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2013 NBA Finals: Homegrown Spurs display poise, seize opener on the road

They couldn’t rattle him. They couldn’t shake his team. And when Tony Parker’s high-arcing, nike air max shoes broken-play, crazy lean-in jumper banked off the glass and in with 5.2 seconds left, already LeBron James and the Miami Heat had to cede at least one major advantage to the Spurs and their calm-amid-the-calamity point guard after Game 1 of the NBA cheap air max shoes Finals:

In the poise matchup, San Antonio’s serenity beats Miami’s chaotic, maddening desire for air max sale a second straight title — at least for the moment.

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A look back at Tim Duncan's 10 best NBA Finals performances

After a four-game sweep of the Memphis Grizzlies, Tim Duncan and the San Antonio Spurs are nike griffey max 1 headed back to the NBA Finals for the first time since 2007 and the fifth time in Duncan’s illustrious career. All four prior trips ended with the Spurs hoisting the Larry O’Brien trophy; three (1999, 2003, 2005) resulted in Duncan earning Finals MVP honors.

He’s one of the great Finals performers in NBA history, Nike Air Griffey Max 360 averaging 22.7 points, 14.4 rebounds, 3.4 assists and three blocks per game in the championship round, and his 22 Finals games have included some amazing individual efforts. I went back through Duncan's NBA Finals history with the help of Basketball-Reference.com's database, checked out his game-by-game output and identified his top title-round outings as defined by "Game Score" — a handy little metric developed by ESPN columnist-turned-Grizzlies executive John Hollinger to provide "a rough measure of a player's productivity for a single game."

The rankings leave some room for quibbling — there isn't a single appearance nike air max 1 from the Spurs' 2005 championship win over the Detroit Pistons, for example, a series in which Duncan posted three 20-plus-point/15-plus-rebound games and put up 25 and 11 in a deciding Game 7 — but by and large, it's a pretty comprehensive guide to just how dominant Duncan's been on the sport's grandest stage. While we wait for Duncan to write a new chapter at age 37, let's take a look back at the best passages from the brilliant tome he's already written.

The Cleveland Cavaliers win the 2013 NBA Draft Lottery, get top pick for second time in three years

It seems like Nick Gilbert brings a lot of luck to the NBA Draft Lottery for the nike mercurial vapor Cleveland Cavaliers. For the second time in three seasons as the franchise's lottery representative, the teenage son of Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert has brought home the top pick in the draft. The Cavs, who finished the 2012-13 season with a 24-58 record, entered the lottery with the third-best chances of snagging the first selection at 15.6 percent.

The Orlando Magic, the league's worst team at 20-62, nike mercurial victory were forced to settle for the second pick. However, the biggest losers of the lottery were the Charlotte Bobcats (soon to be the Hornets), who dropped to the fourth spot after posting a 21-62 record, just one game better than the Magic. They were supplanted in the top three by the Washington Wizards, who entered the process with a 30 percent chance of jumping from the eighth pick into the trio of lottery spots.

While the Wizards will benefit the biggest boost of any team in the nike mercurial lottery, the Cavaliers are the clear winners of the event. In 2011, they won the top pick and selected Duke point guard Kyrie Irving, who earned his first All-Star selection this February in his second season. This June, Cleveland will have the chance to choose between Kentucky shot-blocker Nerlens Noel (currently rehabbing a torn ACL) and Kansas shooting guard Ben McLemore. Given the presence of 2012 first-round pick Dion Waiters, the Cavs will likely opt for Noel, although that is merely an educated guess with the draft more than a month away.

Cavaliers could deal top pick

The Cleveland Cavaliers, who scored the top pick at mercurial vapor Tuesday night's draft lottery, will be willing to listen to trade offers for it.

"You want to look at all your options and make the best decision for your team," Cavs general manager Chris Grant said. "This is a valuable asset that we can add to the group, whether it's in trade or keep nike mercurial vapor superfly it and add a player."

The Cavs are in a favorable position to make a deal. The team has more vapor soccer cleats than $20 million in salary cap space, the No. 1 pick plus the No. 19, No. 31 and No. 33 picks, and a roster with young prospects that could be used in a deal.