Cavs’ best effort not good enough to beat the Warriors

James has defied the odds before, perhaps most impressively past year against Golden State when his Cavaliers were the first team to win a title after trailing the Finals 3-1.

Golden State can make history as the first team to sweep the playoffs if they win Game 4 on Saturday, Manila time.

An 11-0 run by the Warriors in the last 3:09 helped them steal the first game in Cleveland, 118-113, and take a controlling 3-0 lead in the Finals. On the other hand, once again, an inspired Kevin Durant emerged as the Warriors’ hero thanks to an impressive three-pointer over LeBron James that gave them the final lead. “I think he’s having the time of his life out there”. Kevin Durant would hit a 3-pointer with under a minute to go to go up by 1 shocking everyone in Cleveland. Point guard Steph Curry scored 26 points and led the team in rebounding with 13. In the postseason, Golden State has outscored its opponents by 227 points when Green has been on the court, giving him the second-best plus/minus on the team, behind Stephen Curry (plus 267).

The top-seeded and undefeated Warriors, who can close out a flawless postseason run on Friday, boast a slew of weapons, most notably two-time reigning league MVP Stephen Curry and four-times scoring champion Kevin Durant.

The Oracle Arena will again be the venue for game 4 of the National Basketball Association finals on Friday.

As this best-of-seven series moves to Game 4, scheduled for tomorrow night in Cleveland, the only question left seems to be whether the Warriors can become the first team in N.B.A. history to finish the playoffs with a 16-0 record. The Cavs played an nearly ideal game and they still came up short, and that’s hard for Cavs fans to admit, but it’s true. He added that after they had won the Eastern Conference title they were going to face a huge task in the NBA Finals. “So even when you’re playing well, you’ve got to play like A-plus-plus”. -LeBron on the last three 3 minutes of Game 3.

“I gave everything that I had, so at times throughout the game I was exhausted, but that’s just because I was just playing as hard as I could”, James said. “We’ve got one more to go”.

James had 39 points, 11 rebounds and nine assists, but his attempt at a tying 3-pointer was blocked by Andre Iguodala and James stepped out of bounds after recovering it, slamming the ball to the court in frustration.

Kerr knew what James knew before this series began when he wanted to bring in more fire power: that Kyrie and Bron-Bron can’t do it all. “He’s been an awesome player in this league for a long time, and I think he senses this is his time, his moment”.