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Jeff McDonald of the San Antonio Express-News: During the postseason, Miami has won each of its six games following a loss by an average of 20.7 points. The Heat's victories in this schizophrenic series have come by 19 and 16. History conflicts on wh...

Dan McCarney of the San Antonio Express-News: It has been a Finals marked by wild swings of fortunes, so why should Game 5 have been any different? For the third straight contest, the team blown out by double-digits bounced back to return the favor i...

Ethan J. Skolnick of the Palm Beach Post: There was the 2006 Finals MVP, a nine-time All-Star, arguably the second-best two-guard of his generation. There was the defender whom Spurs coach Gregg Popovich chose to check him: The slow-footed seven-foot...

Mike Vaccaro of the New York Post: Son of a gun. They really did it. The Nets are really going to introduce Jason Kidd this afternoon at 2 p.m. at Barclays Center. They really are going to reach back to the most glorious moments of their NBA history,...

Dan McCarney of the San Antonio Express-News: As Cornbread Maxwell noted after Boston destroyed the Lakers in Game 1 of the 1985 Finals, basketball isn't backgammon. You don't get extra credit for margin of victory. But the Spurs might have grounds t...

Ira Winderman of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel: The talent on both sides is undeniable. Yet it might not make the ultimate difference in these NBA Finals. The Miami Heat and San Antonio Spurs have shown as much through the first two games of this be...

Dan McCarney of the San Antonio Express-News: It took the Heat the better part of seven quarters, but they finally gave the Spurs a taste of their awesome open-court power with a 33-5 run to blow Game 2 open and even the Finals at 1-1. They did so by...

Jeff McDonald of the San Antonio Express-News: The play that gave the Spurs a 1-0 lead in the NBA Finals doesn't have a name. It won't show up in coach Gregg Popovich's playbook. Given the unique unfolding of events, late in the Spurs' 92-88 victory ...

Joseph Goodman of The Miami Herald: Conference championships are nice, but rings are the only things that matter in Miami. Simply put, for the Heat to defeat the Spurs in The Finals, and repeat as NBA champions, Wade and Bosh will have to rejoin the ...

Shandel Richardson of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel: It truly is a case where you can actually throw out the previous games between the teams. The Miami Heat and San Antonio Spurs will meet in the NBA Finals, but don't expect it to resemble anything...

Greg Cote of The Miami Herald: This is what champions do. They rise up. They answer doubts and opponents with a vengeance and assassin's eyes. They somehow summon their greatness just when the stage is biggest and loudest, just when you wonder if the...

Bob Kravitz of The Indianapolis Star: Whatever happens now, the local NBA franchise has made Indianapolis a Pacers town once again. Win or lose Monday night in Game 7 of the Eastern Conference finals against the Miami Heat, Indianapolis has been tran...

Bob Kravitz of The Indianapolis Star: It took some time, 4.5 games to be exact, but the Indiana Pacers got LeBron James' attention. They started to get it before the series, on a misquote from Pacers coach Frank Vogel that upset James for reasons we c...

Mary Schmitt Boyer of The Plain Dealer: Earl Boykins had a message for Kyrie Irving after Wednesday's reports that Cavaliers coach Mike Brown has hired assistant Igor Kokoskov. "You're going to love this guy," Boykins said in a telephone interview fr...

Bob Kravitz of The Indianapolis Star: The Pacers season lives. The Pacers season lives because Roy Hibbert has become a dominant center in this league, having grown exponentially into a star in this postseason. With the game on the line, Hibbert was ...

Jeff McDonald of the San Antonio Express-News: It began as a pact between the two longest-tenured Spurs, on one of the darker nights in franchise history. The Spurs had just lost Game 6 of the Western Conference finals against Oklahoma City last June...