NBA Finals

This just in: LeBron James believes in himself and his Cleveland Cavaliers teammates. Shocking, I know. Though most statistical models don’t give the reigning champs even a puncher’s chance of taking down the Golden State Warriors for a second straight year–FiveThirtyEight has Cleveland pegged as a 10 percent hopeful—the four-time MVP feels differently, per ESPN.com’s [...]

Although Steve Kerr has been more active in the Golden State Warriors’ day-to-day proceedings, even traveling with the team to San Antonio for Games 3 and 4 of the Western Conference Finals, he still isn’t sure whether he’ll return to the sidelines during the NBA Finals. Said Kerr to The Undefeated’s Marc J. Spears (via ESPN.com’s [...]

Dallas Mavericks head coach Rick Carlisle either has a really high opinion of Jae Crowder, his former player, or he’s absolutely sold on the Boston Celtics. Okay, it’s both. As Carlisle said after the Mavericks’ Monday night loss to the Celtics, per SB Nation’s Tim Cato: [tweet https://twitter.com/tim_cato/status/831353348590862341?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] These words are flattering when you realize [...]

Update: Draymond Green is still Draymond Green. Asked by NBA.com’s David Aldridge if the Cleveland Cavaliers are the only team he wants to play should the Golden State Warriors make it back to the NBA Finals, Green responded thusly: Me: Bird and Magic used to always wake up every morning and see how the other [...]

Think Andre Iguodala is bitter about LeBron James’ chase-down block on him during Game 7 of the NBA Finals? Think again. Sure, LeBron iced what should have been a wide-open, and perhaps championship-clinching, layup. But Iguodala admitted to ESPN.com’s Chris Haynes that he was a fan of the King’s handy work: “I’m like, ‘Man, that [...]

How long will it take for Draymond Green to get over the Golden State Warriors’ epic NBA Finals letdown? Roughly forever. Speaking with reporters as a member of Team USA basketball, Green indicated that he won’t soon forget about Golden State blowing its 3-1 series lead against the Cleveland Cavaliers, per ESPN.com’s Ohm Youngmisuk: “That [...]

The world was watching last night as the Warriors chased history and the Cavaliers and LeBron James chased a dream years in the making in the winner take all Game 7 of the 2016 NBA Finals. The most exciting event in sports. According to overnight data, 30.8 million viewers watched Game 7, making it the [...]

They say that the postseason is a completely different world than the regular season and no team learned that lesson more than the 2015-16 Golden State Warriors. A team that went an incredible, record-breaking 73-9 in the 2015-16 regular season finished 15-9 in the 2016 NBA Playoffs and were one minute away from a history [...]

Hopefully Steve Kerr has his checkbook handy. His comments following the Golden State Warriors’ 115-101 loss to the Cleveland Cavaliers in Game 6 of the NBA Finals are going to cost him. Kerr was not shy about criticizing the referees for how they officiated Stephen Curry. The two-time MVP fouled out with the game already [...]

Stephen Curry is not a immune to pressure. You can forgive yourself if you thought otherwise. Even as he’s struggled during these NBA playoffs, seldom piecing together entire games of trademark Stephen Curry basketball, he has always seemed to come up big when it matters most. The end of Game 6 of the Western Conference [...]