Breen, 56, has broadcast over two decades of National Basketball Association games, primarily with the New York Knicks, but his ascent to ABC’s top job has coincidentally coincided with LeBron James’ rise to superstardom.
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Jeff Van Gundy and Mark Jackson say twice reigning league MVP Stephen Curry and Kevin Durant are so good that the Warriors will not unravel even if other players have an off night. We’ve had some serious, serious days, probably a little more serious than coach anticipated in terms of how we’ve been getting after each other. “Guess who is back?” and then saying, “Hello NBA Finals, I missed you”.
“Are you going to be happy with the outcome if you lose?” The Cavs struggled to defend the Warriors’ sharp-shooters a year ago, so the addition of Durant will only make life more miserable, as LeBron James can attest. So to me, I think it’s a great result for the National Basketball Association.
“I was living those odds”, he said.
Really, credit the Warriors for making this look so easy when it’s really not.
“I’m just trying to be the best me I can be”.
Small forwards: The Cavaliers’ LeBron James is the best all-around player on the planet and may be the greatest National Basketball Association player of all time. Even though they have numerous same key players as the last two years, it is a bit hard for anyone other than hard-core Warrior fans to root for a Death Star.
According to the odds makers in Las Vegas and the number crunchers at analytical sites, the Warriors are the clear favorites to win the series after sweeping their way through the playoffs with a record-setting margin of victory of 16.3 points per game. So I think it’s great to have greatness. Pachulia is back and ready to go after missing two games in the Western Conference finals with a heel injury.
James continued, “It just goes to show that racism will always be a part of the world, a part of America”.
Beginning Thursday night in Oakland, Breen will call his 12th Finals in a row for ABC as the Cleveland Cavaliers and Golden State Warriors clash for an unprecedented third straight time.
Breen called games on Knicks radio when Van Gundy was an assistant coach under Pat Riley and Jackson played for NY. The Cavs won Games 5 and 7 there a year ago.
But maybe this year is different. I got that promotion when I got to the 30s.
Prediction: Both teams are red-hot. They’re rested. They’re healthy. “I’m sure come tip-off tomorrow, when I’m looking at those guys in that uniform, it will feel even more that way, but right now just kind of taking everything in stride”.
Durant, who previously faced James in the 2012 Finals with Oklahoma City, has taken a great team and elevated it to a almost unstoppable level. But some of the competition suffered because of it.
The record-setting coach has not been on the bench since the second game of this year’s playoffs as he deals with lingering issues from back surgery last year. “I know we look forward to the challenge”.
We will all have to wait and see how this series unfolds to find out.
One of the reasons the Warriors have been so dominant in recent years is due to their depth.
Q. Sorry to piggyback off the parity thing again, but just to talk about it a bit more.
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Many of us, me included, rooted for the Warriors in the last two finals.
