Golden State Warriors secured the title by winning Game 5 129-120 at Oracle Arena to take the series 4-1, the team's second in three years.
Not long after the Golden State Warriors won the NBA Finals, a report surfaced alleging that the Warriors had unanimously chose to skip the traditional celebratory visit to the White House.
(AP Photo/Ben Margot). Golden State Warriors guard Klay Thompson smiles while speaking at a news conference after Game 5 of basketball's NBA Finals between the Warriors and the Cleveland Cavaliers in Oakland, Calif., Monday, June 12, 2017.
"We're going down as one of the best teams ever and that's a special thing you can not take away from us", Warriors reserve Andre Iguodala said. "It was fantastic to just see that all year, and right now just to be here with these guys, it's incredible".
Durant also becomes the first player since Shaquille O'Neal back in 2000 to tally five consecutive 30-point games in an NBA Finals series.
Steph Curry had revealed he intends to skip a potential visit to The White House, after the Golden State Warriors NBA Finals win.
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"I knew it was going to be a battle I just tried to challenge him - you can't stop the guy".
While the Cleveland Cavaliers lost the 2017 NBA Finals, the last three years have been some of the most rewarding and satisfying for their fans.
"Love you, girl, but I got to do it", Durant told USA TODAY Sports as he clutched the MVP trophy.
"I couldn't sleep for two days", Durant, who was named the Finals MVP, said during an on-court interview.
Several members of the reigning National Football League champion New England Patriots opted to skip the team's post-Super Bowl White House visit last April for various reasons. "It was just ridiculous", Curry said. The team's coach, Steve Kerr, slammed the president's travel ban executive order in January as a "horrible idea", and forward David West called Trump's election "disheartening". "And I know he wants to be here and we want him here. And at the end of the day, no matter what anybody says from now on, they can never take away from you being a champion".
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