Spurs find motivation in 2005 NBA finals
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The San Antonio Spurs are halfway to a fourth NBA title. In their two victories over the Cleveland Cavaliers, they've looked dominant and composed. They haven't, however, forgotten 2005 &#151; that's when they led the Detroit Pistons 2-0 and looked well on their way to the title, but wound up needing seven games to win.
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The San Antonio Spurs held off a late charge by the Cleveland Cavaliers to record a 103-92 victory on Sunday and take a 2-0 lead in the NBA finals.
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Their blueprint, shaded in tones of silver, white and black, is based on defense, discipline and teamwork. The San Antonio Spurs have never wavered from it, making them the NBA's current standard of excellence.
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The San Antonio Spurs downed the Cleveland Cavaliers 112-105 on Wednesday, marking a successful return to the arena where they won the NBA title last season. Manu Ginobili scored a season-high 46 points, including a career-best eight three-pointers, as the Spurs defeated the team they swept from the NBA finals.
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The San Antonio Spurs moved to the brink of clinching a fourth NBA title in the last nine years after grinding out a 75-72 victory over the Cleveland Cavaliers on Tuesday, the win giving them a 3-0 finals series lead.
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San Antonio rode a strong third quarter to a 105-88 victory over Minnesota on Saturday as Spurs coach Gregg Popovich notched his 600th National Basketball Association victory.
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Kevin Durant scored 26 points, including the go-ahead jump shot with 32.6 seconds remaining and host Seattle stunned the defending NBA champion San Antonio Spurs, 88-85, last night to end a team-record losing streak at 14 games.
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Tony Parker scores 24 points, grabs seven rebounds and nabs the finals MVP award as the Spurs sweep Cleveland with a 83-82 victory to win the NBA championship on Thursdsay.
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Tony Parker scored 30 points and the San Antonio Spurs seized a huge lead, squandered most of it, then hung on to beat Cleveland 103-92 Sunday in the National Basketball Association Finals.
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Beating the tough Spurs, with or without superstar Tim Duncan, shows just how far the Wizards have risen.
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As much as the individual talents of Tim Duncan, Tony Parker and Manu Ginobili have frustrated the Utah Jazz in the Western Conference finals, the San Antonio Spurs have benefited from something else: their collective experience.
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The San Antonio Spurs put a bad game behind them in a hurry. They built a 16-point lead in the first 7:41 and remained comfortably in front Monday night on their way to a 103-81 rout of the Los Angeles Clippers.
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The Spurs, or what's left of them, made their annual visit to Boston yesterday. The Celtics, or what's left of them, ended a home losing streak to San Antonio that stretched to Jan. 8, 1997, when Tim Duncan still was enjoying the pleasures of Wake Forest, Tony Parker was a teenager, and Bruce Bowen was league-hopping three times, including a ...
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Foul after foul, free throw after free throw, the San Antonio Spurs won Game 4 of the Western Conference finals the hard way. Tim Duncan and Manu Ginobili took the brunt of the blows and made enough foul shots in the fourth quarter to lift San Antonio past a valiant Deron Williams and the Utah Jazz 91-79 Monday night, giving the Spurs a 3-1 series lead.
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The San Antonio Spurs moved to within  one victory of the NBA finals with a 91-79 road victory over  the Utah Jazz on Monday, pulling away from the hosts with an  aggressive fourth-quarter run.
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The San Antonio Spurs, playing their best defense when it matters most, moved to the brink of a fourth National Basketball Association title in nine years Tuesday by edging Cleveland 75-72.
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For 44 minutes, the San Antonio Spurs had big trouble making 3-pointers. In the final 4 minutes, they couldn't miss. Tim Duncan had 24 points and Spurs hit five 3-pointers in a row to overtake the Portland Trail Blazers for their 10th straight victory, 99-94 Tuesday night.