Result
The Spurs won the series 4 games to 1. Spurs forward Tim Duncan was named the Most Valuable Player of the finals. On June 25 In Game 5, with 47 seconds to go, it was Avery Johnson who hit the game-winner. Johnson's shot was followed by a Latrell Sprewell miss that would have sent the series back to San Antonio, as the Knicks couldn't continue their Cinderella run.
This was the first of San Antonio's four NBA Championships, but they would not return to the Finals until 2003. New York has yet to return to the Finals since this year. No #8 seed has advanced to the NBA Finals or as far as the Conference Finals since, but there have been other instances of #8 seeds defeating #1 seeds in the playoffs; the first was in 2007 when the Golden State Warriors defeated the Dallas Mavericks, then in 2011 when the Memphis Grizzlies defeated the Spurs, and the most recent was 2012 with the Chicago Bulls falling to the Philadelphia 76ers.
As of 2011, June 25 is the latest in the calendar that any NBA Finals game has ever been played. If there was Game 7 it would have been played on Tuesday, June 29.
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