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LeBron, Curry put on show, Game 1 tied at half

“They always kind of talked about the National Basketball Association prime is like 27 [until] like 31, 32”. “Even if you start back to the summer when I felt it was just bad for our franchise to be able to just trade away our superstar point guard”.

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He earned it. James had 20 points on 8-for-9 shooting to carry Cleveland to a 51-45 lead over Golden State. They’ll need to play a ideal game in nearly all facets, and if they don’t the question will persist: were they right to trade Irving? He’s one of the best shooters in the game for a reason.

“This is the biggest difference that I remember between two teams heading into the Finals in my time in the NBA”, said Van Gundy, whose association with the Association dates to 1989.

“It didn’t surprise me, ” Kerr said. Want to go to The NBA Finals and help a great cause?

The Cavaliers, seeded just fourth in the Eastern Conference, had been thumped by 34 points in their only regular-season visit to top-seeded Toronto. “He thought we were up one”, coach Tyronn Lue said. The Warriors’ big four went on a 16-5 run to close out the frame and a bomb from Curry as time expired had the game knotted up at 56.

Curry was the catalyst to the Warriors’ third-quarter outburst in Game 7 with 14 of Golden State’s 33 points.

“For the Warriors, everyone’s talking about how everyone’s gonna win it all, just like that”. He’s now playing in his seventh straight NBA Finals which is insane no matter what way you look at it. “We had a workout before we left Cleveland”. Either of them can get hot and carry the team at a moment’s notice. I woke up this morning, worked out like I always do. “So it’s going to have to be grind-it-out games where the tempo is controlled and to do that you have got to have smart, tough guys on the floor”. The NBA had its most-watched conference finals since 2012, as both teams had to rally from 3-2 deficits to win Game 7s on the road.

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What does he have in store for 2018? “And I didn’t even mention their head coach (Steve Kerr)”. That’s kind of his thing. “So everything else is OK”. So as Round 4 of the record-setting rivalry begins Thursday night, has Warriors-Cavaliers become too much of a good thing? “It’s nearly a day to prepare this time”, he said. “We’ll see what happens”. “If I’m fortunate, I can suit up for – what is it, [107]?”

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