NBA Most Valuable Player Stephen Curry says it could take the best game of his career for the Golden State Warriors to beat Cleveland in Sunday’s winner-take-all title showdown.
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The Warriors could have clinched the National Basketball Association championship with a win, but several calls went in favor of the Cleveland Cavaliers, taking the series to Game 7.
Afterward James said of the 3-1 comeback jinx: “Records are made to be broken”. James scored 41 points for the second consecutive game, while point guard Kyrie Irving added 23 and center Tristan Thompson chipped in 15 points and 16 rebounds. In the past two games, the Cavaliers have scored 115.6 points and allowed 91.3 points per 100 possessions with James on the court.
With the win, the Cavaliers also kept alive their quest for a maiden NBA title that would be Cleveland’s first professional sports championship since the 1964 Cleveland Browns of the National Football League.
The NBA fined Curry $25,000 for the outburst, but he is cleared to play in Game 7. The mouthpiece inadvertently hit a fan who was sitting courtside, and Curry was ejected from the game.
Kerr became impatient with three of the six fouls that were labeled on Curry in the game.
“We look at it from the perspective that we’ve got nothing to lose”, Cavaliers forward Richard Jefferson said. “Hasn’t been anything flawless about it. So, yeah, it’s frustrating, but the work we’ve put in and the opportunity we’ve given ourselves with a Game 7 to win the finals at home, you’ve got to be excited about that”.
James has averaged 34.4 points in five previous Game 7 appearances, including in the 2013 Finals, which he won.
James, playing in the Finals for a sixth year in a row including four in Miami, did not view Game Seven as pressure-packed.
Stephen Curry’s wife spoke out loudly on social media with a tweet suggesting Thursday night’s Game 6 was rigged. “But most importantly, Curry did apologize nearly immediately to the supporters after he threw the mouthpiece” Kerr articulated.
If you ask me, 2016 might serve up something else to remember – LeBron James named series MVP, no matter the result.
At one point she even alleges that police racially profiled her father.
“It got the best of me”, he said, “but I’ll be all right for next game”.
Opinion: LeBron James. The name sets off a reaction in any National Basketball Association fan. “But those three of the six fouls were incredibly inappropriate calls for anybody, much less the MVP of the league”. He’s been more aggressive, I think, shooting the ball. “We had two shaky games in Golden State to start the series, and you know, you can always prepare for them, but until you get in-between those lines and see how fast they move, how hard they cut, how hard they play, you really can’t get a gauge for it. I thought Game 1 was that test for us”.
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CLEVELAND The level of tension is growing rapidly for the Golden State Warriors.
