GAME. SEVEN. And the Greater Scheme of Things.

In professional sports, there is nothing like a Game Seven.

The effort you put in from the start of the offseason training camp, to the grind of the preseason and the 82-game regular season, to the fight to beat attrition that is the postseason, all cascading into this one spectacle.

At least 48 minutes to determine your fate, and for some, their legacy that upon which, would be bloviated upon by the talking heads and the commentweeters in the immediate future, and by history as time passes by.

One game where one miss or one turnover could possibly turn the tide. One game whose luck, if you believe in that, could smile towards you with a bounce, a tip, or even a roll. Numbers never lie, but Coach Spo said so himself:

You can't win this series or the last game with a statistic.  You have to compete and win those battles on the court

This Game 7 was preceded by an all-time classic Game 6, possibly considered as ABC's most watched NBA game since the Disney-owned company reacquired said rights. In the basketball-crazy Motherland, ABS-CBN proclaimed it as the most-watched NBA game ever shown on its channel.

Game 6 of the 2013 NBA Finals registered the highest ever rating of an NBA game on ABS-CBN

How grand was it? Well, here is the micro-movie:



It has been a blessing to have watched these two teams launch haymaker after haymaker, alternating wins and losses against each other.

From Tony's 23.9 seconds' worth of a working miracle, to LeBron's emphatic rejection. From dialing threes at the AT&T, to the revitalized Big 3. From Manu's rejuvenation to Jesus' redemption.

Does it matter who wins it, really? The better team will come out of this one, for sure.

What matters for me is that this game turns out to be a barnburner, a classic. Something we can narrate to the future generation/s. Something that you can be proud of to have been a witness to. Something that non-fans would go say, "This is awesome."

One that would inspire that little kid somewhere to go out, hone his craft, and play ball. To grow the game and make it even better.

That at the end of it all, the true winner of this one-game spectacle will be the game of basketball. So sit back, and enjoy the show.