NBA: Ranking the 30 best NBA Championship Rings

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Ranking the best championship rings in NBA history: 13. San Antonio Spurs, 2003

The San Antonio Spurs were always viewed as a bit mundane. The team’s first NBA title, which came in 1999, was decent but more so on the plain side. There was nothing extravagant or outlandish about it whatsoever. But once they pocketed their second title in 2003, they took things up a notch.

While most believed that the Los Angeles Lakers would win the next 10 NBA titles, the Spurs found a way to hold them to just three in a row. Once the Lakers were out of the picture, falling to the Spurs in six games in the second round of the playoffs, they had a clear lane to an NBA title.

The Spurs would eventually knockoff the Dallas Mavericks in six games in the Western Conference Finals before doing the same against the New Jersey Nets in the Finals.

With another title in their possession, the Spurs shied away from the sort of low-key ring design that their first championship was derived from. There were seven stones laced across the edges of the ring on both sides. On the top and bottom, the words “world champions” were in big letters. Across the face of the ring were several diamonds in the background while the Spurs logo was draped across the front. That too, was covered in diamonds as well.

It was a huge step up from their first championship ring and the franchise made sure it wasn’t there last.