By the end, there was no stopping the San Antonio Spurs. I don’t know that any of their opponents were much better than any of the others, but the Spurs were playing their best basketball by the NBA Finals and the Cleveland Cavaliers couldn’t even take one game. Utah knows how they felt — they could only manage to win one of five, as the Spurs steam-rolled through the playoffs.

Some years you wonder if the best team really won (like last year where the Miami Heat came from nowhere to win the championship), but I don’t think there is a doubt in anyone’s mind that the San Antonio Spurs were the best team this year.
 
The only top team they didn’t have to play was Dallas, and it isn’t likely that the Mavs would have fared any better than the Denver Nuggets, the Phoenix Suns, the Utah Jazz, or the Cleveland Cavaliers. You don’t get the feeling that Chicago or Detroit, the other two top teams in the East would have fared much better either.
 
It wasn’t pretty to watch (and most people didn’t watch Lebron James brick tough shot after tough shot — as has been well publicized, the finals games were some of the worst watched in recent history), but for this year at least, the best team really did win.

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