“But you can probably tell I’m not sitting here happy go lucky”.
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And three of those clubs then lost the finals.
Yes, the Warriors are stacked, but so are the Cavaliers. The coach confirmed he plans to travel to Cleveland for Games 3 and 4 of this series.
The ultimate championship rubber match, which most everyone expected the moment last year’s Finals ended, begins on Thursday in Oakland and will cap what has been a predictable 82-game regular season and lopsided postseason.
So many questions are out there heading into the 2017 NBA Finals, and the best part is that NBA fans will learn all of the answers as the games unfold and history is made right in front of our eyes. This is obvious, but it’s worth stepping back and really considering the fact that a team that won 73 games last season is now 12-0 in the playoffs, and is heading into the NBA Finals with a healthy Steph Curry and Kevin fucking Durant. Might that push for history have worn them down a bit come the postseason?
Kyrie Irving has also reached a higher plane these playoffs, even after last season’s remarkable performance late in the series to help the Cavs rally from a 3-1 deficit. James and Durant figure to cover each other at small forward; Green has slowed down Cavs power forward Kevin Love in the past, and Cleveland point guard Kyrie Irving is challenging Curry as the best at the position.
Golden State is -7 points for Thursday’s Game 1 National Basketball Association match-up and they are listed at a surprising -260 to win the series.
So here we are again.
Defence has been the question for the Cavaliers all season.
Warriors’ superstar and two-time MVP Stephen Curry believes that this series will in fact be the true test of which team is tops in the league. There’s no way Durant will get held to those sort of numbers.
Curry is appearing in his third straight NBA Finals. This will be James’s seventh in a row and eighth overall, but he is only 3-4 in finals.
Meanwhile, the average “get-in” price for the NBA Finals hosted in Cleveland hasn’t changed much over the past three years: It’s up slightly to $344 this year, compared to $339 in 2016 and $327 in 2015.
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He is averaging 32.5 points per game in these playoffs, eclipsed only by the 35.3 per-game average as a spry 24-year-old in 2009. With the addition of Kevin Durant, Golden State has one of the most impressive starting lineups basketball has ever seen. The Warriors have won all but two of their games by double digits. It’s the first final with teams having a combined one loss since the 1950s. If not, Brown, who replaced him midway through the first round, faces the team he led to the 2007 NBA Finals. The favorite in the opener of the NBA Finals has covered 11 of the past 12 years.
