Tim Duncan on Finals lead: 'We don't have this in the bag'
No team has ever come back from a 3-1 deficit to win the NBA Finals.
The Miami Heat will try to become the first team to accomplish the feat, while the San Antonio Spurs hope to avoid being a footnote to a trivia question somewhere down the road.
The Spurs know that nothing is won yet. The team appeared to have the series all sewn up a year ago before a miraculous comeback by the Heat in the closing moments of Game 6.
"We go back to last year when we were 30 seconds away." Tim Duncan said, via the NBA's official Twitter account. "We don't have this in the bag."
While the Spurs aren't ready to crown themselves just yet, similarly, the Heat aren't ready to fold up shop.
Via Yahoo Sports, LeBron James already knows the gist of his pregame speech to his teammates in advance of Game 5:
"Why not us? Why not us?"