Check out the San Antonio Spurs' great looking championship rings

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The tip-off of the 2014-15 NBA season saw the San Antonio Spurs raise their fifth championship banner and accept their championship rings in a ceremony prior to their contest with the Dallas Mavericks. The rings themselves look pretty great and show the exact class and flash you'd expect out of something made for the Spurs. They're not overly gaudy but they're also flashy enough to be noticed.

Here's the press release from the Spurs describing the rings:

The 2014 NBA Championship rings were presented to the San Antonio Spurs on Tuesday, Oct. 28 as the team tipped off the 2014-15 season. Herff Jones is honored to have been chosen to create the 2014 NBA Championship ring for the San Antonio Spurs.

The Championship ring contains more than three ounces of 14 carat white gold with 5.09 total carat weight of diamonds. The top includes 76 round, 10 princess cut, and four baguette diamonds. Around the edge of the top are 42 round diamonds.

The left side of the ring showcases the player's name and number along with the NBA logo and winning year 2014. The right side of the ring showcases the Spurs “Pounding the Rock” symbol containing 22 round diamonds. There are five sparks shooting out from the rock which will contain the number of diamonds that coincide with the number of championships an individual player is associated with.

Masters of Design, which was acquired by Herff Jones in 2009, was chosen to create the 2014 NBA Championship ring for the San Antonio Spurs. Prior to that, Masters of Design created the 1999, 2003, 2005, and 2007 NBA Championship rings for the team.

The "Good to Great" inscription (seen in the second pic below) on the inside of the rings is a cool saying to exist on these rings and commemorate the run the Spurs went on to secure the jewelry. The Spurs overcame a devastating loss to the Miami Heat in Game 6 and Game 7 of the 2013 NBA Finals, only to come back last season and be even better than we had previously seen them. They never let the experience and loss rattle them from executing the job at hand.

The result was a historic championship run in which they obliterated opponents when they won and finished off the job in convincing fashion against the Heat in five games this past postseason.