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 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 ... award – an award he no doubt deserved – in losing last season....

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....

Golden State Warriors NBA star Andrew Bogut doubts Ben Simmons will play in Rio

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 05 Jun 2016
OAKLAND. Andrew Bogut expects Ben Simmons to follow in his footsteps and become the NBA's top draft pick next month, but he does not think the youngster will join him on a plane to the Rio Olympics ... Simmons announced he will skip the Olympics to concentrate on preparing for his first NBA season ... Bogut's Warriors are going head-to-head with the Cleveland Cavaliers, featuring Boomer team-mate, Matthew Dellavedova, in the NBA Finals....

OKC Thunder: Examining Sam Presti’s offseason checklist

Edit The Oklahoman 05 Jun 2016
Especially if Durant signs a short-term deal, making a maximization of the roster's talent imperative next season ... Anthony Morrow $3.48 million for next season is unguaranteed ... 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....

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 ... The Cavs cruised through the inferior Eastern Conference all season, the narrative goes, and now their reckoning is upon them ... 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?....

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) ... Iguodala will be a free agent after next season ... 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 ......

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....

Antron Brown tops NHRA New England Nationals qualifying

Edit Richmond Times Dispatch 05 Jun 2016
(AP) — Defending Top Fuel season champion Antron Brown raced to his first No.1 qualifier of the season Saturday in the NHRA New England Nationals ... 1 qualifier of the season....

Warriors coach Steve Kerr battling Cavaliers and his body

Edit Sacramento Bee 05 Jun 2016
In a fit of anger during Thursday’s opener of the NBA Finals between Golden State and ......

Cavaliers coach Tyronn Lue can talk trash with best of them

Edit LA Daily News 05 Jun 2016
When he was promoted to the team’s head coach midway through this season, Rivers was there to offer advice ... Rivers coached Lue for exactly 11 regular-season games, but in that time, he saw something ... “And, after my last season, I called him up,” Lue said. Lue worked for Rivers in Boston and with the Clippers for a season before heading to Cleveland....

White Sox acquire James Shields and cash considerations from San Diego (Chicago White Sox)

Edit Public Technologies 05 Jun 2016
The 6-foot-3, 215-pound Shields has gone 129-104 with a 3.76 ERA (910 ER/2,180.0 IP) and 1,899 strikeouts in 330 career games (329 starts) over 11 major-league seasons with Tampa Bay (2006-12), Kansas City (2013-14) and the Padres (2015-16) ... He has recorded at least 10 victories, 200.0 IP and 160 strikeouts each season during that span. His streak of nine consecutive seasons with at least 200.0 IP is the longest active in the majors....

Rain only delays inevitable: Another Duvall HR

Edit MLB 05 Jun 2016
That he did ... Duvall, who began the season as a platoon player, has a team-leading 16 home runs ... Traded from the Giants to the Reds last July 30 for pitcher Mike Leake, Duvall hit 30 homers in Triple-A last season and five more in the big leagues for the Reds. He also had 30-homer seasons in 2014 (three in the Majors) and 2012 ... Mark Sheldon has covered the Reds for MLB.com since 2006, and previously covered the Twins from 2001-05 ... ....
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