Golden State Warriors Get The Best Of The NBA’s First Finals Trilogy

The clock was winding down, the celebration cranking up, the Golden State Warriors putting the finishing touch on another National Basketball Association championship Monday night.

In the Finals loss to Golden State – a 129-120 victory in Game 5 secured the championship for the Warriors – James became the first player to average a triple double in the finals, posting 33.6 points, 12 rebounds and 10 assists per game.

There will be people this offseason that try to claim that LeBron didn’t do enough for his team, that now that he’s 3-5 for his career in The Finals, and that he will never be as great as Jordan. He scored 30 or more points in all five Finals games. All 11 media members voting on the award had Durant as the victor.

But there’s this fact: He became the first player in National Basketball Association history to average a triple-double (33.6 points, 12 rebounds, 10 assists, and let’s not forget a block and 1.4 steals per contest and 56.4 percent from the floor) in the Finals. By the time they held off a suddenly risky Cleveland in Game 5, the focus had turned to the present: Golden State winning the title.

He missed a total of six shots in the clinching game of the 20 he took in the game. You can talk about whatever happens on the outside, but inside those lines, I come to bring it every day. Prior to the Game 1 tipoff, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said the league has “done lots of experiments” with social media to show fans another side of the game – and plans to do even more.

Durant was in tears as he did that interview with his mother Wanda just steps away beaming with the kind of pride only a mother can understand.

More good news for Steph Curry: He ably demonstrated this series that those people are, to put it charitably, delusional. A combination of head and body blows possibly dismantling this team from the current form we know. Curry had 34 in the clincher.

“Golden State (was) the best team this year”, James said.

In case you haven’t noticed, the Golden State Warriors are again the world champions. You tell me that a guy has averaged 10, 8 and 7, and I’m thinking of Jason Kidd at age 100, not an athletic and ferocious 27-year-old.

Perhaps no one is more appreciative of James than his dynamic point guard, Kyrie Irving.

So while James’ Finals record has dropped to 3-5, it’s just about impossible to hold this one against him. Durant was so spectacular that it’s easy to overlook the fact that Curry almost matched LeBron’s stunning accomplishment of averaging a triple-double for the series, putting up 27-8-9 and closing out the Cavs with 34 points on 20 shots. “Adding (George) to the mix might be the closest thing we could see to another team challenging (Golden State) next year”, Sherman said, before adding that the Warriors would still be the favourites.

Of course, injuries and unforeseen circumstances could derail Golden State’s run, but otherwise, get used to watching this generation’s version of the Bulls, Celtics and Lakers.

Perhaps the biggest surprise of the half was the fact that Kevin Love did not score at all. Once the game got under three minutes, she was certain it was in hand.

Kyrie Irving added 26 points and J.R. Smith 25 in a losing cause. From a three-man wrecking crew to a two-man wrecking crew when one of the two men was new and two of the three men weren’t on it any more, the Warriors rearranged their very DNA.