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The 5-on-5 crew looks back on a wild Game 6 from the NBA Finals.

How could the Los Angeles Clippers possibly walk away from a negotiation that would've yielded them Kevin Garnett and Doc Rivers for a relatively unproven young center, a couple of first-round draft picks and the relatively small burden of taking ...

Trailing 3-2 in the Finals, the Heat must be more disciplined in order to win an NBA title.

The Spurs thrive in structure, the Heat do better when the game flows freely. Kevin Arnovitz examines two approaches in the Finals.

Kevin Arnovitz has been digging into that question -- he has written it up beautifully here -- and the answer is interesting: They're playing exactly the kind of ball people say they want to see, but they've never been hot in the national TV ratings....

Some call them boring; others applaud their genius. Kevin Arnovitz examines the Spurs way of life.

After a rough first three games, Chris Bosh rose to the occasion in the Heat's Game 4 victory.

Rocky Widner/NBAE/Getty Images"The foie gras and truffles treatment worked really well." -- Gregg Popovich, March 2011, when asked about Tony Parker's surprisingly quick return to the Spurs' lineup following a calf injury....

SAN ANTONIO -- Three summers ago, an undersized 25-year-old shooting guard named Gary Neal arrived in Las Vegas with an invitation from the San Antonio Spurs to play on their Summer League team. Neal had gone undrafted three years earlier...

Noah Graham/NBAE/Getty Images"I don't love [basketball] the way everybody else does. I don't sleep it and eat it. I already did that, and I know what I like to do, what I like to coach, and that's what we do. But I'm not gonna beat myself up over a l...

Rocky Widner/NBAE/Getty Images "When I came down to St. Croix to see Timmy eight or nine years ago, nobody said a word to me [about driving on the left side]. I got my rental car and I went out on the road, and I was gesticulating at like ten people...

When things looked precarious for the Miami Heat in the second quarter and LeBron James' stat line looked pedestrian by anyone's standards, it became throwback night: What was going on? Was he being too deferential? Not sufficiently assertive? And...

Mike Ehrmann/NBAE/Getty Images "You don't deserve anything. You just go play. You start thinking about what you deserve and what you don't deserve and it just makes you soft. You just go play the game." -- Gregg Popovich, May 2006...

The San Antonio Spurs and Miami Heat did basketball proud on Thursday night in Game 1 of the NBA Finals. The series opener was a nice composite of the most likeable qualities of two really good basketball teams. Neither San Antonio nor Miami was the ...

Ronald Martinez/NBAE/Getty Images "[Tim Duncan] doesn't really even talk to me that much anymore. We've been married so long that ... half the things I say he doesn't hear, the other half he tunes out if he did hear, because he figures it's bull----...

Our 5-on-5 panel previews the NBA Finals between the Spurs and Heat.