The great American sportswriter Grantland Rice wrote a poem, "Alumnus Football," that ended like this:
"When the One Great Scorer comes to mark against your name, He writes — not that you won or lost — but how you played the Game."
I thought of those lines when considering the San Antonio Spurs and their five-game demolition of the Miami Heat for the 2014 NBA title.
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