Golden State is closing the regular season on a roll.
All caught up? Good. It's the 20th consecutive season San Antonio has reached the playoffs.
The Las Vegas man took the poster, along with his wife and kids, to a Cavaliers game against the Clippers in Los Angeles last month.
LeBron James: James is the player to watch on whatever team he is on.
George said James' support helped him pull through the months following his injury.
First we examined squads who were entering the postseason on losing streaks of four or more games. That streak is eight seasons longer than any other National Basketball Association franchise ever posted, and also the longest in any North American major pro sport (the Montreal Canadiens and San Francisco 49ers had winning percentages of.600 or better in 16 consecutive seasons). They play great perimeter defence - they had the second-best three-point percentage defence behind only the Warriors - and Avery Bradley zeroes in on Curry as well as or better than any defender in the league. Westbrook has posted five triple-doubles in those games, including two this season. They must do so in order to overcome the meltdown that saw them blow a 3-1 series lead to the Cleveland Cavaliers in the NBA Finals. Once he plays this weekend, the active leaders in most-games-but-no-playoffs become Omri Casspi (499 after this season) and DeMarcus Cousins (487).
"You don't go out and get Kevin Durant and be happy to get to the Conference Finals or the NBA Finals and lose".
I've flip-flopped so many times on that Cavaliers-Raptors second-round series that I have now picked the Cavs in some places and the Raps in others, which probably violates some code of handicapping if not journalism.
Jimmy Butler is the best player in this series and how Boston deals with the threat he poses will be crucial. Were they sandbagging or searching? "Nothing changes for me", James said.
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So I've ranked the playoff teams specific to the threat they pose to the Warriors in a playoff series, not at all just by win-totals but by playing style, personnel and recent history. The Warriors of a year ago returned.
"We've elevated our play", said McMillan. Brad Stevens is the kind of coach who, like Pop, finds the superpower within each role player and maximizes it. But he says this year's Warriors are loaded. Are the Cavs in jeopardy of not getting to the National Basketball Association finals? Matchups, coaching counters, swarming defense, creative ATOs.
They are defending champions in name only. As for the Cavs. He has been a star, has carried every team on which he has ever played, from the time he was in high school. But someone will do it.
A Cleveland win would lock up the #1 seed in the East for LeBron & Company.
It's exceedingly hard to pick against Golden State.
The shorthand theme: Athletic, ball-hawking teams with unpredictable dribble-penetrators, offensive-glass crashers and solid three-point shooters have given the Warriors some extra difficulties in the Steve Kerr era, and there are a few of those kinds of teams out there. Golden State will be too focused to slip up against a Cavs team that's taken a small step backward. This is a team that within a week can loose to the hapless Nets and then win three straight against the Celtics and Cavaliers (twice). IN has a new coach in Nate McMillan and Pacer mainstays George Hill and Roy Hibbert are gone from those teams, but Paul George remains.
THOMPSON: I'm not dismissing the Celtics as much as I am not forgetting that LeBron played for Cleveland. Pressure to win the championship, and a pressure that they haven't faced before: Hatred. And while the Cavaliers are roundly underperforming, you can never count out LeBron. It doesn't get any better than this.
This postseason will mark the end of Paul Pierce's career. But Drake will be left in awe of the Warriors' pristine offense. And for the third year in a row, a Cavs-Warriors NBA Finals is a real possibility.
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