Wait a second? Best the NBA has to offer in the 99 finals? Correct me if I haven't understood properly - but are you talking about the Knicks?? The 8th seed that year - who honestly got lucky against Miami with Allen Houston and with Johnson against the Pacers - and they were without Ewing in the finals - who guards Duncan on that team then, Camby???
The best thing Duncan has done was knock the Lakers out on the way to the 03 title.
So 99 finals were special case because the
Spurs only played the Eastern conference?
Wtf you talking about? They went through Lakers (all stars: Shaq, Eddie Jones, Kobe, Van Exel), through Utah with Malone & Co. fresh off of their finals appearance, and through the Rockets built for a run at a championship (Hakeem, Pippen, and Barkley).
You really don't know your basketball.
Errr...we're talking about the finals rectard!!!
Read my damn post properly before you run your mouth like that.
Does Hillio know you have to play 3 rounds first before you even get to the Finals? So how can the Spurs not face the best of what the NBA had to offer than? You can't win a gold medal without running the race, you can't expect an applause without performing a show. So in the NBA, you can't get to the finals without having to face 3 other teams, and the spurs faced pretty good teams.
Another line of reasoning, you know why the spurs didn't face the best the nba has to offer? Because there were the best the NBA had to offer that year, they were the champs!