An NBA Finals game unlike any other

Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty ImagesI have been writing about the NBA Playoffs for a long time. In my pre-Pounding the Rock days, I wrote what I called a Fake Blog — because it was just an email I sent to guys I played ball with. In one of those Fake Blogs, I wrote about the upcoming 2013 Western Conference Finals match-up between OKC and the Spurs, comparing the Thunder’s outstanding young sixth man to the San Antonio’s not-as-young sixth man:

OKC’s outstanding young off-guard is James Harden — and his game is a spitting image of my man Manu Ginobili’s. Both players are left-handed, attack the rim with abandon, comfortably step back to shoot the three, and are such good passers that they often…