LeBron James tops Michael Jordan as all-time playoffs scoring leader

“They just stayed resilient all year, got to the playoffs, and we really stepped our game up”, he said.

Click through the gallery below to see the sneakers that got Cleveland back to the NBA Finals. Will the Warriors be haunted by letting last season’s 3-1 lead slip away?

The Cleveland Cavaliers could well be on their way to the third NA final in 3 years and they have Kyrie Irving to thank for this. Golden State will practice again Saturday then take Sunday as its last off day ahead of Thursday’s Game 1 at Oracle Arena.

Each wants, but only one can. Heck, they even managed to steal a game from Cleveland, on the road no less, something which none of their other opponents managed to do.

There’s notably also another superstar on Golden State’s already-loaded roster.

LeBron James in the Nike LeBron 14. There was nearly too much historical context to dissect, and so James did what his instincts told him to do.

James will make his seventh straight trip to the Finals. Thursday was about James inching closer to Jordan, not the Finals matchup looming out West. And yet the player most likely to loom large – or not – for the Warriors is Klay Thompson.

Warriors owner Joe Lacob said publicly he wanted another chance at the Cavs because of unfinished business from 2016.

“Want the Warriors? Like Bron said in his postgame presser, they’ve been right at the top, best team in the league for three years straight now”.

According to oddsmakers at BetDSI, the Warriors are the slight favorite to claim the series, as they have odds of -240 to win. In Game 2, he scored 53 points – one shy of John Havlicek’s franchise record.

Cavs forward LeBron James led the team with 35 points, surpassing Michael Jordan as the NBA’s all-time leading scorer in the playoffs. He’s still a few thousand behind Jordan’s regular-season point total, too. Their postseason effective field goal percentage of 59.8 percent is the highest in National Basketball Association history.

Meanwhile, J.R. Smith and Kyle Korver all helped spread out Boston’s defenders by connecting on several wide-open scoring opportunities.

Irving was moving around and putting up shots during the Cavs’ morning shootaround. Golden State won the first series in 2015 in six games.

“Playing in this league, you can’t take anything for granted”, Warriors guard Stephen Curry said after the Warriors beat the San Antonio Spurs 129-115 in Game 4 on Monday night. The Cleveland Cavaliers are shooting 43.5 percent from beyond the arc and 77.4 percent from the free throw line.

Avery Bradley scored 23 points for the Celtics. Thompson had the best plus-minus (plus-40) in the series. Should they lose four games to one to the Cavaliers, or some other Eastern Conference team next season, it’s not going to play as a feel-good story.

“I wear the number [23] because of Mike, I think I fell in love with the game because of Mike – just seeing what he was able to accomplish”, James told a media conference. If they’re going to struggle with transition D now, that will be a problem. How will Golden State guard Kyrie Irving?