Rihanna steals the spotlight from Cavs, Warriors during NBA Finals

But to some, the game was far from the main event. “So we just got to continue to play great team defense”. “There’s nothing really needs to be said”. It’s not scripted, and it happens. And during the epic rubber match, which features some of the best basketball players of this generation, we’ll bear witness to one of the most monumental championship rounds in sports history.

The Warriors and Cavaliers are meeting in their third consecutive Finals, a matchup many predicted when the season began after Golden State signed Durant in a blockbuster move.

“Those are two big household names, so we know you guys and the fans are going to want to see that and pick up on it”, said acting Warriors coach Mike Brown, facing a Cleveland franchise that fired him not once but twice. Hopefully Rihanna keeps the rest of this series interesting. The Cavaliers may get buried in this game fairly early. Golden State earned its 13th consecutive win to open the playoffs, absolutely dominating LeBron James and the Cavaliers by the score of 113-91. “We’ve still got a long way to go to win this series”. Here’s a team that’s now 13-0 and winning by an average of 17-plus points per game. Good thing Rihanna was in the house. Unknown to many, the Warriors are one of the best defensive teams in the league and in Game 1, they turned LeBron into a one-man show by shutting down his teammates.

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The challenge for Golden State going forward will be to maintain the fiery pace they brought to Game 1 against the Cavs, both at home and on the road.

Again, that might be true. Last year Golden State didn’t have Kevin Durant.

Curry’s backcourt partner Klay Thompson was also wary of complacency. The NBA is undergoing this transition in which teams are shooting more threes, but some still aren’t launching enough.

Durant finished with 38 points, eight rebounds and eight assists, didn’t commit a single turnover and spent much of the night guarding James on the defensive end in an impressive return to the Finals stage five years after his only previous trip with Oklahoma City.