The Miami Heat will look to regain their composure after a Game 1 loss with a win Sunday night in Game 2 of the NBA Finals against the San Antonio Spurs at 8 p.m. ET.
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"Playoffs ain't fun, man. I'm sorry to bust anyone on the outside's bubble," Dwyane Wade said. "As a player in the playoffs, you have no joy until it's over and you won. If you don't win, you have no joy for a while."
Down 1-0 after a record regular season that goes for naught without another title, the Heat can turn their moods around with a victory over San Antonio on Sunday night in Game 2.
Back in the finals for a third straight year, the Heat have lost some of the ability to enjoy the ride. With exorbitant expectations, all that matters is the destination.
But San Antonio, absent from this stage for six years, is soaking up what could be its last shot for Tim Duncan, Tony Parker and Manu Ginobili.
After all, Duncan is pretty ancient -- at least, according to those wise-cracking Spurs.
"Older than dirt," coach Gregg Popovich called him this week.
Parker listed him at age 50 -- Duncan is actually 37 -- and the repeated ribbing appears almost out of character for a franchise that was often considered the definition of basketball blandness.
"My friends and everybody on the team, we get like the funny Instagram doctored-up photos or jokes where they're making fun of how old some of the people on our team are who shall remain nameless," reserve Matt Bonner said. "And we get a kick out of that."
