“I came back for a reason, and that is to bring a championship to the city of Cleveland”, James said.
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Ayesha Curry drew plenty of headlines after the Warriors’ Game 6 loss to the Cleveland Cavaliers when she let out her frustration and accused the National Basketball Association of rigging the Finals games “for money or ratings”.
James blocked Curry’s shot from behind and then got all mouthy about that and the rest of his concerto as the Cavaliers bullied the Golden State Warriors, sending the NBA Finals back to Oakland, Calif., for Sunday’s Game 7, a television ratings bonanza.
Seventy-five-year-old Billy Bass, of Cleveland, sat outside a Starbucks in downtown Cleveland Sunday feeling certain that the Cavs would beat the Warriors.
“I came back for a reason, and that is to bring a championship to the city of Cleveland, to northeast OH and all of OH and all Cavaliers fans in the world”, James said Saturday.
James scored 41 points in consecutive games to spark Cleveland triumphs and pull the Cavaliers from a 3-1 deficit in the best-of-seven series into a seventh game.
“If you don’t feel pressure in a Game 7, you’re probably not human”, Kerr said.
Curry did not shy away from the negative implications of potentially losing Game 7. The most recent game was marred for the Warriors by Steph Curry’s first career foul-out and subsequent ejection from the game after tossing his mouth guard into the stands out of frustration.
Shumpert made the free throw to give Cleveland a two-point lead, but Stephen Curry answered on the ensuing possession with a three-point play to put the Warriors back on top.
So it should surprise no one that Curry acknowledges what’s at stake in Sunday’s all-or-nothing game and what is being asked of him on the game’s biggest stage.
“We’re trying to win a game, and it doesn’t change anything about anybody on either team, win or lose”. In sleeved jerseys this year, LeBron is 6-0 with an average of 32.1 points, 9.0 rebounds and 6.0 assists per game on 54.2% shooting. “He’s a great player, so he’s going to score”. “What we hear from fans is that this is more for the experience than what they pay”.
Aside from his numbers per game, you’ve then got what he’s done to put his name into other sections of the history books.
They still have a chance to cap their record 73-win regular season in style, but they’ll have to do so with a monster Game 7 effort, from Curry and Klay Thompson and Green as well.
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The Warriors are 11-2 at home this postseason. If Golden State wins, it will mark the first time since the Oakland Athletics won the World Series in 1974 that a Bay Area team won a championship at its home venue.
