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With Steve Kerr and Spurs, nice guys could finish first.(Chicago Tribune)
Byline: Sam Smith
DALLAS _ The heck with Leo Durocher and Vince Lombardi. Nice guys do finish first. Take the San Antonio Spurs and Steve Kerr, though no one has been able to in these NBA playoffs.
The Spurs open the NBA Finals at home Wednesday against the New Jersey Nets after a satisfying comeback from a 13-point fourth-quarter deficit against the Dallas Mavericks on Thursday. They won the Western Conference finals four games to two.
"It was a great confidence-builder," Spurs coach Gregg Popovich said. "We've given up so many leads. It was pretty sweet to be down and come back doing the right things."
Doing the right things pretty much sums up Kerr, who really isn't the luckiest guy in the world, though he'd tell you he is. He saved the Spurs from a potential Game 7 by hitting shot after shot and making play after play to lead them past the NBA's only other 60-win team this season.
"I ask `Why me?' almost every day," Kerr said.
From anyone else it would sound insincere. But there's nothing insincere about Kerr, a longtime Bulls favorite who hit the clinching shot against Utah in Game 6 of the 1997 Finals.
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