Crows Ambassador Patty Mills has helped guide San Antonio to an NBA Championship.
Mills got his team out to a championship-winning lead in the third quarter of game five against Miami on Monday morning (Australian time).
The 25-year-old Australian went on a destructive 11-point run in five minutes to get the Spurs' lead to 20 points. All up, he scored 17 points in his 18 minutes on the court. He shot six for 10, including five of eight three-pointers. He also had a rebound and two assists.
The Spurs won the game 104-87 to claim the Championship and avenge last year’s heartbreaking Finals series loss to the Heat.
Mills is the first Indigenous Australian to win a Championship ring. Mills and Boomers teammate Aron Baynes, who is also part of the Spurs squad, follow Luc Longley and Andrew Gaze as Aussies to win championship rings. Longley won three rings with Michael Jordan's Chicago Bulls in the 1990s while Gaze earned one with the Spurs in 1999.
A lifelong Crows fan, Mills has been an Ambassador of the Adelaide Football Club since 2011.
Mills adds a Championship ring to the incredible list of feats achieved by our sporting Ambassadors.
