On Thursday night, Ayesha Curry had plenty to say during Game 6, just after Steph’s ejection. In doing so, she joined a list of spouses who have brought added and sometimes unwanted attention to their husbands on the playing field with social media posts.
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One official in particular called Game 6 that the Warriors seem to have trouble with.
But this is why James came back to Cleveland from Miami, to finish what he started, to give the city its first major sports title since 1964.
An tension-packed atmosphere of excitement will fill the NBA’s oldest venue for the epic contest, the 19,600-seat Oracle Arena having been built half a century ago. “So I will play it anywhere”.
Nine months of work for both clubs from the first days of training camp will come down to 48 minutes of effort, or over-time.
Now he’s got one more game to give the Cavaliers their first championship.
Foster is so controversial that the National Basketball Association took Foster off the call for Game 7 of the Western Conference Finals, perhaps hoping to avert accusations over ill will towards Golden State.
The one consolation for Golden State is home advantage in the finale, after dominating the regular season with a 73-9 record.
Stephen Curry was ejected late in the game arguing a seemingly innocuous pressuring of LeBron James after a rebound – after being mauled by multiple Cleveland defenders and repeatedly not receiving a whistle – prompting the MVP to toss his mouthpiece into the stands, hitting not just any fan, but Andrew Forbes, the son of a Cavaliers co-owner.
“It’s either win the whole thing or bust for us”, Thompson said. “It’s no fun getting second place”. So it would be a great season, but at the same time to us, the players, we’re so competitive, we would feel like we failed. Or we’ll hear about how Cleveland had no competition in the East. Or the conversation will turn to a 2-6 career Finals record (as if hypothetically going 2-2, and winning the East only four times instead of eight, would somehow be more impressive than going 2-6).
James, in his sixth consecutive NBA Finals and seventh overall, led his home-region Cavaliers to the 2007 finals, where they were swept by San Antonio, and in 2010 left for Miami.
With forward Andre Iguodala dealing with a back issue, Golden State coach Steve Kerr may have to switch Draymond Green on James for Game 7. He scored 18 straight points bridging the third and fourth quarters, and scored or assisted on 27 in a row and 35 of 36 while saddling his teammates and 20,000 fans on those broad shoulders and carrying them to the cusp of a title.
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Willis Reed made a dramatic return from a leg injury to spark NY over the Lakers 113-99 in the 1970 decider.
