Cavaliers Aim To Closeout Series In Boston

He has scored 30 or more points in 11 of the Cavaliers 13 games this postseason. The previous franchise record for points in a playoff game is 130, which was set against Boston in Game 2 of this series. Despite going 1-for-9 in Game 4, Smart was coming off a 27-point performance in Game 3.

Golden State’s Kevin Durant opened as the favorite to be named NBA Finals MVP on Wednesday at William Hill, the first Nevada sportsbook to offer odds on the Finals MVP.

“The comparison is always going to be there, they’re always going to continue to talk about it, but just showing that you’re able to pass Michael Jordan, on this kind of stage and in a playoff magnitude, just means LeBron’s been doing a lot of winning”, Lue said.

“I think what it has to do with, it has to do with the fact he’s got a nice, long, fat contract with the Cavs and he realizes that he can finally afford to pay me the money that he owes me for the shooting game back in 2000 or whenever it was”, Brown said with a grin.

To be sure, “Air Jordan” still reigns over “King James“. The Cavs have lost one game so far and it largely happened because LeBron James had one of the worst games of his playoff career.

James referred to the Warriors as only “that juggernaut” and “a beast” following Thursday’s Game 5 in at Boston, a night in which he passed Michael Jordan as the career postseason scoring leader.

Of the 30 National Basketball Association teams that compete during the regular season, 16 teams, eight in the Eastern Conference and eight in the Western Conference, participate in the post-season playoffs leading up to the Finals.

It was Green who was suspended for Game 5 of last year’s Finals for a swipe at James’ groin — and Golden State wound up squandering a 3-1 series lead and chance at a repeat title. Kevin Love had 15 points and 11 rebounds before joining the rest of the Cavaliers starters on the bench for the fourth quarter – a familiar scene in the series. Twenty-one total days between series for each team has worn even the most tortured narratives thin, and the only way the league can make it up to them is to provide a seventh game.

“This is the honest truth, and I’m probably going to get in trouble for this, I don’t think there’s anything you can do to try and compare a team to our team because we have LeBron and Kyrie”, said Cavs veteran forward Channing Frye. A similar incident occurred moments later when Tristan Thompson attempted to help up Amir Johnson while the Cavaliers were running in transition, and was pushed away once again. “And they’re a different team when IT is”.”He knows that”.

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Jordan probably was a better pure scorer than James. LeBron James and company were unbeaten through 10 games before losing to the Celtics on a last-second 3-pointer in Sunday’s Game 3.

Everybody spent so much attention on how the Celtics would adjust on offense without Isaiah Thomas in their lineup, that nobody considered that the Cavaliers would also have to adjust to defending the Celtics without Thomas.

The Boston Celtics have won the most league titles, at 17.

The Wine and Gold have been victorious through the East, with a record of 12 – 1.

When asked about his thoughts facing the Golden State Warriors in the finals, Irving said, “I can’t wait”.