Ginobili admits San Antonio caught a 'lucky' break

By foxsports
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This Clippers-Spurs series could honestly go either way, despite San Antonio holding a 3-2 lead heading into Thursday night's critical Game 6. 

At the end of Game 5, Clippers center DeAndre Jordan's illegal basket interference waived off a potential go-ahead bucket, and the Clippers lost by four. Spurs guard Manu Ginobili recognizes how fortunate his team was to pull that one out, according to the Los Angeles Times:

"It was the play of the game. That's why I said we got lucky. The ball was going in and he happened to touch it. About five seconds to go and we could have been down one. We could have won it anyway. But it was a completely different ballgame. So, yeah, we got a little lucky on the play."

These teams are literally separated by inches; a few bounces of the ball in a different direction and Los Angeles could already have four wins. But that's not how things have gone down so far. Instead, lady luck is smiling on San Antonio.

(h/t: Los Angeles Times)

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