Maybe you thought the championship was clinched almost a year ago when Kevin Durant made a decision to join the Golden State Warriors as a free agent. As a result, K.D. could not hold back his emotions - most of which could be explained as elation - upon leaving Oakland's Oracle Arena on Monday evening.
If you're among the die-hardest of Golden State Warriors fans, you'll be lining up in the area of Lake Merritt Boulevard and 12th Street in Oakland for the rally celebrating the team's NBA Championship over the Cleveland Cavaliers.
With chants of "M-V-P" quickly forming, it is now obvious that Durant's professional career has finally been solidified, thanks to an National Basketball Association title.
"Kevin's journey, our team embraced him".
"It's different just because of what happened past year to be honest", Curry said. Durant came to the Warriors to be the guy who could allow them to meet and overcome James's unrelenting talent and will.
The Cleveland Cavaliers still have time to become a dynasty and bring more championships to their title-hungry city. We always say, yeah, but they didn't play against each other. "If you want to win, it doesn't matter". Upon joining them, he fit right in, and knew his role immediately. At nearly every moment when it was possible for one man to rise to the challenge of defeating the Warriors on his own, LeBron was there to do it. The Warriors ran 11 on them at the end.
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Owner Joe Lacob will be pulling out his pocketbook to potentially give Curry a $200 million deal. Then they went out and signed Durant, who played and scored for them in these NBA Finals as if he were Michael Jordan. "There was never any question in my mind that this was going to work".
The one and only way to fix that flaw will be for the players around James to evolve from complementary pieces into teammates. The only variable will be the bench, and the Warriors will undoubtedly attract quality players because of the near guarantee that they'll be winning more titles.
Later, the two-time reigning MVP took off his new National Basketball Association champions hat and studied it briefly before pulling it on again, backward.
Durant took heat from critics saying he should have stayed with the Thunder and built a powerhouse team around himself and Russell Westbrook. They learned from each other every step of the way, they pushed one another through fierce shooting competitions that were pure entertainment on a practice floor. "It's tough to get back and get matched, especially with their speed".
"It's kind of insane to think about the conversations we had going into the year about how we both can mesh, and to see it come to life in this series was unbelievable". Magic Johnson thinks the Showtime Lakers would sweep Golden State.
"Like I said, teams and franchises are going to be trying to figure out ways that they can put personnel together, the right group of guys together to be able to hopefully compete against this team".
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