James surpasses Jordan as all-time playoff scoring leader

And they were going up against the best player on the planet. They may be defending champions and they may have LeBron James, but against Golden State, they are definite underdogs. I never thought that you could get to a point where Mike was. “We’re trying to repeat, which is so hard to do”. “We needed to face this challenge and I think we did just that because we knew we couldn’t let them win regardless of what happens”. We’ve played that way, and maybe people don’t appreciate it because of a blowout or because of a sweep.

“For my name to come up in the discussion with the greatest basketball player of all time, it’s like, ‘Wow, ‘ ” James said. I try not to look too far ahead towards the future because everybody talks about the future and how much potential we have and how much potential I have. “But I’d say anybody up front. I couldn’t have made everybody (else) in the West better”.

Love complimented Green’s competitiveness and aimed a verbal volley at Northern California.

There’s a saying that sounds like an ancient bit of received wisdom but probably originates with the justly maligned Tom Cruise vehicle Cocktail that goes “everything ends badly, otherwise it wouldn’t end”. “You saw that in Game 3 against Boston“.

John McGraw’s Giants won the rematch the following year 4-0 with one tie before Ruth gave the Yankees their first title the following year to cap the first season at Yankee Stadium.

Jaylen Brown acquitted himself well in the Celtics’ run to the Eastern Conference finals, but losing to LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers in five games still hurts the rookie forward.

The Cleveland Cavaliers and Golden State Warriors meet Thursday in game one of the 2017 NBA Finals at the Oracle Arena on ABC. James wept on the Warriors home court in Oakland, where he was named unanimous NBA Finals MVP. “They’ve been right at the top, best team in the league for three years straight now”. It took a few years for the basketball academies to build us capable shooting ball handlers, so now nearly every team has a scoring point-guard and the league mostly revolves around them, or the point-forwards, another positions hybrid that came as a product of that change. Just six other players have made it to at least that many in a row, and they all were part of the Celtics’ dynasty, which spanned the 1950s into the 1960s.

However, most reasonable fans realized, even before the series began, that it would take a series of miracles and/or unfortunate injuries to the other guys for this particular Celtics team to somehow beat the Cavaliers and make it to the championship round. “Now we can start focusing on Golden State to get ready”. The Cleveland Cavaliers are shooting 43.5 percent from beyond the arc and 77.4 percent from the free throw line. Durant is new to the rivalry, but he brings so much more to the table than Harrison Barnes ever did.

“He’s moving around a lot more”, he said.

“Same thing was true with the Bowie-Olajuwon-Jordan draft, and that was years before that”, said former NBA Commissioner David Stern, recalling more of Portland’s painful past, when the Blazers took oft-injured center Sam Bowie at No. 2 in between Hall of Famers Hakeem Olajuwon and Michael Jordan in 1984. Though he moved on from accepting conference titles as validation a long time ago, the older he gets, the more he has learned to appreciate the moment. “And he’s always going to make sure he holds us accountable because of that”. That’s enough motivation alone.

If last season’s 4-3 Finals win for the Cavs was any indicator of how this rivalry will continue-count me in. “So, that’s what we’re focused on”. It wasn’t until Pacquiao aged and lost a step that Mayweather finally came to terms with the long-overdue bout.