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Sports The ‘King’ Is In The NBA Championship Finals, AGAIN!
And So Are His Friends, Steph And Kevin D
Naysayers can now shut- up. He is ‘King’ and that’s that!
LeBron James is syn- onymous with the NBA Fi- nals at this point.
The four-time league MVP scored 35 points with 15 rebounds and nine assists on Sunday night, leading the Cleveland Cavaliers to an 87- 79 win over the Celtics and eliminating Boston from the Eastern Conference finals in the decisive seventh game.
The King, LeBron James carried his team on his back to the NBA championship fi- nals against the Golden State Warriors for the 4th time.
After playing all 82 games and leading the NBA in total minutes in his 15th season that included a complete ros- ter overhaul, King James played all 48 minutes in front of a hostile Boston crowd. It was the Celtics' first loss at TD Garden this postseason, but dominating a Game 7 was business as usual for James.
Game 1 against the Golden State Warriors is Thursday (tonight).
Tyronn Lue Warns Against Counting Cavs Out In Finals
TYRONN LUE
The Cleveland Cavaliers enter their NBA Finals series against the Golden State War- riors as heavy underdogs, but Tyronn Lue is maintaining his confidence.
Speaking with the media on Tuesday, the Cavs head coach warned against writing off his team.
“You can’t count us out. We’ve been in every possible position you can be in in the playoffs,” said Lue, per Rick Noland of the Elyria Chroni- cle-Telegram. “It’s not over till it’s over.”
For what it’s worth, Las Vegas lists the Cavs as +650 underdogs for the series, mak- ing them the biggest Finals underdogs since the then-New Jersey Nets in 2002 as well as the biggest of any LeBron James-led Finals team.
The Warriors are feeling good about their chances heading into the series, but underestimating James and the Cavs will be at their own peril.
Steph Curry celebrates the Warriors win on Monday.
The Golden State Warriors seemed to be getting bullied by the Houston Rockets and their fans. Through seven games over a span of 15 days, they managed to stay posed and push the intensity when necessary.
Now the Warriors are set to play on the game’s biggest stage once again — con- fronting LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers for the fourth June in a row.
The Warriors delivered the Rockets a 101-92 defeat in Game 7 of the Western Con- ference finals at Toyota Center in Houston.
They were tough, were
KEVIN DURANT
shotmakers and played like the champions they are in the clutch Monday night to sur- vive their first true state of emergency in the Kevin Du- rant era.
Led by Kevin Durant’s 34 points and Curry’s 27 — including 11 points in a row from Curry during a critical game-turning stretch after in- termission — Golden State erased a deficit that climbed as high as 15 points in the first half and overcame Klay Thompson’s rare foul trou- ble to complete a memorable rebound from what was at one point a 3-2 deficit in the se- ries.
South Africa Names
Its First Black Rugby
Captain In 127-Year History
When South Africa's rugby union team walks out on home turf against Eng- land next month, they will be led by their first ever Black Test match captain.
Flanker Siya Kolisi was bestowed with the Spring- boks armband on Monday, continuing a journey that has seen him ascend from hum- ble beginnings in an Eastern Cape township to the top of international rugby.
The news comes three years on from Kolisi's sen- ior international debut, in which he was named man of
Police Officers Who
SIYA KOLISI
the match against Scotland. The 26-year-old has since ac- cumulated 28 Test appear- ances, scoring four tries.
Tasered Milwaukee Buck
Player Sterling Brown
Get Slap On The Wrist
In January 26, in Milwau- kee, several police vehicles were called for backup before officers used a taser to vio- lently arrest an unarmed NBA player over a parking viola- tion in a Walgreens parking lot in the middle of the night.
Aggressive force was used on Sterling Brown, then 22, all because the Milwaukee Bucks rookie parked his car across two handicapped spaces, police said at the time. The video was released last week, and the Mayor of Mil- waukee apologized. However, the Milwaukee Police Chief Alfonso Morales explained in a statement on Friday how the officers will be punished.
“One member with eleven and a half years of service and two years as a police sergeant received a (15) fifteen-day suspension
“One member with twelve years of service and one year as a police sergeant received a (10) ten-day suspension.
He continued: “One mem- ber with two and a half years
Brown was
Sterling
tasered by several Milwaukee police officers in January. However, the department held the video cam recording until last week.
of service as an officer re- ceived a (2) two-day suspen- sion. Based on the above precedent alone, many feel the cops should be fired. However, the Milwaukee Po- lice Department has a long history of racism.
“The video shows no jus- tice at what really happened,” Brown, whose father is a for- mer police officer, told Good Morning America on Friday. “Like, it’s a body-cam, it’s close, you can hear me screaming.
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