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| The Cavs return home, looking like champions should! |
“CLEVELANNNDDDD, THIS IS FOR
YOUUUUUU,” yells LeBron James as the emotion of accomplishing his main goal for
returning to his home team hit him. A big sigh of relief was let out as the horn
sounded in Oracle Arena. James had a vision in which he put his time and
efforts into bringing it to reality. He knew he had to be patient but as an
impatient person he had to deal with the shortcomings before the success. one of these mishaps came a year earlier against the ex-world champions the Golden State
Warriors. Too bad Golden States success didn’t come at the right time.
Speaking of the Warriors,
Steph Curry is the unanimous MVP, they started the season 24-0 with an Assistant Coach at the
helm and became the first team to win 73 games in the history of the NBA.
This speaks of nothing but greatness. That success doesn’t feel to good after
the horrible 4th quarter performance by the best shooting backcourt.
The Splash Brothers went 12
for 36 from the field. Draymond Green who was one assist away from a triple
double was left out to dry. To me the season doesn’t have the same magnitude as
if they won championship. The unanimous MVP didn’t come to play this series; we
need to start questioning his place as a top point guard in the league.
On the opposite end of the spectrum, Kyrie Irving (to me) has put himself in the conversation for the best point guard spot. He dominated Curry for almost the entire series. Averaging 27.1 points per game, he consistently made the shots that Cleveland needed to stay ahead or to keep it competitive. The journey for him has been overshadowed by the drought that has been broken. Just one year ago he watched his team fight hard but lose in game 6 from his hospital bed.
To fight through injury and
the media discussing your game, was all worth the game winning three. Irving
knows he has to bring it for some time to come. As he approach Curry after the
game he says “I will be seeing a lot of you over the next couple of years.” As
great as Kyrie was, the MVP was awarded to the mastermind, team leader,
businessman, The King; LeBron James.
“What More Can I Sayyyyyyy,”
in the honor of the great Jay-Z. On the real, its nothing we can say as
admirers, onlookers, and analyzers of the game of Basketball when it comes to LeBron.
He had a blueprint, he was abele to draw up after being in Miami for
4 years. He absorbed what it took to become a champion. He would use this scheme to bring a championship to a city that hasn’t seen one since 1964.
King James thoughts:
“Throughout my 13-year
career, I've done nothing but be true to the game, give everything I've got to
the game, put my heart, my blood, sweat, tears into the game, and people still
want to doubt what I'm capable of doing,” James said. “So that was a little icing
on the cake for myself to just let me know that everything I've done, it
results in this. They say hard work pays off, and that's what happened tonight.”
Back to back 41 point games, double
doubles in both games. Triple double in game 7. This might have been the
greatness performance seen in a NBA Finals series. The play to sum up the
series and what it had become was the block that LeBron had on Iguodala to set
up Kyrie Irving. "Iguodala is a bad m-----f-----," James snapped.
"I had to go chase it down,” James tells ESPN. LeBron had
the “Killer” instinct that a Kobe or Jordan would have in the closing moments
of a Game 7. His spot amongst the greats has been cemented. Now we have to wait
and see where his career finishes.
We may have the next great
Rivalry on our hands. Golden State and Cleveland genuinely dislike each other.
It has the star power of a Bird vs. Magic and the physicality of a Jordan vs. Detroit
Pistons. I predict that we have a trilogy to this series to see who breaks the
tie. Overall, I was satisfied with the series and the outcome. The Storybook
ending has finally happened for LeBron.
