Revenge is indeed best served cold for the San Antonio Spurs.

Gregg Popovich's dazzlingly efficient basketball machine has utterly embarrassed the defending NBA champions Miami Heat in the Heat's own home court for a second straight time.

The Spurs 107-86 pummeling of the hapless Heat in Game 4 yesterday takes them a game away from exorcising the ghosts of the 2013 finals they lost to Miami.

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The sharp-shooting posse's rout of LeBron James' Heat gave them a 3-1 series lead. The finals now heads to San Antonio where the Spurs can win their fifth title on Sunday in the Big Three era of Tim Duncan, Tony Parker and Manu Ginobili. The Spurs last won the NBA crown in 2007.

The Spurs put on a basketball clinic on great shooting for the second straight game by hitting 57 percent of their shots in Game 4 after making 59 percent of their attempts in Game 3.

It was painful watching the cluelsss Heat submit to a second consecutive thrashing in Game 4 after losing Game 3, 111-92. Game 3 saw the magnificent Spurs set records for basketball efficiency never before seen in the NBA.

The Spurs hit 19 of their first 21 shots and finished 25 of 33 in the first half, setting a new NBA record for offensive efficiency and beating the 75 percent shooting by Orlando Magic against the Los Angeles Lakers in the 2009 finals.

The Spurs hit 13 of 15 shots and led 41-25 after the first quarter.

"I don't think we'll ever shoot 76 percent in a half ever again," said Popovich.

The Spurs led by as much as 25 in Game 3 and were only briefly challenged in their second lopsided victory. They thrashed the Heat, 110-95, in Game 1.

Saying the Spurs blew away the Heat in Game 4 in a gross understatement. The Heat never led in the game and fell behind by 23 points in the third quarter, traditionally their strongest.

Miami now owns the dubious distinction of being the only NBA finalists to have been blown away by 15 points or more in the finals.

The Spurs again destroyed Miami's defense by its brilliant and bewildering passing game. Its crisp, bullet-like passes left Miami's defenders on the wrong foot and gave the Spurs easy threes or uncontested twos.

The soft spoken Kawhi Leonard scored 20 points and grabbed 14 rebounds to lead the Spurs to a comfortable Game 4 win. He was also top scorer in Game 3 with a career high 29 points.

Leonard went 7-of-12 while point guard Tony Parker scored 19 points on 8-of-15 shooting. Patty Mills shot 5-of-8 for 14 points.

The Spurs also got a big lift from French power forward Boris Diaw, who scored eight points, hauled down nine rebounds and made nine assists.

Four-time NBA Most Valuable Player LeBron James scored 28 points and grabbed eight rebounds but got pitifully little help from his teammates.

The other two members of Miami's Big Three, Chris Bosh and Dwyane Wade, scored just 12 points and 10 points, respectively.

Until Game 4, the Heat had not lost two consecutive playoff games since 2011, when they were defeated 4-2 by the Dallas Mavericks in the NBA Finals.

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