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NBA Finals: Warriors vs. Cavaliers Rematch Begins (Tonight) Thursday At Golden State
Bought Another Mansion
The 2016 NBA Finals matchup is set, and it is a re- match of last year's exciting six-game series between the Golden State Warriors and Cleveland Cavaliers. The two teams will vie for the cham- pionship in a best-of-seven series beginning on Thurs- day (tonight), June 2 at Ora- cle Arena in Oakland on ABC.
The Warriors set an NBA record with 73 wins during the regular season, but their three most impressive wins might have been their last three against the Oklahoma City Thunder, overcoming a 3-1 series deficit in the West- ern Conference Finals to win their seventh consecutive postseason series. The clincher came Monday night with a home win in Game 7 to eliminate the upset- minded Thunder.
The Cavaliers are back in the Finals for a second straight season since the re- turn to Cleveland by Le- Bron James, who is in his sixth straight NBA Finals, something the league hasn't seen in 50 years.
Cleveland swept through
son, Golden State prevailed in both games against Cleve- land, winning a hard-fought 89-83 game in Oakland on Christmas Day, followed by a 132-98 drubbing by the War- riors on the road on Jan. 18, one of just eight home losses by Cleveland all season.
Sentinel Pick: While we like both teams equally the same with LeBron James and Stephen Curry leading the way, The Sentinel thinks it's a toss-up. Las Vegas and ESPN give the Warriors an 80 percent chance of winning it. We think LeBron might pull this one out in 6.
Former boxer and hype ma- chine Floyd Mayweather has a new glitzy pad — and it’s a knockout.
The 39-year-old retiree re- cently dropped $7.7 million in cash on a four-bedroom, five- bathroom waterfront house in Miami Beach, Fla.
In true flashy Mayweather fashion, he snapped an Insta- gram photo of his real estate purchase with two Bugattis parked on his driveway. The 5,200-square-foot home fea- tures floor-to-ceiling windows,
an infinity pool with an LED system and a boat dock.
The undefeated boxing champ, who’s reportedly worth up to $650 million, also owns a $1.5 million house in Sunny Isles Beach, Fla., and a $2.5 million condo at the Ritz-Carl- ton Residences in LA. His 20,000-square-foot “big boy mansion” in Las Vegas — with baller features that include a 12-person shower, Fendi light fixtures and a movie theater — even has its own Instagram ac- count.
Floyd Mayweather Mansion
LEBRON JAMES AND STEPHEN CURRY
the first two rounds of the playoffs before needing six games to eliminate the Toronto Raptors in the East- ern Conference Finals.
The Cavaliers led last year's Finals 2-1 before the Warriors captured the final three games to win their first NBA title in four decades. In the 2015-2016 regular sea-
Nicolas Batum Set To Re-Sign With Hornets
Nicolas Batum helped the Charlotte Hornets return to the NBA playoffs this season, where they dropped a hard- fought, seven-game series to the Miami Heat.
A report on the FIBA.com website states the 27-year-old Frenchman, an unrestricted free agent, will re-sign with Charlotte in a time frame that will also benefit France's na- tional team in advance of Au- gust's Rio Olympics.
The eight-year NBA small forward averaged a career-high 14.9 points in 35.0 minutes for the Hornets starting 70 games. Last summer, Batum was ac- quired from the Portland Trail
NICOLAS BATUM
Blazers for power forward Noah Vonleh and shooting guard Gerald Henderson. He was one of four Portland starters who left them via trade or free agency.
France will face the Philip- pines and New Zealand in group competition and might take on Canada, Senegal or Turkey in knockout play.
GOLDEN STATE WARRIORS VS. CLEVELAND CAVALIERS
Game 1: Thursday, June 2 - Cleveland at Golden State, 9 p.m. (ABC) Game 2: Sunday, June 5 - Cleveland at Golden State, 8 p.m. (ABC) Game 3: Wednesday, June 8 - Golden State at Cleveland, 9 p.m. (ABC) Game 4: Friday, June 10 - Golden State at Cleveland, 9 p.m. (ABC) Game 5: Monday, June 13 - Cleveland at Golden State, 9 p.m. (ABC)* Game 6: Thursday, June 16 - Golden State at Cleveland, 9 p.m. (ABC)* Game 7: Sunday, June 19 - Cleveland at Golden State, 8 p.m. (ABC)*
Darren Collison Arrested
For Domestic Violence
Authorities say Sacramento Kings guard Darren Collison was arrested Monday on a do- mestic violence charge after deputies responded to a report of a woman being assaulted in- side a Northern California home.
The Placer County (Califor- nia) Sheriff's Office said in a re- lease on Tuesday they arrested Collison midday Monday after deputies found the woman vis- ibly injured.
The office said Collison, 28, was booked at the Placer County jail in Auburn. He was charged with one count of cor- poral injury on a spouse and two misdemeanor bench war- rants for driving on a sus- pended license.
He was released on $55,000 bail hours after his arrest and is due back in court July 11.
Officials didn't release the name of the woman or any other details.
DARREN COLLISON
The Sacramento Kings said in a brief statement that the team is aware of the arrest.
"The Sacramento Kings con- demn violence of any kind,'' the team said. "We are gathering additional information and once all facts are known we will take appropriate steps.''
Collison appeared in 74 games for the Kings last season, averaging 14 points and 4.3 as- sists. He signed a three-year, $16 million deal with the Kings before the 2014-15 season, but missed the final 33 games with a core muscle injury that re- quired surgery.
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