The hoards of Warriors fans outside Oracle Arena Monday night, celebrating after the team brought home the National Basketball Association championship, were dealt a surprise when Kevin Durant stepped out of a auto, hoisted his MVP trophy and cheered alongside with them.
The two teams have contested the past three finals.
When Kevin Durant departed from Oklahoma City to join Golden State last summer, this was precisely why he did it, to win at the highest level, the NBA Finals. "I'm pretty sure we'll be back and we'll be ready to battle again", he said, while sharing glowing remarks about James, who became the first ever player to average a triple-double in the finals (33.6 points, 12.0 rebounds and 10.0 assists).
KD was relentless on both sides of the court, playing a menacing defence and igniting the league's best offence.
This gave Durant the most points in history for a player who averaged at least 50 percent from the field, 40 percent from three and 90 percent from the line, as Penny Hardaway held the previous record of 25.5 points from the 1995 Finals.
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But there's only one time in NBA history has the NBA Finals MVP award gone to a player from the losing squad - Jerry West claimed the award in the 1968-69 season, when his Lakers fell to the Boston Celtics in seven games. I put in work, I just had to trust in it.
He walked away from a city, shoot, an entire state that treasured him, and a franchise committed and close to winning a title, to join an all-star team nearly guaranteed a championship. "I'm not happy at all", James said of Durant.
James won his first championship back in 2012 against, yes, Kevin Durant. "They're assembled as good as you can assemble, and I played against some really, really good teams that was assembled perfectly, and they're right up there". "So you don't know what's going to happen".
"For me personally, I left everything on the floor every game, all five games". "I have no reason to put my head down". "Adding (George) to the mix might be the closest thing we could see to another team challenging (Golden State) next year", Sherman said, before adding that the Warriors would still be the favourites. "But tonight was a little different, just based on the things I've had to go through during this time".
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