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Klay Thompson and Kevin Love go from Little League to NBA Finals

Edit San Francisco Chronicle 05 Jun 2016
Long before the NBA All-Stars faced each other on their sport’s biggest stage, they shared a Little League team. “Klay always had a quiet confidence about him,” Love said Saturday before his Cavaliers practiced for Game 2 of the NBA Finals....

Jerry West defends LeBron, calls critics 'ridiculous'

Edit The Salt Lake Tribune 05 Jun 2016
• Hall of Famer Jerry West has mounted an impassioned defense of LeBron James, saying those who criticize the Cleveland Cavaliers star’s 2-4 NBA Finals record are “ridiculous.” West spoke Saturday, one day before his Golden State Warriors try to take a 2-0 lead on James’s Cavaliers in Game 2 of the finals rematch. West is an executive board member for the Warriors who has spoken to James in the past about playoff failure ... ....

NBA: Curry, Irving seek shooting form in Finals

Edit The Times of India 05 Jun 2016
Golden State Warriors superstar Stephen Curry and Cleveland Cavaliers playmaker Kyrie Irving will try to shake off poor shooting performances Sunday in game two of the NBA Finals ... Two-time NBA Most Valuable Player Curry, who hit a record 402 3-pointers this season, will often be guarding Irving as he tries to bounce back from one of his worst showings....

Cavaliers must cut down on turnovers in Game 2 of NBA Finals

Edit Toronto Sun 05 Jun 2016
The two-time NBA MVP had more turnovers (five) than made field goals (four), only the second time that has happened all season (the first came when he returned from injury against Houston in the first round of these playoffs) ... James’ teams have won their last nine playoff games when trailing a series 1-0, the longest such streak for a player in NBA post-season history ......

Jerry West suggests LeBron should want to 'strangle' media critics

Edit Yahoo Daily News 05 Jun 2016
Cleveland Cavaliers star LeBron James enters Sunday’s Game 2 of the NBA Finals already down 0-1, with nary an NBA observer giving his Cavs a great chance at overcoming a Warriors team working with home court advantage in the weeks following GSW’s record-setting 73-9 regular season run ... James shouldn’t be allowed the same excuses for his play down the stretch of his final games during the 2009, 2010 and 2011 playoffs....

NBA Finals: Cleveland Cavaliers coach Tyronn Lue backs Matthew Dellavedova

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 05 Jun 2016
OAKLAND. Cleveland Cavaliers coach Tyronn Lue insists Matthew Dellavedova will not be scaling back his aggressive play in the NBA Finals against the Golden State Warriors ... Dellavedova, labelled dirty by some US media commentators during last year's playoffs, said he was trying to foul Iguodala on the arm to prevent a fast break and did not intend to hit him on the genitals ... Run the offence'," Lue, a former NBA point guard, said ... ....

No stranger to adversity, Cavs have more of it in NBA Finals

Edit Deseret News 05 Jun 2016
— LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers know what's being whispered — and sometimes shouted — at the NBA Finals ... No adversity? How about firing a coach who led them to the NBA Finals a year ago and got them off to a 30-11 start to this season? ... Sure, they won their first 10 games of the playoffs....

NBA legend Jerry West defends LeBron James from critics of his losing record in Finals

Edit Ohio 05 Jun 2016
If anyone can relate to James’ 2-4 record in NBA Finals, it is most certainly West, who is now working in the Warriors’ front office as an advisor. West went 1-8 in the Finals and remains the only player in NBA history to win a Finals Most Valuable Player award despite losing the series (1969) — a feat James came close to matching last year ... In the playoffs, the best players are supposed to play better....

Fellow legendary Finals loser: Leave LeBron James alone

Edit New York Post 05 Jun 2016
OAKLAND, Calif. — Stars win games. But stars also get blamed, whether fairly or not, when their teams lose. Just ask Jerry West. The model for the NBA logo, West went to nine Finals with the Lakers and lost eight times. So he knows the devastation of losing ... West was around as the Warriors and Cavaliers practiced for Game 2 of the NBA Finals, set for Sunday at Oracle Arena ... “In the playoffs, the best players are supposed to play better ... ....

OKC Thunder: Examining Sam Presti’s offseason checklist

Edit The Oklahoman 05 Jun 2016
Here's a look at Presti's checklist. ... Bring back Morrow? ... He was in and out of the rotation all year and didn't play much during the playoffs ... Nikola Mirotic, Ricky Rubio, Danilo Galinari and other NBA players have won the award in the past. So there's a high level of confidence that Abrines, a 6-foot-6, 22-year-old shooting guard, has an NBA level skill set ... The NBA Draft is on June 23rd, more than a week before free agency even begins....

NBA Summer League Recruitment Plan (Perth Wildcats Pty Ltd)

Edit Public Technologies 05 Jun 2016
This decision means the Wildcats will attend NBA Summer Leagues in Orland, Utah and Vegas with the intention of finding an import centre to fill the role occupied by Jawai in the 2015/16 season. 2016 club MVP Casey Prather has also informed the club that he is focused on achieving his dream of playing in the NBA, and is unlikely to return....

How NHL’s mad parity quest hurts players’ wallets, ambitious teams

Edit New York Post 05 Jun 2016
The Canadian currency issue is obviously a factor, but so is the absence of major-market teams in the latter rounds of the playoffs ... So the PA is expected to vote to approve the increase and thus prevent the first organic decrease of the cap (not counting the reset following the 2012-13 Owners’ Lockout III) since the system was adopted for 2005-06....

Blues' Steen has successful shoulder surgery

Edit The Miami Herald 05 Jun 2016
He returned for the final six games of the regular season and then the playoffs ... Steen routinely was matched against the opposing team's top line in the playoffs, and he helped limit Chicago's Patrick Kane to one goal, Jonathan Toews to none, and ......
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