A week ago today, marks history for the Cleveland Cavilers. Not only are they the first sports team in Cleveland history to win a championship title in 52 years but they are the first NBA team to come back from a 3-1 deficit. Many thought the Cavs in were over their heads, to go up against the 3-point team; The Golden State Warriors.
As this has been exciting finals for both teams. A recap of the finals; Golden State won the first two games of the series, winning in their home arena. Then the series headed to Cleveland to win by a 30 point lead. Which made the series a 2-1 lead. Game four in Cleveland upset most Caviler fans. The Warriors won that game by 103 points. The Warriors feeling confident that they were going to take game five at home, ran into a bit of a challenge. The Cavilers came ready to play with both Kyrie Irving and LeBron James scoring 40 points, the team played well defensively and offensively. Heading all the way to game seven making it any teams championship, the Cavs settled the negative talk and won game seven. The final score of the game being 93-89, winning on Golden State's turf. Once the Cavilers knew they won they finals, LeBron James became overwhelmed with emotions. Simply stating, "Cleveland this is for you."
The starters for the Cavilers are: LeBron James(Small Forward), Kyrie Irving(Point Guard), J.R. Smith(Shooting Guard), Tristian Thompson(Center) and Kevin Love(Power Forward). The starters for the Warriors are: Stephen Curry(Power Guard), Klay Thompson(Shooting Guard), Draymond Green(Power Forward), Andre Iguodala(Small Forward), and Andrew Bogut(Center). Both teams having amazing starters, many felt that the Warriors would win this series.
Golden State having an amazing regular season of 73 wins and 9 loses beating the 95-96 Chicago Bulls record. Stephen Curry in the regular season shooting 402, 3-point shots out of 886. That totaled out to be 1593 points. In the finals shots that Curry can usually make without any effort; seemed impossible to do going up against Irving and Smith playing tough defense. In the end, the Warriors couldn't make that record count losing game seven of the NBA finals.
Many NBA professionals and fans believe that this is the start of a rivalry for the Cavs and the Warriors. This year being that The Cavilers and Warriors were in the finals for the second year. Bringing back that old feeling of the NBA. To name a few here are teams that have had some bitter blood between them; Lakers v. Celtics, Bulls v. Knicks, Bulls v. Phoenix. This won't be last time the Cavilers and Warriors go head to head for a championship.
