While others wilt in do-or-die games, James thrives. Green has four points and three rebounds in 13 minutes, but hasn’t been the rim protector he’s known to be.
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It didn’t feel like Kyrie could miss a shot for large swaths of Game 5. Irving tallied six assists and two steals, as well as a blocked shot. “I mean, defensively he did a lot of good things”. They were down 17 in Game 3. Curry scored 38 points and hit seven 3-pointers.
Ayesha Curry is in the building.
Golden State Warriors, from the Western Conference, defeated Houston Rockets (4-1), Portland Trail Blazers (4-1) and Oklahoma City Thunder (4-3) to progress to the Finals during the Playoffs stage.
For those that want to watch Game 6 on Thursday, it can be seen on TV on ABC. “Anywho… (hashtag)LetsGoWarriors!!!!!” she tweeted.
“I have to be better for my team-mates, as a leader of this team”. We realized it was a six-point game with six-and-a-half minutes left, and a couple bad shots and a couple good makes by them broke it open.
Two years after being traded from the Minnesota Timberwolves, the Kevin Love experiment in Cleveland has not yielded the results the Cavaliers were expecting. He’s on the bench.
Stephen Curry got into Quicken Loans Arena without difficulty. In a subsequent tweet, she sent a photo from the bus as if to illustrate the troubles passengers were having with security letting them off and into the building. “Interesting tactic though. Again”, she wrote.
Teams have won at home in consecutive years, but to do it in the same road locale has only happened once before – the Boston Celtics celebrated on the Los Angeles Lakers’ home floor in back-to-back years, 1968 and 1969.
That includes coach Tyronn Lue’s plan to start Love no matter what lineup the Golden State Warriors deploy in the wake of losing injured Andrew Bogut for the series. He would likely need one more signature game or more to earn his first Finals MVP. It’s known simply as “The Q” – and that doesn’t stand for quiet. The Cavs are 8-1 at home during the postseason.
“Monday was tough. But, sitting in the A’s suite, the support I had was tremendous from my friends, my family, from the organization, from our general manager Bob Myers, from my agent B.J. Armstrong coming over”.
LeBron James, too, senses Cleveland’s excitement. “The NBA community is a very special one and this is a great honor”.
Asked about James, Green changed his tone and said, “He’s a great player”. “We want him to play better, but we don’t want to add no more stress on him or added pressure”. The two were called for a double foul on the court but the league reviewed the play and gave James a technical foul and Green a Flagrant 1, which pushed him past the limit in the league’s point system and netted him a suspension.
His coach didn’t need to hear any apology. Without you we’re not even here.
“He helped us win”, James said of Love.
Let’s revisit the 1981-82 Lakers, who won the National Basketball Association title in the third year of Showtime with a young Magic Johnson and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in his late prime. So whatever happened last game or before that is meaningless.
Hoop fans are being reminded that it has always required more than finesse and outside shooting to win titles, no matter how extraordinary the players.
Golden State leads the series 3-2, and can clinch on Cleveland’s floor for the second straight year with a win Thursday.
There will be opportunities for Love and others in Game 6 because the Warriors will do their best to slow James and Irving.
For Cavaliers, they had an fantastic night with 112 points.
The Republican takeover could cause a logistical problem if there is a Game 7 on Sunday.
In the 2013 finals, he twice helped Miami stave off elimination against San Antonio before the Heat beat the Spurs in seven games. It’s the first time Sager will work an NBA Finals game.
Sager and Kerr worked together for almost a decade when Kerr was in broadcasting.
“I was excited”, Kerr said.
Movie time. Nap time. The impact is that way in large part is due to SF LeBron James and PG Kyrie Irving’s need to have the ball in their hands.
No better chance to prove it than Game 6.
I like the Curry shoes far more than I like the Curry shtick. “Whatever it takes. I don’t care if they’ve got to score 100”.
Several players come to mind: Kevin McHale with the Celtics; Michael Cooper with the Lakers; Scottie Pippen and Dennis Rodman with the Bulls; and in recent times, the Spurs’ Kawhi Leonard and the Cavs’ LeBron James. That’s what I look forward to doing.
How can the Cavaliers force Game 7? Everyone knows that the Warriors’ attack is fueled by Curry and Klay Thompson, and Cleveland has frustrated both at times.
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Trust me, I could not possibly care less what anyone thinks about how uncool my shoes are – or how unhip I am for wearing them.
