairly wide margins.
Speaker 12: The twenty thirteen Bill Russell NBA Finals Most Valuable Player
Speaker 12: for the second straight Finals Lebron.
Speaker 3: James Miami was getting used to this feeling too, And
Speaker 3: in this moment in time, everything that was promised and
Speaker 3: that Rockstar celebration was reaching fulfillment. It was as good
Speaker 3: as they'll ever feel on a basketball court together.
Speaker 14: We had to give everything we had and we did it.
Speaker 14: Ain't got none left.
Speaker 3: James, Wade and Bosh were repeat champions.
Speaker 5: It was the overcome of all the challenges that we had,
Speaker 5: all the hallwork that we put into at all the sacrifices,
Speaker 5: all the blusswa and tears toward the whole season. Man,
Speaker 5: And this is the way you want to be rewarded.
Speaker 14: Lebron's missed to do whatever it takes, and his knack
Speaker 14: now for making big plays and big shots in big games.
Speaker 14: Can't nobody say nothing about it. He scored thirty seven points.
Speaker 14: He grabs twelve rebounds, he dished all seven saysts.
Speaker 15: He guards Tony Parker.
Speaker 14: He is today's greatest player for us. You know, it's
Speaker 14: about doing what we came together do and that is
Speaker 14: to win championships. And we've been able to do that
Speaker 14: and now we are part of history.
Speaker 13: Man. Champagne was cold burned, but it's just a sweet
Speaker 13: feeling back in that position again. It was like deja vu.
Speaker 13: Everybody was just hugging, telling everybody we love him, man,
Speaker 13: And you know, that's what it's about.
Speaker 3: For the role players like Mario Chalmers and Adonis Haslam,
Speaker 3: their names will always be linked to winning at this level. Also,
Speaker 3: it's not just superstars who create legacies in this association
Speaker 3: that's been around for more than seventy five years.
Speaker 4: The way we want it.
Speaker 7: It was definitely one of those like, okay, this is
Speaker 7: this solidify us as a team, you know, because we
Speaker 7: did this together as a team to come back. It
Speaker 7: wasn't Broad hitting this shot, It wasn't d Wade doing this,
Speaker 7: It was she Begett the rebound, Ray hit a shot.
Speaker 7: I had twenty points that game, Like everybody did their
Speaker 7: part for us to win, and I think that just
Speaker 7: showed us, like, you know, as a team, one of
Speaker 7: the best teams ever do this.
Speaker 17: Like, at the end of the day, the respect that
Speaker 17: I have in this league and around here is because
Speaker 17: I won. It's not because I'm a nice guy. It's
Speaker 17: not because I'm the oldest guy in the league. It
Speaker 17: has nothing to do with that. As much as these
Speaker 17: people in this organization loved me, as much as the
Speaker 17: people in this city loved me. If I didn't win,
Speaker 17: I would not be here. If I didn't win, I
Speaker 17: would not have the respect. If I didn't win, I
Speaker 17: would not have the keys to the city of Miami
Speaker 17: and to.
Speaker 4: Be able to do and move and influence and impact.
Speaker 4: It's all built off winning.
Speaker 7: Ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 2: Let's raise the two thirteen NBA champion Chip Manner.
Speaker 3: By the time the twenty thirteen to fourteen season began,
Speaker 3: the Heat had effectively squeezed the fight out of.
Speaker 4: The NBA's Eastern Conference.
Speaker 3: With the exception of the Pacers, who were a bit
Speaker 3: more dynamic thanks to the continued emergence of Paul George
Speaker 3: and the development of a former mister Basketball in New York,
Speaker 3: Lance Stevenson, there wasn't a ton of competition on their
Speaker 3: side of the standings, it was the West that looked
Speaker 3: like it would cook up a true rival for the
Speaker 3: two time defending champs. The Western Conference had seven fifty
Speaker 3: win teams that regular season, compared to just two Miami
Speaker 3: and Indiana in the East. Kevin Durant would win the
Speaker 3: MVP Award for the fifty nine win thunder Damian Lillard
Speaker 3: and LaMarcus Aldridge had the Trailblazers rolling, The Clippers had
Speaker 3: Chris Paul Blake, Griffin, Andre Jordan and were now coached
Speaker 3: by Doc Rivers. And the Warriors won fifty one games
Speaker 3: and were one year away from taking over the league
Speaker 3: for their own stretch. Then there were those darn San
Speaker 3: Antonio Spurs, who dominated the regular season to the tune
Speaker 3: of sixty two wins each win, both chipping away at
Speaker 3: the pain of the previous finals and sharpening their edge
Speaker 3: for a potential finals rematch with the Heat.
Speaker 12: San Antonio's won thirteen in a row, Spurs fifteenth consecutive win,
Speaker 12: and the Spurs with eighteen straight wins San Antonio, They're
Speaker 12: ten deep, and they play a system and play with
Speaker 12: the discipline.
Speaker 4: That is just remarkable.
Speaker 3: Miami, on the other hand, still had the game's most
Speaker 3: feared weapons somehow finding ways to improve his game. But
Speaker 3: the Heat weren't playing the game on the same razor's
Speaker 3: edge that the Spurs were this entire season. Here's Battier.
Speaker 16: Look for that team, it was three years of just
Speaker 16: so much tensity. Every single game on the road, every
Speaker 16: single game at home. It was an event. And I
Speaker 16: sense that that last year just we weren't willing to
Speaker 16: do everything it took to stay at that level. And
Speaker 16: he just can't cheat the championship, right, And so it
Speaker 16: wasn't like anything malicious, but just like you know, maybe
Speaker 16: running back on defense or diving for a loose ball.
Speaker 16: Things we would have done, you know, one more pass
Speaker 16: on offense, things we would have done without thinking the
Speaker 16: previous couple of years. We just didn't do it. And
Speaker 16: we had enough of those plays where that's the difference
Speaker 16: in a little bit of slippage, you know, answering the equation,
Speaker 16: and that was a difference. That was a difference.
Speaker 3: Unlike in twenty eleven when the team added Battier, or
Speaker 3: in twenty twelve when Ray Allen joined Miami, there wasn't
Speaker 3: a big name addition to the thirteen to fourteen roster.
Speaker 3: Sharpshooter Rishard Lewis would join the team at thirty four
Speaker 3: years old. Michael Beasley would have another run with the
Speaker 3: Heat after he was one of the pieces traded away
Speaker 3: when Miami acquired James and Boss. There was even a
Speaker 3: heartwarming reclamation project and former number one pick Greg Odin,
Speaker 3: as the search for competent big men continued to be
Speaker 3: a constant subplot for this Heat team. Odin's NBA return
Speaker 3: from a devastating knee condition only lasted twenty three games
Speaker 3: with Miami, and the only real youth on the roster
Speaker 3: was at point guard with Chalmers and his backup Norris Cole.
Speaker 3: Brian Windhorst of ESPN regularly had his attention fixed on
Speaker 3: Lebron James, and he recognized this was a Heat team
Speaker 3: that would rely on James more than any of the
Speaker 3: previous The.
Speaker 9: Free agency they did sign and bring in were much older,
Speaker 9: and so they just they didn't have a freshness to
Speaker 9: the roster that you kind of need. You know, the
Speaker 9: game isn't designed for the same team to go to
Speaker 9: the finals four years in a row. Your team kind
Speaker 9: of breaks down, and so the Heat were right at
Speaker 9: that stage. Dwayne Wade's knee had been bothering him throughout
Speaker 9: the entire season. It was being held together other with
Speaker 9: you know, therapy, tape, stretching, and some sort of painkillers
Speaker 9: he can get through. He was not at his best,
Speaker 9: and so they were really in a state where they
Speaker 9: could be taken advantage of.
Speaker 3: Lebron certainly wasn't breaking down. He set a career high
Speaker 3: in field goal percentage for the second straight season and
Speaker 3: shot a career best sixty two percent.
Speaker 4: From two point range.
Speaker 3: His rookie year, Lebron shot forty four percent from inside
Speaker 3: the arc. In a March third game in Miami against
Speaker 3: the Charlotte Hornets, despite playing with a mask on to
Speaker 3: protect a broken nose, Lebron would show just how dominant
Speaker 3: he could be, scoring a career best sixty one points,
Speaker 3: which included eight three pointers.
Speaker 2: The first sixty point game in Miami Heat history. You know,
Speaker 2: Lebron very rarely is satisfying, but then right now with
Speaker 2: a top coming.
Speaker 7: Off, he's he knows he's turned off.
Speaker 12: He's keeping alove.
Speaker 7: Of Irock and turned the two thirty years of Heat
Speaker 7: basketball to the highest scorer again in franchise history.
Speaker 4: Would was sixty one.
Speaker 12: With mud Chester.
Speaker 3: By the time the season ended, however, it would appear
Speaker 3: obvious Lebron would have to carry this group even more
Speaker 3: than he had the previous postseason, even though James was
Speaker 3: at a stage in his career where he didn't need
Speaker 3: that much assistance. Wade and Bosch would both average their
Speaker 3: fewest points since their rookie seasons. The Heat's depth would
Speaker 3: be headlined by Battier Anderson, Alan and Lewis, who ranged
Speaker 3: from age thirty four to thirty eight.
Speaker 4: Despite all of that, the playoff.
Speaker 3: Run to the finals might have been the easiest for
Speaker 3: the Heat, as that beat down Eastern Conference didn't nearly
Speaker 3: have as much fight left. A first round sweep of
Speaker 3: the Bobcats followed by a five game win over the
Speaker 3: sixth seeded Brooklyn Nets left Miami and Indiana facing off
Speaker 3: in a second straight conference finals. The Pacers did the
Speaker 3: same as the previous postseason, splitting the first two games
Speaker 3: in Miami and taking home court advantage back to Indianapolis.
Speaker 3: But the drama wouldn't really last in this series. The
Speaker 3: most made for TV moment came when Lance Stevenson, who
Speaker 3: played a somewhat reckless style and had already attempted to
Speaker 3: irritate by getting involved in the Heat.
Speaker 4: Huddle decided to try a softer.
Speaker 3: Approach to bothering Lebron during a stoppage and play. In
Speaker 3: Game five, with Lebron next to him, hands on knees,
Speaker 3: Stevenson leaned over and softly blue into Lebron's left ear.
Speaker 3: After a moment to comprehend what had just happened, Lebron
Speaker 3: smiled with a look of slight disbelief blowing in the.
Speaker 2: Ear of Lebron James as James reaction, he can't believe it.
Speaker 3: The Heat eventually disposed of the Pacers in six games
Speaker 3: to advance to their fourth straight NBA Finals.
Speaker 2: Well the fourth consecutive year, the Miami Heat are heading
Speaker 2: to the NBA Finals, the first team of twenty seven
Speaker 2: years to accomplish defeat.
Speaker 3: And there were signs of growth happening around this team
Speaker 3: as well. Coverage of the Heat had calmed down a
Speaker 3: few levels from the insane fervor of the first two seasons.
Speaker 3: Lebron James had done enough to prove he was indeed
Speaker 3: one of the best players to ever play the sport,
Speaker 3: making criticizing him to the level that many did seem
Speaker 3: a bit silly. In retrospect, there was probably no better
Speaker 3: example of how different the conversations were around Lebron in
Speaker 3: the Heat than that Game five against the Pacers. It'll
Speaker 3: be remembered for Stevenson being an irritant and for the
Speaker 3: Pacers staving off elimination for one game with twenty four
Speaker 3: year old Paul George dropping thirty seven points. But does
Speaker 3: anyone remember Lebron also scored his playoff career low of
Speaker 3: seven points in that game. He was in foul trouble
Speaker 3: most of the game, playing only twenty four minutes and
Speaker 3: going two for ten from the field in a closeout game.
Speaker 3: If he had that exact same game two years earlier,
Speaker 3: it would have been an indictment of his ability to
Speaker 3: perform in difficult settings. Instead, it's merely a footnote, and
Speaker 3: Lebron has reached double figures in scoring in every playoff
Speaker 3: game he's played since, one hundred and thirty of them
Speaker 3: and probably counting the next series. However, wouldn't allow for
Speaker 3: that kind of less than stellar play from James. In fact,
Speaker 3: the Heat would have to be sharper than ever if
Speaker 3: they were to defeat a Spurs team That would prove
Speaker 3: to be Miami's ultimate rivals in this four year stretch.
Speaker 6: Oh God, let's go.
Speaker 15: Le's get this party started.
Speaker 1: Go course call, Let's go baby, Let's beat the Heat.
Speaker 8: Let's go.
Speaker 9: Wow, it's a finals rematch.
Speaker 2: You're in twenty fourteen with the Miami Heat and looking
Speaker 2: to become the first to three peat since the Kobe
Speaker 2: shack Lakers.
Speaker 3: If you thought the Heat were determined the season after
Speaker 3: their loss to the Mavericks in the finals, what Miami
Speaker 3: did to the Spurs in twenty thirteen was so devastating
Speaker 3: it might have created the most determined team in NBA history. That,
Speaker 3: of course, sounds like hyperbole for a measurement that can
Speaker 3: never actually be taken, but it's hard to argue with
Speaker 3: the result, and as far as the Heat concerned, it
Speaker 3: didn't feel like an exaggeration. These Spurs were so ready
Speaker 3: for the rematch after sixty two wins and playoff series
Speaker 3: wins over the Mavericks, Blazers, and Thunder that Mario Chalmers
Speaker 3: joked there might have been a spygate situation happening in
Speaker 3: this series.
Speaker 7: I'll say this, San Antonio looked like they spin every
Speaker 7: day into that moment. Watching Game six and watching the
Speaker 7: whole final series, like everything that we planned on doing,
Speaker 7: they knew what we were going to do. They it
Speaker 7: was a step ahead. So I take my hand off
Speaker 7: to them, and it was like they had to bug
Speaker 7: our practice or something. They had to be and practice
Speaker 7: with us.
Speaker 4: It's like who was doing.
Speaker 7: It's just the way they played us and the way
Speaker 7: they was on all of our adjustments on everything that
Speaker 7: we did. It was just like kind of like we
Speaker 7: didn't switch our game plan. We thought the same game
Speaker 7: plan that from the previous year. It worked the next year.
Speaker 3: In truth, there probably wasn't a game plan that could
Speaker 3: have slowed these Spurs. Unlike the twenty eleven finals, where
Speaker 3: you could argue Eric Spolster got out coached by Rick Carlisle,
Speaker 3: or that the Heat would have won if Lebron had
Speaker 3: just played anything like his normal self, there wasn't much
Speaker 3: more either could have done to counter san Antonio.
Speaker 4: This time.
Speaker 3: The two time defending champs were still living the dream.
Speaker 3: The Spurs were fueled by nightmares. Here's Matt Bonner.
Speaker 6: It felt like one of those things that would haunt
Speaker 6: your dreams forever unless we came back and won it
Speaker 6: the next year. It was like everybody used that as motivation.
Speaker 6: Like you always hear these sports movies and books and stories,
Speaker 6: you got to overcome adversity. That's all we all knew.
Speaker 6: We all knew that. We knew like, all right, this
Speaker 6: is adversity. This is going to make us stronger. We
Speaker 6: just need to use it in the right way. And
Speaker 6: I think if you ask anybody on that team from
Speaker 6: twenty thirteen who was on the team the following year
Speaker 6: in twenty fourteen, it was like it was like the
Speaker 6: Blues Brothers. We were on a mission from God, like
Speaker 6: we are we are going to get back there, and
Speaker 6: we are going to make this right so that the
Speaker 6: rest of our life we don't have to have that
Speaker 6: feeling in our gut every time the twenty thirteen finals
Speaker 6: comes up in conversation.
Speaker 3: Jackie McMullin spent time with the Spurs following the twenty
Speaker 3: thirteen fourteen season and wrote a story for ESPN documenting
Speaker 3: their journey from one finals experience against Miami to the next.
Speaker 3: Players describe the pain they felt for the twenty thirteen
Speaker 3: finals and how it affected them.
Speaker 8: I think they were all just like what in fact,
Speaker 8: well after the fact. I remember Monogolobi tell me it
Speaker 8: was the worst summer of my life after they lost
Speaker 8: set series. In fact, it was the only summer he
Speaker 8: didn't play for the Argentinian national team. He's like, I
Speaker 8: got to go home and get myself right and come
Speaker 8: back and fix this because it's my fault. You know,
Speaker 8: everybody like great players, that's what they always say, It's
Speaker 8: my fault. What can I do to make sure this
Speaker 8: never happens again.
Speaker 3: The Spurs, perhaps taking a page from the Heats book,
Speaker 3: held their training camp at an Air Force academy similar
Speaker 3: to Miami in twenty ten. It was the academy where
Speaker 3: Spurs coach Greg Popovich played basketball.
Speaker 4: And it earned his degree.
Speaker 3: But what Spurs forward Boris Diao remembers more vividly was
Speaker 3: a meeting more effective than the setting of that training camp.
Speaker 3: It was the film session that occurred right before they
Speaker 3: left for the Air Force Academy.
Speaker 15: We thought we were going to get killed in that
Speaker 15: Air Force base pre season, but I actually know it
Speaker 15: was actually a good atmosphere and everything. And the main
Speaker 15: thing that I remember is the first day that we
Speaker 15: started training camp and we actually in San Antonio before
Speaker 15: going to the base. We go back to the film room,
Speaker 15: and we watched the game. We watched the game six
Speaker 15: and the game seven, and I think we watched the
Speaker 15: whole second half probably if I remember correctly, so not
Speaker 15: just the last second of the game. And the idea
Speaker 15: was attention to details that if we could avoid many mistakes,
Speaker 15: so not just the last second of the game, it
Speaker 15: wouldn't have go that far the game, it wouldn't have
Speaker 15: got to the last second, and to the possibility of
Speaker 15: Miami making a three at the last second. So we
Speaker 15: based this whole season twenty fourteen thirteen fourteen of taking
Speaker 15: care of details and be paying attention and try to
Speaker 15: make as the least mistake as possible.
Speaker 3: Well, the Spurs were encouraging their aging veterans to play
Speaker 3: such refined basketball that it approached perfection. The Miami Heat
Speaker 3: were perfectly satisfied, relying on Lebron James.
Speaker 4: Here's battier.
Speaker 16: We got to the Spurs. We just for a tired
Speaker 16: team was tired, just tired. I was tired of each other,
Speaker 16: tired of the grind. And when we lost, we knew
Speaker 16: that they were so hungry. We couldn't match. We couldn't
Speaker 16: match their hunger. They were so hurt, so hungry from
Speaker 16: the year before that we could not match their edge,
Speaker 16: but we put.
Speaker 5: Ourselves in a position of the people where we want
Speaker 5: to get them, and.
Speaker 15: We're here now, so make it count.
Speaker 5: So every game is the game seven. It treated that way,
Speaker 5: so it's meg a statement.
Speaker 3: James was still driven by the bigger picture, hoping he
Speaker 3: can carry this group past that fatigue built up over
Speaker 3: four straight seasons as one of the last two teams standing,
Speaker 3: the Spurs had a plan for James as well. It
Speaker 3: wasn't a secret that the Heat were older and relying
Speaker 3: more and more on the wrong so on top of
Speaker 3: the usual plan that included encouraging him to take long
Speaker 3: jump shots, the Spurs also made sure their ball movement
Speaker 3: would tire Lebron. Statistically, there were signs of fatigue already.
Speaker 3: While Lebron was still ridiculously efficient in the twenty fourteen playoffs,
Speaker 3: including shooting forty one percent from three, he also posted
Speaker 3: averages that are still playoff career lows to this day,
Speaker 3: with under five assists and just over seven rebounds.
Speaker 4: Here's Jackie McMullen.
Speaker 8: Movie movie moving the ball, Recover, Recover, Recover, and for
Speaker 8: a Heat team that was kind of sneaky, sneakily getting older.
Speaker 8: That was a lot to ask, especially for a big
Speaker 8: body like Lebron, who had to defend. If you ask
Speaker 8: him to defend like that, in the mixer, recover, recover,
Speaker 8: move hedge, hedge, hedge, and handle the scoring load. They
Speaker 8: figured their best chance at beating the Miami Heat was
Speaker 8: to wear Lebron down. And how do you do that?
Speaker 8: You put them in the mixer, You shoot threes. They were,
Speaker 8: do you remember this Israel shooting pull up three pointers?
Speaker 8: Pull up three pointers? Because that was going to keep
Speaker 8: Miami moving out of their comfort zone. Make Lebron work
Speaker 8: so much harder than anyone had ever made it work.
Speaker 3: And just to make sure Lebron's extra tired, maybe put
Speaker 3: that mixer in an oven. That's kind of what game
Speaker 3: one of the twenty fourteen Finals in San Antonio felt like.
Speaker 3: I was sitting atop the lower bowl of the AT
Speaker 3: and T Center in a row with other media members.
Speaker 3: As a South Floridian, heat and humidity are practically my relatives,
Speaker 3: so much so you don't even notice when they're around sometimes.
Speaker 3: But by the third quarter of this game, even I
Speaker 3: had to shed a layer and wonder why it was
Speaker 3: so warm in this building. As folks around me also
Speaker 3: started to lose clothing and drip sweat, it became obvious
Speaker 3: there was something wrong with the air conditioning. Some had
Speaker 3: noticed before the second half, including Lebron James.
Speaker 4: I'm going list some.
Speaker 15: Cold of water.
Speaker 5: Now they're trying to smoke us out of here.
Speaker 3: In the third quarter, the Spurs announced the air conditioning
Speaker 3: failure to the crowd.
Speaker 11: An electrical failure for the power that runs the AC
Speaker 11: unit is malfunctioning.
Speaker 2: At at and two centers to say the least, hot
Speaker 2: and steamid.
Speaker 3: The game was still very much up for grabs as
Speaker 3: the teams traded the lead throughout the period, which ended
Speaker 3: with Miami leading by two. For the heat, it felt
Speaker 3: like a sweaty race against the clock. The team knew
Speaker 3: Lebron had cramping issues. It happened in a perfectly cool
Speaker 3: American Airlines Arena during the twenty twelve finals, so this
Speaker 3: felt like an inevitability.
Speaker 4: Here's Chalmers.
Speaker 7: You can definitely see that comment, just because you knew
Speaker 7: he cramped up before. I don't know how he cramped up,
Speaker 7: but it's just one of those things like no matter
Speaker 7: what you do, no matter how much potassiti you take
Speaker 7: or whatever things you do to prevent cramps. It was
Speaker 7: bat HoTT and nangimn. If you not really prepared, you're
Speaker 7: going to cramp. And I just think that that's what
Speaker 7: happened to him, and he went down at the crucial moment.
Speaker 3: Lebron first left the game at the seven thirty one
Speaker 3: mark of the fourth quarter with Miami hanging on to
Speaker 3: a two point lead.
Speaker 2: James crossover move drive torrem and finishes.
Speaker 4: And hobble up. He's cramping up again, Mike.
Speaker 13: He is looking over at the training staff and saying
Speaker 13: he can't move.
Speaker 2: Reading his lips, he said he can't move, and so
Speaker 2: they're literally going to carry Lebron James over to the
Speaker 2: Miami bench.
Speaker 3: As he was getting treatment and drinking fluids. It only
Speaker 3: got hotter in the building. Shane Battier recalls having to
Speaker 3: escape the halftime locker room.
Speaker 4: Just for relief.
Speaker 3: He also joked with the Spurs shooting coach Chip England
Speaker 3: about the Spurs being better prepared for the situation.
Speaker 15: It was the.
Speaker 16: Hottest, the hottest room ever. It was a hot yoga
Speaker 16: hot and like the arena is hot. We go into
Speaker 16: the locker room and there was. They had no fans
Speaker 16: for us, and I know the Spurs had fans in
Speaker 16: there in there, so I'm close. I'm close to Chip England.
Speaker 16: That's my guy said, guys could have given us a fan. Man,
Speaker 16: that's messed up. So that's messed up. So like, it
Speaker 16: was so hot you couldn't even be in the locker room,
Speaker 16: so you actually had to go back to the hot
Speaker 16: arena just to escape the heat of.
Speaker 4: The locker room.
Speaker 3: Boris Dial often wears an engaging smile, and he certainly
Speaker 3: had one on his face when discussing this heated contest.
Speaker 15: It was a hot day, start sweating a lot, and
Speaker 15: you get dehydrated and you just feel the heat. But
Speaker 15: also maybe maybe it was an advantage for us against
Speaker 15: that team because a lot of guys play internationally, and
Speaker 15: internationally we don't have ac We play in the summer,
Speaker 15: so summer basketball and European Championship and World Cup, and
Speaker 15: we played so many games with no ACiE every summer basically,
Speaker 15: and we just you know, get used to. So a
Speaker 15: few players you know in our team knew or were
Speaker 15: used to that.
Speaker 4: Matt Bonner was not one of those players.
Speaker 6: You know, I'm not a big heat guy. I'm from
Speaker 6: New Hampshire.
Speaker 15: I know.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I went to University of Florida and I've been
Speaker 6: in San Antonio. But I just don't operate well when
Speaker 6: it's hot. And it wasn't just hot, it was humid too.
Speaker 6: People forget that about San Antonio. They think, oh, that
Speaker 6: dry heat like Vegas or Phoenix. It's like, no, it's
Speaker 6: not like that. It's muggy hot down here. And it
Speaker 6: was muggy hot in the arena, and I remember just
Speaker 6: sitting on the bench sweating, thinking like, oh my god,
Speaker 6: Like if Coach Pop puts me in the game, I
Speaker 6: might not be able to get up and down the
Speaker 6: court three times before I like pass out. How are
Speaker 6: these guys playing forty minutes in these conditions? It was
Speaker 6: just from a physical standpoint, I was amazed by all
Speaker 6: the guys who played like significant minutes in that game
Speaker 6: with their ability to endure that. You know, the one
Speaker 6: thing I will say, it was the same conditions for
Speaker 6: both teams.
Speaker 3: Lebron would attempt to play one more time, coming into
Speaker 3: the game at the four p thirty three mark, with
Speaker 3: the Heat now trailing by four. He'd hit a layup
Speaker 3: after driving past Boris Diao on the very first possession,
Speaker 3: but he wouldn't even be able to walk back in
Speaker 3: bounds without asking for a substitution. He eventually slowly limped
Speaker 3: his way back to the bench.
Speaker 2: And he Kim barely can't even make it down the floor.
Speaker 2: It's a five on four. Eric Spocher asking him of
Speaker 2: the foul. Patty Mills struggling with it, and there's the foul.
Speaker 2: James couldn't even make it down the floor. Man, James
Speaker 2: gonna have to be helped Oliver. We've seen him again
Speaker 2: crap up before in playoff situations, but it never seemed
Speaker 2: to be this severe. And again you wonder how much
Speaker 2: the lack of air conditioning and the heat of this
Speaker 2: building is coming into play with this and everything else.
Speaker 8: Oh, there's no doubt that this has had a huge
Speaker 8: impact on this game.
Speaker 3: There were thermometers in the building that had temperatures in
Speaker 3: the nineties in the AT and T Center. Add in
Speaker 3: the natural anxiety of a finals game with everyone watching
Speaker 3: to see if and when Lebron would come back, and
Speaker 3: there was no recovering from this. That meant the heat
Speaker 3: couldn't recover either. The Spurs flipped their magical switch to
Speaker 3: finish that game despite the climate, on a sixteen to
Speaker 3: four run, with twelve of those points coming off three
Speaker 3: pointers that were the results of beautiful ball movement. It
Speaker 3: was a sign of things to come.
Speaker 12: Thirty to nine runs San Antonio since trailing.
Speaker 2: Eighty six seventy nine.
Speaker 11: It's green again, Daddy Green from downtown. The San Antonio
Speaker 11: Spurs take Game one of the twenty fourteen NBA Finals.
Speaker 3: For the Heat, it was just another game one loss
Speaker 3: in the finals. They're third straight. Miami would recover and
Speaker 3: win the previous two championships, so there wasn't much about
Speaker 3: Game one that had the team scared. Miami had the
Speaker 3: built in excuse of the temperature, causing Lebron to effectively
Speaker 3: miss the final seven minutes of what was a close game.
Speaker 3: Lebron in the Heat hadn't lost back to back playoff
Speaker 3: games since the twenty two of Eastern Conference Finals, and
Speaker 3: we all remember how Lebron responded to that in a
Speaker 3: Game six. This would be a Game two, but Lebron
Speaker 3: still had the motivation to recover from the cramp game,
Speaker 3: a situation he was still heavily mocked for on social media.
Speaker 3: Despite articles being written about how debilitating cramps can be.
Speaker 5: Let's when thought them out.
Speaker 3: Whatever it take to win, and a motivated James in
Speaker 3: a fully air conditioned arena was still a scary proposition.
Speaker 2: Not much kicks it out Lewis James on the attackles
Speaker 2: to the rim, Lebron James wanted a foul as well.
Speaker 2: Impressive move take that dop the first app most of
Speaker 2: what was in the paint now starting to go from
Speaker 2: the perimeter and other three.
Speaker 11: That's good Lebron James.
Speaker 2: Four straight juppers toover from downtown and the Heat back
Speaker 2: up by two.
Speaker 3: James also had some help from Bosh and Wade to
Speaker 3: seal the deal.
Speaker 2: Bosh shot blocked down eight, Bosh gonna go to the rim, inside.
Speaker 7: Way lay up and god, what a comeback by the Heat.
Speaker 3: By the final buzzer, it was another game two finals
Speaker 3: recovery for Miami and another stellar performance from a fully
Speaker 3: recovered Lebron thirty five points, three of three from three,
Speaker 3: ten rebounds, three assists, and two steals in a two
Speaker 3: point Heat win.
Speaker 15: And that's the ball game. The Miami Heat, even the series.
Speaker 3: A three peat, still felt very much doable. Home court
Speaker 3: advantage was Miami's now and in this new two two
Speaker 3: one one one finals format, the Heat wouldn't have to
Speaker 3: win three straight home games to maintain it. They'd only
Speaker 3: have to win two before heading back to San Antonio.
Speaker 3: And after the Spurs lost Game two with Lebron's early
Speaker 3: exit helping them win Game one, the Spurs were a
Speaker 3: bit concerned their PTSD from the previous season would start
Speaker 3: to bubble up.
Speaker 7: We were up one with a one minute and a
Speaker 7: half to go, and we just couldn't make the shot
Speaker 7: to go to come up and top. You know, we
Speaker 7: had a great opportunity.
Speaker 3: But Greg Popovich would make one adjustment that would make
Speaker 3: this Spurs Game two loss feel like a tiny stumble
Speaker 3: instead of a monumental missed opportunity. That adjustment would come
Speaker 3: in the form of course DA. Through the first two
Speaker 3: games of the series, Spurs starting point guard Tony Parker
Speaker 3: seemed to be playing just fine, averaging twenty points and
Speaker 3: seven and a half assists, but Popovich still found a
Speaker 3: way to get the team's offense flowing even more by
Speaker 3: giving Parker another point guard.
Speaker 15: The split game kind of put us on ols, you know,
Speaker 15: being at home and giving one away and now going
Speaker 15: into Miami basically we didn't have a choice, and he
Speaker 15: became you know, must win game. And so the Game three,
Speaker 15: the motivation was there. I think Bob put me in
Speaker 15: the in the starting five in that game to move
Speaker 15: to move the ball, you know, one of the things
Speaker 15: that Miami was doing, they were really pressing Tony and
Speaker 15: focusing on Tony double team, try to get the ball
Speaker 15: out of his hand. So I was just you know,
Speaker 15: acting as a release for him, as you know, almost
Speaker 15: like a second point guard, because Tony was like double
Speaker 15: team and trapped on the side and trying to make
Speaker 15: the decision on the other side. And so that that
Speaker 15: gave us some freedom to actually move the ball and
Speaker 15: accelerate the ball behind pick and rolls.
Speaker 3: The move was supposed to unlock the best version of
Speaker 3: the Spurs, the perfect basketball, Diel said the team was
Speaker 3: attempting to achieve all season. Would be required for San
Speaker 3: Antonio to overcome the heat. If the Spurs were going
Speaker 3: to reveal the beautiful game and finally overthrow the champs, However,
Speaker 3: they'd have to start the process at the scene of
Speaker 3: their most stunning trauma. Bonner and his determined team were
Speaker 3: headed back to Miami like to this day.
Speaker 6: When I hear the baseline for Seven Nation Army, it
Speaker 6: takes me right back to their arena in the finals
Speaker 6: in thirteen and fourteen. That was like their anthem. It
Speaker 6: was just such an electric atmosphere to be a part
Speaker 6: of it was awesome.
Speaker 4: On the final episode of Four Years at.
Speaker 6: Heat, and then we came out that Game four is
Speaker 6: really the game where we ripped our hearts out.
Speaker 16: I probably should have retired after his sixth series in
Speaker 16: game seven year before, looking back at Chicaga just walked off.
Speaker 7: They ran out of villains, Like it was originally the
Speaker 7: media and the noise, and then it was losing the
Speaker 7: Dallas and then you know, how were we going to
Speaker 7: get past this? How we're going to get past that?
Speaker 4: Once they got past everything.
Speaker 17: They ran out of things to hate.
Speaker 8: Without that Miami experience, Lebron James would be a completely
Speaker 8: different player, a completely different human.
Speaker 4: That team would have been a historic underachiever. If not
Speaker 4: for that shot, one title would not have been enough.
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