The Golden State Warriors regained the National Basketball Association title from the Cleveland Cavaliers as a 129-120 win on Monday night sealed the finals series 4-1.
Cleveland last season became the first team ever to overturn a 3-1 deficit in the best-of-seven finals but after falling 3-0 down this time around, they were only able to pull one game back before the Warriors finished the job.
LeBron James, whose Cavaliers won the title past year and fell to the Warriors on Monday, said during a visit to Obama's White House in November that his team would "have to cross that road" if it triumphed again under Trump.
It validated the notion of Warriors general manager Bob Myers, who risked what he had built counting on Durant to be the final piece in building a juggernaut.
Golden State Warriors' Kevin Durant puts on his championship T-shirt after Game 5 of the 2017 NBA Finals at Oracle Arena in Oakland.
You couldn't help but wonder what Kevin Durant was thinking last night as the clock ticked down to the NBA Championship.
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Golden State Warriors' Draymond Green and Kevin Durant go for a high-five in the second quarter. But now, it appears that Danny Ainge and the C's will need to find a way to beat him and the rest of the Warriors in the NBA Finals. Curry, who had to take a backseat to accommodate Durant as the team's new alpha dog, praised his new teammate for embracing the Finals stage.
While well wishes and praise for Durant were surely coming in fast after Game 5, KD received one correspondence that stood out from the rest - a text of congratulations from former President Barack Obama. Fans and critics on Twitter are going off about the news, which came shortly after the team won its second championship in three years.
"Today is all about celebrating our championship", the team said in a statement to the Guardian. "And I know he wants to be here and we want him here". So, sorry I went on a little rant, but that's how I feel about the team.
For James, already a three-times champion, the loss puts him in rare company as only the fourth player to come up short in five NBA Finals.
"We'll handle that accordingly and responsibly, and do the right thing for us individually and as a group".
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