The Golden State Warriors are the favorites to defeat the Cleveland Cavaliers in the NBA Finals for the second year in a row and win the NBA Championship.
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The Cavaliers may be playing with a more complete line-up for this year’s National Basketball Association finals edition, but the big question would be if the addition of Kryie Irivng, Kevin Love, and LeBron James would be enough to contain the “Splash Brothers” Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson, along with Draymond Green.
“Our city deserves it. Our fans deserve it”, James said. “If there’s a smaller scale of another word for rival, the fact that we’re going back-to-back is pretty unique”.
In 2015 the Cavaliers were undermanned – Kevin Love was injured in the first round of the play-offs and Kyrie Irving’s troublesome left knee ensured he played only one game against Golden State – leaving LeBron James to fend for himself against arguably the best shooting team of all time. Knowing Kev was out and Ky was dealing with injuries from the first round.
The 2016 NBA Finals matchup is set.
“Having our team at full strength, and the way I feel personally, I appreciate this moment, to be a part of it once again”.
Curry, a unanimous choice in repeating as NBA MVP, is gunning to join Boston Celtics great Bill Russell, Chicago Bulls legend Michael Jordan and James as the NBA’s only back-to-back MVP, NBA title winners.
“Anderson played one minute, 51 seconds, and he had two assists, a basket, and he took a charge, and his hair was flying everywhere, and he was howling these emotional shrieks and yells that was getting the crowd going and his teammates going”, Kerr said.
James and the Cavs were swept by San Antonio in the 2007 finals and three years later he departed for Miami. The Cleveland Cavaliers have never won the Larry O’Brien Trophy, and the Golden State Warriors are looking to make it two rings in a row.
This is what you need to know about when the NBA Finals start, who is in the NBA finals, what channel the NBA Finals are on and more. “And I don’t want to lose it again”.
Pluto jokes that his friends have advised him to stop making predictions because they’re usually wrong (although he did correctly predict the Cavs-Raptors series would go six games). They tried to grind us to a pulp previous year playing big, and they were slowing the ball down, slowing the pace down…. “We’re still not satisfied”. The two may not be matched up against one another all the time, every play, but they’ll definitely have their fingerprints on everything their team is trying to do. “We’re ready for anything”. They stormed their way through the playoffs with a 12-2 record to get back to the Finals. I’ll have to wait and see when I really face them on the court when I get to Cleveland.
As for the big picture, SportsBettingDime.com has 5-to-2 odds that Golden State will repeat as champions in six games.
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Curry made a playoff-record 32 three-point shots for a seven-game series and his backcourt partner Thompson hit 30, including a playoff game record of 11 three-pointers.
