On June 6, 2013, at 7 p.m., the first game of the Finals between the Heat and the Spurs was about to begin, but Eric Spoelstra, who had finished arranging the team's tactics in the locker room, was not confident at all.

Although the Heat is the defending champion and has a record of 66 wins in the regular season this season, the Heat's path to promotion is far less logical than the Spurs, and they almost fell in the Eastern Conference Finals. How should the Heat deal with it?

However, the fans of the American Airlines Arena are in a completely different state of mind from Eric Spoelstra at the moment, and in the American Airlines Arena, which was already full two hours before the start of the game, the Heat fans at the scene looked at the big screen in the center of the stadium, which was playing the highlights of the Heat's regular season and playoffs, cheering and celebrating.

Since the end of the regular season, the fans of the Heat have always been in a very excited state, who made the Heat's performance in this season so crazy, 66 wins in the regular season, 27 consecutive wins, all of which are the best records in the history of the Heat, coupled with the identity of the Heat's defending champion, it is not possible to let the fans who support the Heat have greater expectations for the Heat this season, therefore, although the public opinion of the outside world is now singing about the Heat, but the fans of the Heat are interested in the Heat, James, Wade, And Bosh is still confident.

"The atmosphere at the Heat's home court is as hot as ever." El Michaels, who has done all the pre-game debugging work, said with a smile to his old partner Magic Johnson after sitting in his seat, as the main broadcaster of the NBA, the NBA Finals are exclusively broadcast live by ABC every year, and today's Finals is no exception, but due to Meng Xu's comeback, the Wake Forest duo reunited and went all the way to the Finals, so ABC TV Network also has great expectations for the ratings of this year's Finals.

"The situation in this year's finals is really a bit weird." Magic Johnson, who has commented on the Finals countless times, said something to himself that made Michaels a little confused after looking up at the Heat playoff highlights being played on the big screen.

As the defending champion, the first in the regular season this season, the Heat should have been the biggest favorite for the championship, but after the Finals are about to start, the voice of the outside world supporting the Heat has been overwhelmed by the voice of the Spurs championship, which is also a big anecdote, as an insider, Magic Johnson certainly knows what the root cause of all this is.

Although in the regular season, especially in the final stage of the regular season, the Spurs once seemed to stumble, making people tremble, for fear that they would repeat the mistakes of the previous two seasons, but after entering the playoffs, the Spurs were like a different team, first swept the old rival Lakers, then swept the dark horse Warriors, and finally swept the Thunder, the first in the West, in the Western Conference finals.

Especially as the Spurs' leading players, the Wake Forest duo, after the regular season, Meng Xu and Duncan teamed up to be selected for the best team for a while, which caused a lot of controversy at the time, and some people even suspected that the NBA league was manipulating behind the scenes, but Meng Xu and Duncan used their outstanding performance in the playoffs to make these controversies disappear.

In 12 playoff games, Tim Duncan averaged 19 points, 13.5 rebounds, 3 blocks, and 3 assists per game, while Meng Xu was able to contribute 32 points, 8 rebounds, 7 assists, 3.5 steals, and 2 blocks per game, especially in the series with the Warriors, Meng Xu set a playoff scoring record of 45+ points in 3 consecutive games, and these two old guys who are more than 70 years old together, their performance in the playoffs can only be described as against the sky. Under their leadership, the Spurs also swept all the way to the finals with a record of 12 wins.

On the other hand, the Heat, although they won the first place in the regular season and the third in history 27 consecutive wins, but their energy seems to have been exhausted in the regular season, after entering the playoffs, except for James and Ray Allen, the rest of the Heat players seem to be out of shape, especially the other two of the Big Three, Chris Bosh and Dwyane Wade, one is worse than the other, and it is reasonable for the outside media not to be optimistic about the Heat.

"Hello viewers around the world, I'm El Michaels, and I'm bringing you the first game of the 2012-2013 NBA Finals season against the San Antonio Spurs, brought to you by ABC Network." Just when Magic Johnson was still discussing with Michaels, the visiting Spurs had already kicked out, and it was no surprise that Meng Xu was at the forefront of the Spurs team, the first to walk out of the players' tunnel, and waved to the Heat fans at the scene under the boos of the audience.

When Tim Duncan was the last to walk out of the players' tunnel, the boos at the American Airlines Arena came to an abrupt end, because the fans at the scene knew that the team they supported was going to play behind Tim Duncan, starting with Norris Kerr, every Heat player could enjoy the warm cheers and applause of the fans on the field, especially when the Heat Big Three began to play, the atmosphere in the American Airlines Arena was at its peak, whether it was Chris Bosh or Dwyane Wade, Or LeBron James, as they walked out of the tunnel, the crowd chanted MVP slogans in unison.

"In today's game, whether it is the Heat or the Spurs, their starting lineup has changed somewhat compared with the first few rounds of the playoffs, first of all, the Heat, center Chris Bosh, power forward LeBron James, small forward Sean Battier, scoring guard Dwyane Wade, playmaking guard Mario Money, Eric Spoelstra replaced Udonis Haslem with Battier today, and LeBron was pushed to the fourth position, which should strengthen the defense of the Spurs' outside line."

"And on the Spurs, the biggest change is that Thiago Split replaced Burrese Dio, center Tim Duncan, big forward Thiago Split, it looks like the Spurs are ready to strengthen their interior today, as for the outside line is still small forward Meng Xu, scoring guard Kawhi Leonard, playmaker Tony Parker, the Heat strengthened the outside line in this game, and the Spurs chose to strengthen the inside line, it seems that the two sides will have a wonderful collision between the inside and outside today."

After the starters of both sides began to warm up, Popovich, who was rarely standing on the sidelines, turned his head to look at Eric Spoelstra, who was also standing on the sidelines not far away, and after finding that Eric Spoelstra was also looking at him, Popovich smiled at Eric Spoelstra, and Eric Spoelstra could only respond slightly embarrassed after seeing Popovich smiling at him, and then quickly shifted his gaze to the court.

After a brief warm-up, Tim Duncan, who represented the Spurs jump ball, and Chris Bosh, who represented the Heat jump ball, walked into the center circle one after another.