Cleveland beckons, and it's a place the Warriors do not wish to visit this week. I think they take care of business.
Someone paid $133,000 to sit courtside at Monday night's NBA Finals game in Oakland between the Golden State Warriors and Cleveland Cavaliers, ESPN reports, citing a source.
James is making his seventh consecutive NBA Finals appearance.
To hear them tell it, they're eyes have been appropriately widened.
LeBron will play great, as he has all series.
"This is our second opportunity to close this thing out and you don't want to keep letting the series prolong", Draymond Green said. He ran the same play with the ball now in his hands, took the trap, faked a pass to Thompson to get Curry to jump out of position, then whipped a pass to Smith for the open three.
Just hours ahead of Game 5, online sportsbook Bovada.com released the opening odds on the 2018 National Basketball Association championship (via OddsShark.com), and there's a clear favorite to win the Larry O'Brien Trophy one year from now.
"It causes too much stress, man", James said after a 137-116 victory in Game 4 to stave off a sweep.
The Cavaliers are different and more imposing beasts, to be sure, but hardly are they unassailable - particularly in Oakland. So hitting and being physical and just everything they do to us in the first three games, we have to do that.
Warriors beat Cavs 129-120 to win NBA title
In last year's championship series the Cavs roared back from a 3-1 deficit to spoil the Warriors' record-setting 73-win season. He chose Curry, Draymond Green , Klay Thompson and a chance at his first championship over returning to Oklahoma City.
Conditions are ripe for the Warriors to summon their inner exterminator. When a team's back is against the wall, they're going to come out and give everything they've got.
"This is who we are", Cavaliers coach Tyronn Lue said in the wake of the Game 4 win.
"I always shoot better than Steph in workouts", he added nonchalantly. We know it's not going to be an easy game for us.
Cleveland burned the Warriors on 24-of-45 shooting from 3-point range on Friday. "That's up to us".
If James loses and his overall finals record moves to 3-5, it's hard to envision anyone except Fox Sports 1 personality Nick Wright arguing James over Jordan.
Two years in a row, James' Cavaliers have fallen into a big hole in the NBA Finals against the Warriors.
But the Warriors are brimming with confidence, knowing they didn't have Kevin Durant to help them previous year.
"We'll just come and play our game, continue to build on what we've been doing since Day 1 of training camp", said Warriors star Kevin Durant, attempting to brush all distractions aside.
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