The Golden State Warriors staved off elimination three times to defeat the Oklahoma City Thunder in the Western Conference Finals, and moved one step closer to capping off arguably the best season in National Basketball Association history.
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Not after what Stephen Curry did to him in Game 7, as the Golden State Warriors sprinted past the Oklahoma City Thunder to complete the improbable comeback from a 3-1 series deficit with a 96-88 win to advance to the NBA Finals for the second consecutive year.
Golden State Warriors point guard Steph Curry addresses the media after his team won Game 7 of their Western Conference Final.
If you feel anyway sorry for Oklahoma City Thunder, you must be gutted for Kevin Durant.
Bring on LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers in the NBA Finals, which is a repeat of last season’s championship match-up.
“In games like this, everyone matters”, Warriors general manager Bob Myers said. Once again, Curry’s three-point shooting was to the fore and shone in the final quarter.
Instead of becoming known as the team that knocked off the Warriors after their record-setting 73-win regular season, the Thunder will be remembered for a playoff collapse.
With it, the defending champions set up a rematch with the Cleveland Cavaliers in the NBA Finals beginning Thursday.
Overall, the game and the post game delivered the two top rated programs of the night across both cable and broadcast TV. But once Curry and Klay Thompson started hitting Oklahoma City with a flurry of 3-pointers, the Thunder had no answer.
It didn’t matter because the Warriors had Curry and Thompson, who were making shots like that. The strategy that OKC had to give them the 3-1 series lead worked, but when the pressure is on, people usually go back to what they know, and for the OKC Thunder, that’s hero ball.
“For the most part, I thought Kevin was terrific”, Donovan said. On the other side, the Thunder fell apart in Games 6 and 7. “We beat them everywhere else, but they beat us from the 3-point line – and that was the series”.
“We came in the second half and the Warriors turned it around”, Sanders said, looking for a similar result in his uphill battle against Hillary Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Curry, the two-time MVP, was 13-for-24 from the field, including 7-for-12 from three-point range. “You’ve got to respect a guy like that”.
Westbrook was 7-for-21 with 19 points.
In the end, Thunder fans will likely point at a late foul called on Serge Ibaka on a Curry 3-pointer as the thing that unfairly took the game away from them.
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