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Curses line sports lore, most of them figments of fans’ imaginations.   Believe in them at your own peril.   Maybe there is something to this one.   The curse of the Southwest Division triumph?   Since the San Antonio Spurs secured their third title in 2005, the winner of the NBA’s most cutthroat cluster of teams has failed to recapture that magic.   The Spurs won the division in 2006 and lost in the Western Conference semifinals to the Dallas Mavericks.   Mark Cuban’s team followed up its first Finals appearance—and the team-defining collapse to the Miami Heat—with 67 wins and the division by a margin of 10 games.   The Mavs lost in the first round to the eighth-seeded Golden State Warriors. The Spurs won their fourth champi ...

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