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NBA: Five keys to the NBA Finals

Edit The Times of India 01 Jun 2016
Five keys to the best-of-seven NBA Finals between the Cleveland Cavaliers and Golden State Warriors that begin Thursday. ... Four-time NBA Most Valuable Player LeBron James for Cleveland and two-time reigning NBA MVP Stephen Curry for Golden State bring emotional and physical strengths as the sport's top stars ... Klay Thompson made an NBA playoff one-game record 11 3-pointers to help deny Oklahoma City an NBA Finals trip....

NBA: Healthy help could bring LeBron win in Finals rematch

Edit The Times of India 01 Jun 2016
LeBron James, in his sixth consecutive NBA Finals, leads the Cleveland Cavaliers in a rematch with defending champion Golden State starting Thursday, but this time the superstar has a healthy supporting cast. Two-time NBA Most Valuable Player Stephen Curry sparks the Warriors' quest for a title repeat against four-time MVP "King" James, who is trying to bring Cleveland a major sports crown for the first time since the 1964 NFL Browns....

TNT's NBA playoff coverage tops 'Roots' with record ratings

Edit The Miami Herald 01 Jun 2016
Nielsen data shows that an average of 15.9 million viewers watched TNT's Monday telecast of the Western Conference NBA playoff final with the Golden State Warriors' 96-88 victory over the Thunder, giving Curry's team a 4-3 win of the series. TNT's playoff game, which aired in prime-time in the Eastern and Central time zones, was the most watched NBA telecast ever carried on a cable network....

Thunder roster is loaded; now it's up to Durant and Westbrook

Edit The Oklahoman 01 Jun 2016
This roster is good enough to win the NBA championship, and the Thunder just proved it, even in defeat to the mighty Warriors in a seven-game Western Conference finals that renewed faith in the NBA playoffs ... Ten playoff series victories in the last six seasons ... Their collective meltdown in the final five minutes of Game 6 on Saturday night is what kept OKC out of the NBA Finals ... Better than its drive to the 2012 NBA Finals....

Capsule preview of the NBA Finals: Warriors vs Cavaliers

Edit Boston Herald 01 Jun 2016
A look at the NBA Finals matchup between the Golden State Warriors and Cleveland Cavaliers (with regular-season and playoff records). ... A rematch of last year's NBA Finals, which the Warriors won in six games for their first championship in 40 years. They followed that with a record 73 victories during the regular season and will try to cap off the winningest season in NBA history....

Warriors reflect on arduous path to NBA Finals

Edit San Francisco Chronicle 01 Jun 2016
Warriors reflect on arduous path to NBA Finals On Tuesday, they were given the day off - a short respite to rehab their bodies, re-energize their souls and reflect on the unbelievable journey they endured to earn a return trip to the NBA Finals. “This whole playoff run has been a rollercoaster ride, for me specifically, but ......

Prominent playoff performers headed toward free agency

Edit Milwaukee Journal Sentinel 01 Jun 2016
Many free agents this year will be looking for a major payday this offseason. The group possibly headed to free agency in July includes some prominent names from this year's NBA playoffs and here are some factors they could consider in making their decisions ... ....

Paul George Appears To Be The NBA 2K17 Standard Edition Cover Athlete

Edit Forbes 01 Jun 2016
Indiana Pacers' Paul George (13) shoots during the second half of Game 6 of an NBA first-round playoff basketball series against the Toronto Raptors, Friday, April 29, 2016, in Indianapolis. Indiana won 101-83. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings) It looks like Indiana Pacers star Paul George will be named the cover athlete for [...] ... ....

Who has the edge?

Edit Tampa Bay Times 01 Jun 2016
A position-by-position look at the NBA Finals matchups between the Golden State Warriors (73-9 season, 12-5 playoffs) and Cleveland Cavaliers (57-25, 12-2) ... ....

This Game 7 completed an epic comeback

Edit Tampa Bay Times 01 Jun 2016
The Golden State Warriors entered the NBA playoffs having spent months chasing basketball magic. As they overwhelmed a conga line of opponents, the Warriors went about the uncharitable business of obliterating records, each new number more impressive than the last ... ....

LeBron James’ NBA Finals excuse is gone

Edit New York Post 01 Jun 2016
“I don’t know any other team that’s gotten to the Finals without two All-Stars,” James said after the injured Cavaliers fell in six games to the eventual NBA champ Warriors ... The Cavs entered those Finals against the Warriors without power forward Kevin Love, an early playoff casualty ... But they’re back to haunt the Warriors in the NBA Finals starting Thursday at Oracle Arena....

Position-by-position matchups for the NBA Finals

Edit Boston Herald 01 Jun 2016
A position-by-position look at the matchups in the NBA Finals between the Golden State Warriors and Cleveland Cavaliers. ... Love is making his NBA Finals debut and will have to shoot better than he did against the Warriors in the regular season, when he made 28.6 percent from the floor ... In his sixth straight NBA Finals, it will be hard for James to ......

OKC Thunder journal: Thunder-Warriors highest rated NBA cable telecast of all-time

Edit The Oklahoman 01 Jun 2016
household rating, cable television's most-viewed NBA telecast of all time and TNT's most-watched program in the network's 28-year history ... OKC was done in by the 3-point shooting of perhaps the NBA's greatest 3-point shooting team ever and a team that with an NBA Finals victory over Cleveland can stake claim to being the greatest NBA team ever....
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