“There’s fouls on every play, it’s a physical game”.
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Ayesha Curry, however, tweeted after the Warriors’ 115-101 loss to the Cleveland Cavaliers that her father was racially profiled.
It all unfolded over the span of 10 seconds late in the fourth quarter beginning with LeBron blocking Curry under the basket and then taunting him.
James delivered another epic performance in an elimination game and the Cavs saved their season for the second time in four days.
“Forty-eight minutes left”, Curry said. However, Curry was ejected after throwing his mouthpiece into the stands when he fouled out of the game with 4:22 remaining. He then threw his mouth piece and cursed at the referee.
It wasn’t fair that Draymond Green, the “heart and soul” of the team, was suspended for Game 5, he said, nor that Curry was ejected during Game 6. “It’s a weird feeling. His shooting can come and go, but the last two games, he’s really shot the ball”.
Will the National Basketball Association deem that Curry tried to hit the official with his mouthpiece? “One you don’t want to foul out”.
“At the end of the day, I’m going to give my teammates everything I got”, James said, referring to Game 7. “So, yeah, it’s frustrating, but the work we’ve put in and the opportunity we’ve given ourselves with a Game 7 to win the finals at home, you’ve got to be excited about that”.
Curry finished with 30 points on 8-for-20 shooting including six 3-pointers.
“He should be upset”, Warriors coach Steve Kerr said.
The NBA’s title tilt offers the league’s MVP a chance at redemption.
“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”, James said.
LeBron James came out on fire as he led the Cleveland Cavaliers to a Game six victory and forced the series to a decisive finale.
That call was made by Jason Phillips, who Donaghy notes “blatantly missed the take foul in the OKC series”. He’s the fifth player in NBA Finals history to post back-to-back games of 40 or more, a club whose only other members are Jerry West, Shaquille O’Neal, Rick Barry and Michael Jordan.
Kerr will be fined for his comments.
“They don’t care”, James said. In Game 6, Thompson was 6-6 from the field and and took four free throws.
The Cleveland Cavaliers were down 3-1 going into Game 5 of the NBA Finals.
“We feel like we could have closed it out a long time ago, but here we are”, Warriors guard Klay Thompson told reporters.
And just like Monday’s loss without Green, Blanco believes the Warriors need Andrew Bogut, who is out for the rest of the series with a knee injury. In the third quarter, when the Warriors started to close the 20-point gap and the team went on a 10-point run, the arena was so electric, so packed, so delirious, you nearly expected to see the Warriors on the floor. The Warriors are only the third team to be taken to a seventh game after being up 3-1, the first in half a century.
But this was far from flawless for Cleveland. He went the final 17 minutes without a field goal.
West has been an executive board member with the Warriors since 2011 and widely is regarded as the behind-the-scenes architect of the current team, and Walton is an unabashed Warriors fan until his son, Luke, coaches his last game with them in Game 7 before taking over as Lakers head coach.
The Cavs jumped out to a big lead, ahead 31 to 11 after the first quarter. Tristan Thompson had 16 rebounds and went 6 of 6 from the floor.
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That ended when Smith hit a three from the top of the circle. When that happened, Thompson had a clear run to the rim and and scored an easy two points off a lob from LeBron. Unfortunately for them, most of the events are ones they’d probably rather forget.
