Nothing Will Ever Be the Same for Cavaliers, Warriors After Game 7 of NBA Finals

June 18th, 2016 by Dan Favale Leave a reply »

Almost nothing about the 2016 NBA Finals has been predictable. And after Sunday's Game 7, regardless of who wins, the Cleveland Cavaliers and Golden State Warriors will be left to cope with the profound effects of this unexpectedly epic back-and-forth series.

It's fitting, given all that's happened, isn't it? The Cavaliers looked finished after Game 4. No team in the NBA Finals has ever come back from a 3-1 hole to hoist hardware. Even when they grabbed Game 5 at Oracle Arena, it was tough, borderline impossible, to imagine them turning the tables on the best regular-season squad in league history.

That win, it went, had more to do with Draymond Green's suspension, which is yet another oddball footnote on this series' laundry list of atypical asterisks. But the Cavaliers took Game 6, 115-101, basically ending the Warriors' night in the first quarter with a 31-11 onslaught.



When looking at that score, along with the differentials from Games 1 through 5, the idea of Game 7 makes no sense. Every contest has been decided by at least 11 points. Blowout has followed blowout.

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