Two years ago Kevin Durant joined the Golden State Warriors because he wanted to grow as a player and as a person. And on Friday night, he celebrated not only his second championship with the team, but his second NBA Finals MVP award as well.
History suggests that when James senses he doesn’t have enough help to win, he goes and finds it elsewhere.
With the 2018 NBA Finals all but wrapped up, all eyes are turning toward the future of LeBron James, which is to say the future of the NBA. LeBron has led his team to the NBA Finals in each of the past eight years, so where James decides to play in the 2018-19 season obviously has major ramifications.
Steph Curry and Kevin Durant were brilliant, and the Warriors now control the series.
When the Golden State Warriors play well, they are virtually unbeatable. That was on full display during Sunday’s Game 2 of the NBA Finals against the Cleveland Cavaliers. Golden State made their first seven shots of the game, by getting to the rim at will.
Kevin Durant powers the Warriors to a commanding 3-0 series lead
If there was one word that can sum up Game 3 of the 2018 NBA Finals, it would be predictable.
The Warriors didn’t need more points. Livingston didn’t want a turnover. What to do, what to do?
In the final seconds of Game 1 of the NBA Finals, there was a kerfuffle that almost escalated into a rhubarb. Tristan Thompson was ejected, but before he left the court, he lived the dream of millions of people, pushing a basketball into Draymond Green’s face. It was the only possible ending to a game that was so exhausting and bizarre, and it’s at least going to cost Thompson some money.
Pretty damn screwed.
When LeBron James left the Cleveland Cavaliers in 2010, it crushed that franchise. But fortune and one killer trade helped the Cavaliers quickly amass some assets, enough to make a 2014 return to Cleveland for LeBron alluring.
By Roy Afable
Three-time NBA Champion and Spurs Legend Bruce Bowen is here in Manila to join Pinoy hoops fans for live viewing of the 2018 NBA Finals from June 1 – 4. He will also be doing some charity while in the country as part of the NBA Cares program.
We have that and more in Monday’s NBA newsletter.
One of the biggest revelations of the 2018 NBA playoffs has been that the Warriors aren’t necessarily unstoppable. The Rockets darn near stopped them cold in the West finals, and the Cavaliers almost peeled off Game 1 of the NBA Finals in Oakland.
OAKLAND — After delivering one of the greatest Finals performances of all time, LeBron James was asked to do the impossible. He had already scored 51 points and brought the Cavaliers to within seconds of pulling off a shocking upset over his arch-nemesis Golden State Warriors in Game 1 of the NBA Finals.
