Every Spurs starter scored at least 14 points.
Spurs should have scored and United could have scored more.
The Spurs scored just 25 points in the two middle periods, making 5 of 34 shots, or 14.7 percent.
Early in the final period, the Spurs scored 9 straight points to go up, 102-91.
The Spurs scored only 9 points in the first 10 minutes 28 seconds of the final period, which began with the Suns leading, 78-73.
But the Spurs scored 9 of the next 11 points to surge ahead, and the Nets did not threatened again.
The 73 points were the fewest the Spurs have scored in a game.
The Spurs scored less than 80 points for the fifth time this season and the eighth time in franchise history.
With Duncan dominating, the Spurs scored the first 12 points of the fourth to put the game away.
Immediately after his first timeout, the Spurs scored on two consecutive dunks.