There was nothing but competition on primetime last as Game 2 of the NBA Finals saw the Golden State Warriors beat the Cleveland Cavaliers 110-77 on ABC and the nation’s capitol representative was crowned Miss USA on Fox.
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CLEVELAND (AP) – Cavaliers forward Kevin Love has been cleared to travel after suffering a concussion in Game 2 of the NBA Finals. That’s down about 8 percent from the nearly 18.8 million viewers for Game 2 between the same teams in 2015, when the Cavaliers won in OT to even the series at 1-1. Love has been placed in concussion protocol, the Cavs said.
Curry has been a focal point for not just the Warriors, but the National Basketball Association as well, and has become a global icon who is as recognizable as LeBron James and Michael Jordan. “I’ve got to be better”.
Barbosa has 21 points in the two games on only 12 shots. The Cavs have seemed overmatched in the first two games of this series, especially in game two. Game 3 is Wednesday in Cleveland. And the Cavaliers are down 0-2 despite keeping Warriors’ sharpshooters Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson in check so far. According to Marc Stein of ESPN.com, “He also joined Steve Nash and his coach, Steve Kerr, as the only players in league history to shoot at least 50 percent from the floor, 45 percent from three-point range and 90 percent from the line in a season”. He didn’t need anyone to remind him that only one team in the last 39 years – the 2006 Miami Heat, with his close friend Dwyane Wade taking over – successfully rallied from an 0-2 hole in the title series.
The Golden State Warriors guard cited resting his knee – which he sprained in the first round of the National Basketball Association playoffs against the Houston Rockets – as one of the reasons why he was opting out.
“What we’ve done these last two games doesn’t put a damper or a cloud over how we got to this point”, James said. That may have led to Cavaliers’ fans in particular exiting early; it’s notable that Cleveland still tied for the best local rating here (with San Francisco) with a 32.1, but that was well below the 36.0 it posted in Game 1, while San Francisco’s drop-off was more gradual (32.8 to 32.1).
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“There’s no point in celebrating or jumping up and down and saying ‘Look at us, ‘” Curry said. Obviously Cleveland doesn’t have the same length as Oklahoma, so that might be the one thing that OKC really bothered us with. “We’re two games away from winning a championship”.
