2013 NBA Finals
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| Dates | June 6–20 | ||||||||||||||
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LeBron James (Miami Heat) |
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United States: English: ABC and ESPN3 Spanish: ESPN Deportes Canada: TSN |
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| Announcers | ABC:
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| Radio network | ESPN Radio | ||||||||||||||
| Announcers | Mike Tirico (Games 1–3 and 5–7), Kevin Calabro (Game 4) and Hubie Brown | ||||||||||||||
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| Eastern Finals | Heat defeated Pacers, 4–3 | ||||||||||||||
| Western Finals | Spurs defeated Grizzlies, 4–0 | ||||||||||||||
| Game 1: | Monty McCutchen, Tony Brothers, Jason Phillips |
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| Game 2: | Joe Crawford, Ed Malloy, Ken Mauer |
| Game 3: | Dan Crawford, James Capers, Marc Davis |
| Game 4: | Scott Foster, Mike Callahan, Bill Kennedy |
| Game 5: | Monty McCutchen, Tony Brothers, Ed Malloy |
| Game 6: | Joe Crawford, Mike Callahan, Ken Mauer |
| Game 7 | Dan Crawford, Scott Foster, Monty McCutchen |
The 2013 NBA Finals was the championship series of the 2012–13 NBA season and the conclusion of the season's playoffs. The Eastern Conference champion Miami Heat defeated the Western Conference champion San Antonio Spurs to win their second straight title. The Finals began with Game 1 on June 6, and ended with Game 7 on June 20.
Miami became the 6th team to win consecutive NBA championships, joining the Boston Celtics (1959–1966, 1968–1969), the Los Angeles Lakers (1949–1950, 1952–1954, 1987–1988, 2000–2002, 2009–2010), the Detroit Pistons (1989–1990), the Chicago Bulls (1991–1993, 1996–1998), and the Houston Rockets (1994–1995) in doing so. This series marked the fifth time the Spurs have made the NBA Finals since 1999, second-most for any franchise in that span behind the Los Angeles Lakers. The Spurs had won all of their previous four finals appearances, putting them only behind the six-time champion Chicago Bulls for most titles without ever losing a Finals, making this series the first Finals loss in Spurs history. This series was also the first time San Antonio had played in the NBA Finals without home court advantage, as Miami had home-court advantage based on their league-best regular season record. It was the Heat's third consecutive NBA Finals appearance, the first Eastern Conference team to achieve that since the Chicago Bulls (1996–1998).
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