NBA Finals 2014: Spurs blow out Heat, take command of NBA Finals

Kawhi Leonard is Kawhi Leonard.

(via @jollyrogerwilco, who is not Kawhi Leonard)

Game 5 is in San Antonio on Sunday, June 15 at 8 p.m. ET and will air on ABC.

There is no other explanation for how he saw Tiago Splitter’s cut on this play. Even one of the league’s flashiest passers is giving him props.

Portland has Free Throw Guy. Oklahoma City has that idiot who makes a hog call. Miami has... this.

Over the course of a seven-game series, we get an excellent opportunity to see both teams make a series of both large and small between-game adjustments. This is the constant chess match between coaching staffs, recognizing what your opponent is doing well as they try to position their team on the way to calling “checkmate.”

Most fans think that as the coaches pore over the previous game’s video tape evidence, there is a eureka moment when the coaches discover their opponents’ glaring weakness. It usually doesn’t happen like that. Few teams have that chessboard kryptonite that you can hop on like Garry Kasparov playing the neighborhood guys in speed chess down at the park.