Those wins gave the Warriors home-court advantage in The Finals, which means if the series goes seven games, a likely scenario, the Warriors will play four games in front of their loud, worshipful fans while the Cavs are blessed with only three games in downtown Cleveland.
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Curry and his teammates earned a day off Tuesday before preparations begin in earnest Wednesday for a Finals rematch against LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers, who lost last season’s title to Golden State in six games.
“You appreciate how tough it is to get back here”, Steph Curry said in his press conference after the game.
“I used the NBA [Finals] series a year ago, an off-topic deal, but [it’s] just the way I think”, Bielema said at the SEC’s spring meetings.
Golden State, who made seven 3-pointers in the first half, got 10 over the final 24 minutes to catch and pass the Thunder, the third-seeded team in the Western playoffs.
“The biggest thing that I’m proud of is we came together and we trusted, and you can see that on the floor”. The two may not be matched up against one another all the time, every play, but they’ll definitely have their fingerprints on everything their team is trying to do.
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Thanks to Thompson’s playoff single-game record 11 3-pointers in the Warriors’ Game 6 win, Thompson set an National Basketball Association record in Game 7 for most 3-pointers in a playoff series.
The man who one game earlier yelled out to the world “We’re not going home”. We beat them everywhere else, they beat us from the 3-point line and that was the series..
The Cavs, though, will also use James, Matthew Dellavedova and Iman Shumpert to defend Golden State’s explosive guards while seeking the opportunity to use Irving on somebody like Shaun Livingston, Harrison Barnes or perhaps even Andre Iguodala. “Obviously, we’ve been through a lot”.
Nonetheless, both basketball superstars expressed profound humility and faith after clinching berths in the 2016 NBA Finals, thanking God for bringing them success.
The NBA Finals tip off Thursday night and the Warriors are in the driver’s seat.
Westbrook is under contract with the Thunder for another season, so it’s pretty obvious what he would say to Durant.
In addition to posting three consecutive straight-up wins to knock off the Thunder, the Warriors have also halted a worrisome 2-5 run against the spread, rewarding bettors by covering in the final three games of the Western Finals.
“No one ever had any doubt we could get this done”, said Draymond Green following the game. “We’re disappointed about not having a different outcome”.
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Will Curry and the Warriors buck the trend again?
