James dismissed talk that he might become only the second player to be named the NBA Finals MVP even if the Cavaliers lost, keeping a philosophical attitude about defeat and staying in the moment, even one as exciting as the approaching contest he compared to an NFL Super Bowl. Cleveland won 115-101. My reasoning was that the Cavaliers had impressed me in their march through the Eastern Conference, even as lowly as it is.
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Lose the game, and the Warriors will have suffered the ignominy of becoming the first team in league history to collapse in the NBA Finals after having led the series 3-1.
“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. Also, given Cleveland’s lack in cap space, the chances for signing a “more cohesive, effective” group of players for James to play alongside with is slim to none.
“They haven’t made any adjustments yet to see what we can do differently”.
While Curry said he needed to play his best game of the year in Game 7, the Warriors also need to slow James after back-to-back 41-point performances where he dominated and talked trash to the unanimous MVP.
For once in this dominant season, I’m not convinced home-court advantage matters for the Warriors. “I’ve been getting treatment around the clock. But I’m glad we caught it early as opposed to happening in game seven”.
As Hall of Fame point guard Isiah Thomas and Oscar-winning actor Jamie Foxx looked on, James kissed his mom, Gloria, and hopped into his Mercedes-Benz luxury van for the ride to Akron.
Whatever happens, this has the potential to be a Game 7 for the ages.
Coverage from Oracle Arena begins at 4:00 p.m. Sunday on KPUG. “They were the best regular-season team in history”. It wasn’t just his second straight 40-point game of the Finals, it was the fact that he scored 18 points straight for Cleveland during one second-half stretch to keep the Warriors at arm’s length.
“The two best words ever”.
James and the Cavaliers are now down 3-2 in the series, and a loss on Game six scheduled for Thursday at the Quicken Loans Arena would mark a second consecutive unsuccessful championship run for the team.
Once the game began, that road -unimpeded by Green’s steamer-trunk frame -led straight to the basket.
“The training staff has been doing a hell of a job, just making sure I’m good”, he said. James enters this Game 7 coming off two of the best performances of his career, and the Cavs are punishing the defending champs the same way the Thunder did: switching like insane, capitalizing on turnovers and empowering their stars to make plays.
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“We’ll see how he’s feeling tomorrow”, Kerr said.”But it’s game seven and he’s Andre Iguodala, so we know he’ll be out there”. And I start to learn from my mistakes and break into the film and seeing the ways that they’re defending me, the ways they’re defending our team, ways I can be a little more efficient.
