Steve Kerr not healthy enough to coach Golden State Warriors on Thursday

Maybe, just maybe, the Warriors are slightly ahead due mainly to the addition of Kevin Durant, the former Thunder with a thunderous amount of baskets in nearly every game that he’s fielded in.

Remember when rest was all the rage?

Lue chuckled when asked if he anxious the Warriors’ star-studded rotation of Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson, Draymond Green and prized free agent Kevin Durant would make it hard to implement defensive schemes geared to stopping one or even two of this opponent’s top scorers. Golden State is the first team to enter the NBA Finals with a ideal 12-0 mark.

In 2015, the Warriors won their first championship in 40 years, needing six games to knock off the Cavaliers, who were without the injured Irving and fellow all-star Kevin Love.

Kerr has not yet ruled himself out for Thursday’s game one against reigning champions the Cavaliers, saying “it’s up in the air”.

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In an interview with Ken Berger of The Athletic, James re-emphasized his desire to one day own an National Basketball Association team.

The Warriors are using Durant in every imaginable way on offence, and James isn’t surprised to see his good friend and Olympic teammate more mobile than he was with the Thunder.

You know what’s even funnier? If he doesn’t do anything in this year’s NBA Finals then how will this impact his worth to the Warriors in seasons to come? And if the Cavs try to employ the same philosophy as last year’s Finals, the numbers say that Oakland may be preparing for another parade around Lake Merritt soon.

Lue is 28-6 in two postseasons with Cleveland. Which would mean that the superpower Warriors – now a flawless 12-0 and untouchable in the playoffs – would have played 19 games in 68 freaking days.

“You add more pressure to it?”

Story line: The Warriors and Cavaliers make NBA history by becoming the first teams to meet in three straight NBA Finals.

Kerr hasn’t coached the Warriors since Games 2 and 3 of the first round of the 2017 NBA Playoffs. “But we have to take care of the basketball, that’s more so what we’re anxious about”.

With Korver on the floor, Cleveland’s Offensive Rating has climbed to 121.5 during the playoffs, the fourth-highest on the team behind Channing Frye, Kevin Love and James, per NBA.com. We’re still getting better. The only time he won a championship as a Finals favourite was with Miami in 2013, when the Heat upended the Spurs for their second straight title. (That ratio also holds true going back to last year’s Finals, Golden State going 3-0 when scoring 103 or more, 0-4 otherwise.) And the last time that the Warriors shot better than 50 per cent and lost was in November – that is, November 2014.

These Finals already feel overhyped and overly picked apart, when all we really want to do is watch the greatest in the sport go at it one final round.