The win is the Warriors second title in three years while on the other side, James goes to three wins and five losses in the NBA Finals.
He'll get a championship ring after he scored 39 points - 11 of them in the fourth quarter, in the Warriors' 129-120 victory over the Cavaliers. But a 21-2 run by the Warriors in the second quarter ignited a 38-point period and Golden State held a double digit lead at halftime. He punctuated that season with his famed "Baby Hook" to win Game 4 of the NBA Finals in Boston, giving the Lakers a 3-1 lead before they finished off their rivals two games later.
Clutch shooting from outside the perimeter as well as sharp offensive rebounds were the Warriors strongholds on a night that the Cavs gained just seven points from their bench.
During the trophy ceremony, Kerr said, "I want to say a special thank you to Mike Brown and my whole coaching staff".
James had a spectacular series, averaging 33.6 points, 12 rebounds, and 10 assists but it wasn't enough.
But he said: "It's a team sport".
"They can never take away you being a champion. To play with these guys is incredible".
Iguodala, the 2015 Finals MVP, came up big again with his 2017 postseason-best 20 points off the bench in a testy, tightly called finale to this trilogy Finals that everyone had stamped on the calendar from the moment Durant departed Oklahoma City to join Curry and Co. last July. The decision to move Draymond Green into the starting lineup in place of David Lee and moving Andre Iguodala into a sixth-man role sparked the Warriors to a 67-win season.
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"I broke down so I couldn't really finish my speech", he said. "But I'm going to celebrate this one for now". I hope we're a little more nervous.
"I just try to do everything to help this team win and more", James said. And you got to give credit when credit is due.
"We came up against a worthy opponent, we weren't able to get over the hump and get it done but there's no such thing as a failed season when you work as hard as we did". There were talks of a lack of parity, whether a super team in Golden State would render the rest of the league meaningless for the foreseeable future, but zoom out and take a long view of this Warriors franchise, and it's been one of the most dramatic three-year runs in league history.
While James was disappointed in losing the Finals, he knows the feeling Durant has in getting his first title.
Even in defeat, LeBron James became the first player in history to average a triple-double in the finals - 33.6 points, 12 rebounds and 10 assists per game.
What made them great: With Cousy controlling a powerful offense and Russell patrolling the paint for the league's leading defense, the Celtics outscored teams by more than nine points per game while going 23-5 and 11-3 on neutral courts - yes, National Basketball Association teams played neutral-site games back then.
Tristan Thompson's 15 points for Cleveland in game five surpassed his tally in the the first four games combined (13).
But the visitors started brightly, jumping out to a nine-point lead toward the end of the first quarter.
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