It ought to be. He played three years of varsity baseball at Columbia High School as a pitcher and has extensive knowledge of other professional sports like the NFL, NBA, and National Hockey League.
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“He’s coming after a generation of people like Tiger Woods and Michael Jordan who put making money ahead of their compassion and refused to get involved in these issues”. The Warriors also added arguably the greatest scorer ever in Kevin Durant, and have swept their way through the playoffs.
We are in the age of the super-team.
So finally, some drama.
“It’s only going to get harder from here”, Iguodala said. “It kills you. But we learned from it”, said Warriors guard Klay Thompson.
WHAT HOME-COURT ADVANTAGE? The Cavaliers’ nine-game postseason road winning streak, three shy of the 2001-02 Lakers’ league record, started with victories a year ago in Games 5 and 7 in Oakland.
Beaten past year by Cleveland’s historic comeback, the Warriors will try to avenge that defeat and get back on top when they face the Cavaliers again, the first time two teams have met three straight times in the NBA Finals. Emotions are already running high from previous year, when things got chippy between the Warriors dynamic hybrid forward Draymond Green and James.
Forget all the things Cleveland did wrong offensively in Game 1, the poor shooting and the 20 turnovers and how the bench basically contributed nothing and how Rihanna got – and merited – more commentary from ABC’s Jeff Van Gundy than J.R. Smith and Tristan Thompson did. “But one thing about us, it’s all about us”. A paper on the civil rights movement, a discussion of race in a history classroom – these are places one could expect to hear Till’s name.
But, instead of worrying about trying to overcome Steph Curry and Kevin Durant, he has had to deal with a racial attack.
The Warriors took a little time getting accustomed to each other, worked through some injuries and posted another 67-win season.
Another stat that destroys the argument of people saying that James isn’t as clutch as Jordan is when there’s less than five seconds left in a playoff game that’s a potential game victor, Jordan is 5-11 and James is 6-12. “Muhammad Ali assumed that risk – for social justice – now LeBron is too”. Much is made of his 3-4 record in NBA Finals series. The last time it happened in any major North American team sport came in 1954-56 when Detroit and Montreal squared off in three straight Stanley Cup Finals.
On Tuesday, the Serbian women’s volleyball team qualified for the 2018 FIVB Women’s World Championship in Japan and took a celebration photograph with many team members pulling back their eyes to make them slanted.
“Nothing like this is going to affect his psyche in terms of the Finals”. They shoot with incredible accuracy.
James wasn’t a good 3-point shooter during his first stint in Cleveland, and that was reflected in his crunch-time numbers, which were right around league average. Then Durant joined them.
Golden State leads series 1-0. When the Warriors are healthy and locked in, they can’t be well-guarded.
Cleveland can score, and Cleveland is playing much better defense than it did in the regular season. Per NBA.com, Golden State has allowed 99.1 points per 100 possessions, which are the fewest through three rounds.
The Warriors were a fantastic team.
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The fear for Golden State entering Thursday was that its best defensive option on James would be slowed by the knee soreness that sidelined Iguodala for Game 2 of the Western Conference finals against San Antonio.
