After Golden State's championship run in his rookie season as a coach in 2015, Kerr missed the first 43 games of the 2016 season as current Los Angeles Lakers' coach Luke Walton stepped in for the Warriors' ailing leader.
Durant won his first championship in as emphatic a fashion as anyone could have imagined, finishing with 39 points, seven rebounds and five assists while fighting LeBron James (41 points, 13 rebounds, eight assists) on the defensive end.
As for Durant, he was awarded the Finals MVP, a year after leaving Oklahoma City to join an already flush Warriors squad. I'm just excited to do something special. "I would hope we're more ready, more prepared tonight". Cleveland last season became the first team ever to overturn a 3-1 deficit in the best-of-seven finals but after falling 3-0 down this time around, they were only able to pull one game back before the Warriors finished the job. With the Warriors facing a golden opportunity to erase the 3-1 ghosts that had haunted them for the past year, Durant carved up the Cavaliers with a lethal dose of outside shooting, tenacious defense and unquestioned efficiency to vanquish his chief rival. Kevin Durant scored 39 on Monday en route to his first National Basketball Association title.
The playoff run through the East - a notable 26-point comeback on their own against IN in the first round, a brilliant closeout game by Irving IN Toronto to end the second round, James and Irving taking turns dominating Boston IN the conference finals - erased most of those regular-season questions.
"When I say something, I've thought about what I'm going to say before I say it".
It also created lofty expectations for Durant, with many onlookers saying his move would be a failure if the Warriors did not go on to win a title in their first season together. Rookie Patrick McCaw had a couple of deft scoring plays (and an all-time wtf foul when Kyrie Irving tripped on his own get at me). After scoring 49 points in the first quarter of Game 4, the Cavs are out to a 22-18 lead midway through the first quarter Monday night.
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The Warriors won in 2015 before the Cavs made their historic comeback previous year. My first time being in this position as a head coach and you get the guys here and you play The Finals and you're starting to play better and play well, and then you look up and the season's over.
Draymond Green stayed on the court in a game that featured three technicals on one play 3:08 before halftime. Thompson and West went at each other face to face.
"I just wanted to lay it all out there". But those guys have been in the trenches and we fought all three years since I've been here. Thompson and Smith confronted West and all three of those players got technical fouls. He had 10 points, 12 rebounds and five assists in the clincher. Cleveland's subs have scored just two points.
James took an outlet pass from Deron Williams and completed the fast break at 10:14 of the second quarter and the Cavs appeared to be in a comfortable position, up eight, 41-33, as thoughts of past year and collapse filtered through the joint.
"If we don't win a championship, then the season was unsuccessful", Richard Jefferson had said at shootaround before the Cavs staved off a sweep in Game 4 in Cleveland.
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