He needed a change, and wanted a chance to win the championship that had eluded him.
The Cavaliers are, nearly assuredly, not going to win the NBA Finals. James rested for the first 97 seconds of the fourth quarter but two quick Warriors' 3-pointers hastened his return as Golden State surged within 115-104. With the Warriors at the doorstep of capturing a title, Durant seems ready to break the door down. His best season was 2010, when he led the National Football League with 115 catches and had a career-best 1,389 receiving yards.
Durant took time to adjust to his new teammates and duties but bounced back from a late-season injury smoothly back into his role. And with the Cleveland Cavaliers down 3-0 to the Golden State Warriors, one would think tonight's matchup would be at the forefront of most basketball fans' minds.
With Leonard gone, the Warriors erased a 25-point deficit, won the game, and have been cruising ever since. "I didn't talk to these guys when I made my decision and say we better make it to the Finals and be up in the series around this time, this exact date, or I'm not coming".
One reason for the Warriors' dominant playoff run was the acquisition of Durant in the offseason.
"The magnitude of the game, it hit me in a very deep place", Irving said. The Warriors have won 107 consecutive games, going back to November 2014, when they shoot better than 50 percent. The Cavaliers, last year's champions, have been overmatched and overwhelmed. And I'm not one to judge and say if it's fair or not if guys are adding players to their team.
Durant was a star at Oklahoma City but left last July as a free agent to sign with the Warriors, smarting from a loss to Cleveland in last year's NBA Finals when they were one win shy of a repeat crown.
"They're all right", Kerr deadpanned. But winning cures everything.
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However, the best yet are the comparisons between this Golden State squad and the 2010-14 Miami Heat.
The Cavaliers are no match for these Warriors, not even with arguably the best player on the planet in LeBron James. He was celebrated. Durant has been celebrated already for his play, passion and drive in this series. "Right now it's warriors", Noe Lopez with the store said.
No team in National Basketball Association history has come back from an 0-3 deficit to win a best-of-seven series, and Cleveland will try to become the first.
In fact, an adjustment to a rule making it hard to sign older players to massive, long contracts will actually make it easier to retain Curry and Durant into their late 30s, if the Warriors so choose. In Game 3 they fought back, made it close again, even took the lead themselves.
As painful as that experience was previous year, Kerr believed it helped the Warriors in the long run and they've grown from it. "We set a lot of records since we kind of assembled this team the last couple years". "And we have had some good fortune, too".
The Atlanta Falcons will hold a special retirement ceremony for Michael Vick and Roddy White, the team announced on Friday.Falcons owner Arthur Blank will honor White and Vick at a special ceremony on Monday.'We consider all former Falcons to be Falcons for life, and part of our family, ' Blank said. We're more talented with KD obviously.
"If we bring our A game and play smart enough, we'll do it". We've been through the wars both good and bad. Maybe, but I don't think Durant sees it that way - what he wanted was his best shot at a title, and he's going to get that.
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