The Golden State juggernaut rolled over Cleveland four games to one in the best-of-seven championship series, which ended with a 129-120 Warriors home triumph on Monday (Tuesday in Manila) that brought NBA Finals MVP Kevin Durant his first championship.
The Warriors won a record 73 games in 2015-16.
Oakland and the Bay Area celebrated the championship with backyard firework displays and impromptu street parties around the region.
Golden State fought off a charge from defending champions the Cavaliers on Monday to earn their second National Basketball Association championship in three seasons with a 129-120 game-five victory.
"Every, single day, (he's) demanding more out of himself, demanding more out of us, the true testament of a consummate professional", Irving said.
Did James deserve to win the award - named for Celtics star Bill Russell by National Basketball Association commissioner David Stern in 2009 - this year?
Durant came back late in the regular season from a 19-game absence with a left knee injury, then dealt with a tender calf early in the playoffs. Against Golden State, he met an army of players constructed just to stop him, and LeBron still put in a superhuman effort the likes of which we've literally never seen before.
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The Standard & Poor's 500 index, the benchmark that professional investors follow, likewise wasn't changed much either. This marks the third increase this fiscal year, with previous hikes in December 2016 and again in March of this year.
"Pretty much all their big-name guys are in their 20s, and they don't show any signs of slowing down". There it was, too, at the end on Monday in Game 5, when he played like a kid who didn't want the game to end, who played like a kid running out of daylight, and kept going to the basket again and again and trying to keep his season alive. "From my eyes, they're built to last a few years". He has had a great run with the Los Angeles Clippers, but that team's window - whether they want to accept it or not - has closed.
If you are the best player, you are charged with making everyone else on the team better and James does not do that or needs better teammates. Beating the Cavs by a combined 50 points in three games at Oracle Arena, the Warriors were dominant despite one of the best individual performances in playoff history.
This is obviously all speculation, but there's one accomplishment others can't take away from the Warriors.
Police say between 400 to 500 spectators and vehicles participated in "sideshow" activity in East Oakland on Monday night. Sure, the fan in me would love to see more competition.
"We don't even have to speak about it", Iguodala said.
Fans will. Until they are sick of it, and the Warriors become the new-age Goliath.
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