NBA Finals

The fourth title 'hits different' for Curry, Thompson and Green because of the way they got there.

"Between a second year-long injury and losing what he loves to do most in life, you know, playing the game, it's been a rough go for him. No matter how far they get, whether they make it back to the Finals or not, you can expect Curry, Green and Thompson -- the unique, selfless, superstar triumvirate -- to appreciate every moment along the way. "With Steph, Klay, Draymond, what they have done in this league and the foundation they have been able to build, you've got to give them a lot of credit," said Warriors forward Andre Iguodala, who was alongside the trio for all four titles. What's evident from hearing the Warriors speak, however, is that this title also means more to the entire organization because of what Thompson has endured. And I think for us, we all appreciate each other and we understand what each of us bring to the table. It's easy to say that this championship means more to Thompson because of what he's been through over the last three years. "I think this one may have been the most unlikely, just from the standpoint of where we've been the last couple years." A lot of doubters," Thompson said after the Game 6 win. "I couldn't imagine sharing this journey with anyone else," Green said of Curry and Thompson after practice on Wednesday. "You know, we built this thing from the ground up, and when you build something from the ground up, that's your baby. Those bonds also allowed Curry the room to flourish as the unquestioned head of the snake, facing defenses never before seen in the NBA, on a team that lacked the offensive options it once had. The trio, composed of three historically unique players who complement each other on the court in ways that render opponents paralyzed, have also reached a balance off the court that has allowed them to ascend, excel and persevere for the past 10 seasons. On stage after the game to accept the franchise's seventh overall NBA title, Warriors owner Joe Lacob said that the 2022 title is "probably the most meaningful one."

Boston Celtics players lamented the pain of falling short in the NBA Finals but said they'll use the experience to help them contend for titles again in the ...

Now, the Celtics will head into the summer thinking about what might have been and excited about where this franchise is headed after making it to the NBA Finals for the first time in 12 years. Continuing to get better, continuing to find different ways to lead. Personally, I still got a lot to learn. That means we still got a lot to learn. I'm viewing it and looking at all the s--- we had to get through to get here just to even get to this situation to have an opportunity." Got to be better. "That was part of the message. "It don't stop hurting," he said, when asked when he will begin moving on from this loss. Trying, though, wasn't enough to solve the puzzles Golden State presented this Boston team. One of them was clearly Tatum, who looked like he didn't want to speak for most of his postgame news conference. In the game's opening minutes, it looked like Boston would be in business. But, as Jayson Tatum said, it was Boston's poise on the offensive end that repeatedly failed the Celtics, as they committed one turnover after another.

His resume is ridiculous: Curry is an eight-time All-Star, a two-time NBA MVP, a two-time scoring champion, All-Star Game MVP, now is a four-time champion ...

They had three titles and five finals trips in five years from 2015 through 2019, then injuries and roster changes sent them to the bottom of the NBA in 2020 and on the outside of the playoff picture last year. The fourth parade is Monday. The fourth ring comes this fall. When last season ended with a loss in the play-in tournament, Curry went right back to work, with this title in mind, knowing that few so-called experts thought the Warriors had a chance of extending their dynasty. “This is what it’s all about.” Very few people saw this coming 13 years ago. And his legend on the court only continues to grow. Nobody in the history of basketball has made more 3-pointers or made the art of throwing a ball through a hoop look easier than Curry does. “To me, this is his crowning achievement in what’s already been an incredible career.” Curry’s spot in the Basketball Hall of Fame was locked up long before Thursday night, when he scored 34 points and the Warriors won their fourth title in eight years by topping the Boston Celtics 103-90. The 34-year-old Curry is stronger than ever, tougher than ever and, somehow, more motivated than ever. Add that to the list, too. Go ahead, put him in the Greatest Of All Time conversation. What a series.”

After a two-year NBA playoff hiatus, the Warriors have climbed back to the mountaintop and planted their flag at the summit.

But Curry dropped an incredible 43 points in Game 4, saving the season and shifting the momentum of the series. And they have another piece of hardware to prove it. By winning Game 4, they now have won a road game in 27 consecutive series. The Finals series against the Celtics wasn't easy, and after dropping Game 3 in Boston, it looked like the Warriors' season was teetering on the brink of disaster. And as soon as he returned, Green left the lineup for two months with a back injury. But just like old times, the core players gelled quickly, along with Andrew Wiggins, Jordan Poole, Kevon Looney and the rest of the bench unit.

For sure. You bookend it,” Curry told Yahoo Sports when asked if he wanted to do it without his former teammate, Kevin Durant.

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The Golden State Warriors triumphed over the Boston Celtics on Thursday with a 103-90 victory in Game Six of the NBA Finals in Boston, marking the fourth ...

Meanwhile, their Celtics teammate Jayson Tatum was held to 13 points on 6 of 18 shooting. The two players hugged each other at the final bell. The Golden State Warriors triumphed over the Boston Celtics on Thursday with a 103-90 victory in Game Six of the NBA Finals in Boston, marking the fourth time the Warriors have won the trophy in eight years.

Steve Kerr's side overcome the Celtics in their own backyard with a score of 103-90, and with that have proven themselves as one the greatest basketball teams ...

Steve Kerr's side overcome the Celtics in their own backyard with a score of 103-90, and with that have proven themselves as one the greatest basketball teams in sporting memory. You can't ever take this for granted because you never know when you’re going to get back here." The Warriors at one stage in the series were 1-0 and 2-1 down in the seven-game finals series, but a win at home last week set up the clincher and with that came the win to avoid game 7

BOSTON – The roar of the crowd, so mighty for the first six minutes, died early Thursday night at TD Garden. The Warriors woke up in the seventh minute, put the ...

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The Warriors were able to summon the juice. And it was enough to make them champions once more.

That is, in the NBA, old. What followed, though, was a series of trials and tribulations, losses to vastly inferior teams. These Warriors raised eyebrows in the first three months, winning 28 of their first 35 games. They heard the chatter, and those concerns are based in fact. One game after his return in March, Curry goes down for the rest of the regular season. On the night of his return in January, Draymond goes down and misses two months.

Golden State wins another title, and nobody can doubt Stephen Curry ever again.

The Celtics could never get close enough to push the Warriors and make them uneasy. There is a lot of mileage — and stressful mileage, at that — on the core after six finals appearances in an eight-year period. It gave the Warriors the cushion they needed to cruise to victory. That number went up to 15.4 percent in the postseason and 17.6 percent in the NBA Finals. In Game 6, the Celtics couldn’t help themselves. Then, a turnover by the Celtics led to a Draymond Green layup in transition. “Only” 13 of the 23 turnovers were of the live-ball variety, and the Warriors “only” converted those 23 turnovers into 20 points. The Boston Celtics jumped out to a 14-2 lead right out of the gate, throwing the first punch at the Warriors in this game. The Warriors were gone for two seasons — two of the most chaotic seasons in NBA history — and returned to this level at the first chance of their core being healthy again. Tatum had a rough go of it and was held scoreless for most of the second half. And against Tatum, he never fell asleep off the ball and tried to stay in his jersey when Tatum had the ball. That’s because of Curry’s play, his leadership and the inspiration he galvanizes throughout the construction of a roster and the belief of a team from the first minute of training camp through the final seconds of a closeout victory in the NBA Finals. In his Game 6 performance, he did what the Warriors did all season long in their return to prominence: He weathered the storm.

After a two-year NBA playoff hiatus, the Warriors have climbed back to the mountaintop and planted their flag at the summit.

But Curry dropped an incredible 43 points in Game 4, saving the season and shifting the momentum of the series. And they have another piece of hardware to prove it. The Finals series against the Celtics wasn't easy, and after dropping Game 3 in Boston, it looked like the Warriors' season was teetering on the brink of disaster. By winning Game 4, they now have won a road game in 27 consecutive series. And as soon as he returned, Green left the lineup for two months with a back injury. But just like old times, the core players gelled quickly, along with Andrew Wiggins, Jordan Poole, Kevon Looney and the rest of the bench unit.

Curry joins the likes of LeBron James and Shaquille O'Neal with his fourth ring.

Myers believed that as long as the Warriors had Curry they had what it took to win another title without compromising the future, and he was right. Curry is 34 years old and you have to wonder if he's got another five LeBron-like years in him, where age doesn't seem to have nearly the same impact it does on most. If Kevin Durant doesn't go down in 2019, if Draymond Green doesn't get suspended in 2016, Curry probably has at least five titles in these eight years, and very possibly six, with a record-breaking 73-win season on the card as well. The best player on one of the greatest dynasties in sports history. That makes him the first player in NBA history to make at least five 3-pointers in five games of a single Finals series. Steph is one of the all-timers. He's also one of just five players to win multiple regular-season MVPs, multiple scoring titles and Finals MVP, and he's just the third guard in history to average at least 30 points in two separate Finals. We're running out of room on a resume that is becoming pretty tough to keep out of any all-time-great conversation worth its salt. He's the guy that keeps everyone together in the locker room, the selfless star who plays without the ball and makes room for others to shine. The rare superstar blend of humility and downright arrogant confidence in his own abilities that, as Steve Kerr told Scott Van Pelt after the win, "makes everyone in the locker room want to fight for him." Like Kerr said, credit to Myers for pulling all the right roster strings, and for not pulling a few others that plenty of people thought he should've pulled. Besides that LeBron needed Wade and Chris Bosh, Shaq needed Kobe and Wade, Magic needed Kareem. That's how it works, particularly with the depth of talent that exists in the modern NBA. Nobody does it alone. First of all, Curry won a title before Durant and now he has won one after him.

Jayson Tatum of the Boston Celtics dunks against the Golden State Warriors in Game 6 of the 2022 NBA Finals at TD Garden on June 16, 2022 in Boston, ...

“But, you know, what I did say was the future is bright and we’re just getting started so let’s all come back better from this experience.” Tatum was First Team All-NBA and the Eastern Conference Finals MVP whose performance in this series was the mark of someone whose game is still a work in progress, not a finished product. A wise master once said that failure is the greatest teacher. “The future is bright,” Brown said. Marcus Smart was Defensive Player of the Year. Jaylen Brown was an offensive spark throughout the series and continues to push the limits of narratives of how far he can go. Boston’s biggest tell this series has been turnovers and that showed in Game 6 as the Celtics gave the ball away 23 times for 20 points on the night.

NBA Finals: how many rings do Steph Curry, LeBron James and Michael Jordan have - who has most Championships? After winning the NBA Championships, Stephen Curry ...

Shaquille O’Neal has four rings, three of which he won with the Los Angeles Lakers in 2000, 2001 and 2002 and one with Miami Heat in 2006. Dennis Rodman has five rings - three of which he bagged with the Chicago Bulls alongside Jordan and Pippen in 1996, 1997 and 1998, and the other two when he played with the Detroit Pistons in 1989 and 1990. He was a five time NBA Most Valuable Player (MVP) recipient, a 12 time NBA All-Star and in 2009 the NBA renamed its NBA Finals’ Most Valuable Player trophy to the Bill Russell NBA Finals Most Valuable Player Award.

Golden State looks flawless in clincher, Stephen Curry's legacy continues to grow and Jayson Tatum isn't quite at superstar status after rough NBA Finals.

Durant is a constant on social media and maybe in the next few days he’ll break his Warriors’ silence. Durant was on two of those teams, won Finals MVP both times and then in the summer of 2019 bailed for Brooklyn in free agency, essentially trading Curry for Kyrie Irving. That unit eventually won this championship because, other than Curry and Wiggins, the Warriors lacked consistency from the rotation. He helped elevate the confidence of Andrew Wiggins, dumped by his former team in Minnesota and mostly dismissed by the basketball world as an underachiever. He took over for Mark Jackson and won a championship, and then again eight years later, all without much experience on the bench prior to this job. He was spooked by his constant mistakes, didn’t even attempt a free throw and wasn’t heard from in the fourth. This is what he learned about himself in the Finals, and there’s no particular shame in falling short. Tatum was not against the Warriors, and was especially exposed in Game 6, when he went out meekly. After a three-year delay caused by injuries and a noticeable defection — more on him later — the Warriors returned to the throne and carried on like they never really left. The Warriors were up 15 at halftime, 22 in the third and 10 entering the fourth. So his story, and the debate, isn’t finished. The Warriors set out to reclaim the title on this journey of redemption and got their just reward.

The Warriors' pandemic-era decline and the uncertainty that once surrounded their biggest stars are enough to make this title a genuine feelgood story.

And they’re still a franchise built for the pleasure and enrichment of early-stage investors in Amazon and Palantir. But somehow, in spite of all that, this Warriors team feels distinct, less straightforwardly unsympathetic than the back-to-back champions of Durant and co. The old belligerence is still there – the elbows, the shoves, the buttocks thrust aggressively across the lane – and the trash talk remains unrivaled, even in victory (there was a typically chesty description of the NBA as “the Warriors invitational” on the victory podium last night), but the effect is now curiously endearing: to see the man doing his thing again after these few years away is like watching an old uncle get mad at the TV remote for not working properly. But what was most striking about this devastating surge was the identity of its orchestrators: not Curry or Thompson but Jordan Poole and Andrew Wiggins, who together put together a sequence of big threes, torrential dunks, and critical blocks to take the game – and the championship – definitively away from the Celtics. These rising Warriors are not only capable but personable, and the effect seems to be rubbing off on the team as a whole. After a Game 5 devoid of a single Curry maximum – a true collector’s item – the maestro’s hands returned to him last night: not for the first time in the NBA finals, and surely not for the last, the game’s second half became its own kind of athletic weather system as a delicate, relentless rain of threes issued from the fingertips of Wardell Stephen Curry II. But Curry has also been deadly in these finals without the ball in hand, lifting his teammates even when he has shot poorly: in Game 5, Curry’s teammates shot 63% from the field when he was on the court v 22% when he was off, continuing a series-long trend. And then there’s Curry, still bouncy after 13 seasons in the NBA, still boyish at 34 – the man with the guard permanently hanging out of his mouth, and the ball perpetually on its way through the net. The Warriors entered their flop era, finishing last in the Western Conference in 2019-20 (with a record of 15-50) and again failing to make the playoffs, despite a marginal regular season improvement, in 2020-21. It’s fitting that a series marked by the unusual volatility of its scoring patterns – Boston’s comeback in the final quarter of Game 1 will live long in the memory – was capped by the longest run in an NBA finals game in 50 years. The likability of these Warriors, resurgent and resplendent once more, is mostly a function of how far they had fallen, how much they suffered, how deeply they – to use Green’s own term of art – “sucked.” But it also says something about the reconstitution of a team that has shown it can get it done with young talent, without needing to rely on the mercenary brilliance of an off-the-shelf superstar like Durant. The team that had made Oakland its home turned its back on the “bad” side of the Bay and ran headlong into the puffer-vested embrace of the San Francisco tech elite. The Warriors – data-driven, unemotional, technocratic, bombing their opponents from beyond the three-point line, and drawn into an ever-deepening alliance with Silicon Valley – seemed to typify something about the distance that different elements of American society had taken from each other since the turn of the century. The reasons for this near-universal dismissal are not hard to comprehend, since the Warriors over the previous two seasons have had the rare distinction of being both intensely disliked and very bad at basketball. “I didn’t learn anything about myself, I knew I was resilient,” said Draymond Green, on the victory podium at Boston’s TD Garden, when asked to reflect on how his understanding of himself and his teammates had changed over the course of these finals.

Analytics models gave Boston a better than 80% chance to win the series, but those calculations failed to account for Golden State's championship DNA.

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Four N.B.A. championships. Two Most Valuable Player Awards. And yes, a finals M.V.P. Golden State's Curry has nothing else to prove.

The second was that he had not been named a finals M.V.P. Standing alone at midcourt, Curry seemed to be laughing and crying at the same time, a euphoric mix of feelings. The first was that he had neither helped his team win a title without Kevin Durant nor defeated a finals opponent who was at full strength. Curry missed the final 12 games of the regular season with a sprained left foot, then aggravated the injury in Game 3 of the finals. He chomped on a victory cigar as he held his finals M.V.P. trophy aloft, pushing it skyward once, twice, three times. All he did in Game 4 was score 43 points to help Golden State even the series at two games apiece. The way he stretches the court with his interplanetary shooting. The Warriors scuffled through a slow rebuild. BOSTON — A few seconds remained in Stephen Curry’s N.B.A. season when he spotted his father, Dell, sitting along one of the baselines. He also recalled the exact moment he started preparing for the start of this season — 371 days ago. “Everybody wants to shoot 3s, and I’m like: ‘Man, you got to work a little harder to shoot like him. For the series, Curry averaged 31.2 points, 6 rebounds and 5 assists while shooting 48.2 percent from the field and 43.7 percent from 3-point range.

A tweet posted by Jayson Tatum in 2015 turned out to be an eerily accurate prediction of the Warriors' 2022 NBA Finals win over his own team, ...

This isn’t the first time this has happened to an NBA star the Warriors faced in the playoffs this year, either. Fast forward to 2022, and Tatum’s Celtics made it all the way to their own Game 6 against the Warriors in the Finals. They weren’t able to stop Steph Curry & Co. from winning their fourth title in eight seasons, though, and Tatum’s post from 2015 eerily predicted his own fate that would come less than a decade later. Back in 2015, Tatum was a high school junior watching Golden State face off against the Cleveland Cavaliers in the Finals. The Warriors would go on to win in six games, something Tatum accurately predicted with his tweet.

After winning the 2022 NBA Finals, the Golden State Warriors are listed as one of three favorites to win it all next season.

Still, it's hard not to like the Warriors' chances of hoisting the Larry O'Brien Trophy again in 2023. Then there are the Mavericks, Nuggets and Grizzlies all lurking as well. Golden State is the most recent NBA team to win back-to-back championships, doing so in 2017 and 2018.

After having those hopes dashed in the haze of three straight losses to the champion Golden State Warriors, Boston's young core is vowing to use the pain as ...

We all know what the goal is in the future.” … Things we went through to get here showed us what we have to come for us in the future,” he said. The trade of Kemba Walker last offseason and jettisoning of Dennis Schroder this season put the responsibility in Smart’s hands. The good news for Boston is that their coach has experienced both extremes of the finals. The Celtics were 1-7 in the playoffs when committing 16 or more turnovers. He took Boston to three conference finals but failed to help its youthful core led by budding All-Stars Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown get over the hump.

Draymond Green, Klay Thompson and Stephen Curry celebrate winning their fourth NBA title together. Adam Glanzman / Getty Images. For the fourth time in eight ...

In the here and now, though, we know it wasn’t — and that likely makes it all the sweeter for the victors. Wiggins’s 3-point shooting did not carry over from the regular season ( 39.3 percent) to the playoffs ( 33.3 percent) or Finals ( 29.7 percent), but he made up for it with a hellacious commitment to defense and rebounding (29 boards combined in Games 4 and 5). Once one of the worst positional rebounders in the league, Wiggins led the Finals in rebounds. That they did is a testament to what they’ve built, and who they’ve built around, and who has done the building. His adjustments during the series, and throughout the playoffs, were top-notch. Otto Porter Jr., who played only 42 games across the previous two seasons due to various injuries, emerged as a key rotation player and occasional starter, including in Golden State’s three consecutive victories to win the series. Gary Payton II, who considered taking a job in the Warriors’ video coordination department but instead made the team out of training camp, returned from a fractured elbow suffered during the second round and played a key role in shutting down Boston’s offense. He did not return to the floor this season until early January, after he had missed 940 days in the wake of ACL and Achilles tears. He has grown into an uber-athletic, two-way wing, one who defended Luka Dončić and Tatum in back-to-back series and not only lived to tell about it but thrived along the way. He smothered Jayson Tatum (who made the All-NBA First Team this season), keeping the Celtics’ best player under wraps and out of sorts all series long. Green also missed ample time this year with back and calf injuries, and for the first few games of the Finals, he was in such a bad funk that Kerr briefly benched him down the stretch of Game 4. But he went and got that Finals MVP anyway, putting together one of the best playoff series of his terrific career. Klay made at least five treys in seven of Golden State’s 22 playoff games, poured in 32 points in the series-clinching Game 5 of the Western Conference finals and connected on two enormous threes to keep the Warriors in range of the Celtics during their comeback Game 5 victory, as well as another that just about put the game out of reach.

A look at the number of minutes played by the Celtics' key players compared to the Warriors' shows how much fatigue may have been a factor in their NBA ...

They had 18 turnovers in their Game 5 defeat and a whopping 22 in the Game 6 finale. The Warriors, meanwhile, started their season 29-9 and could coast their way to a playoff spot. You won't hear any excuses from the C's after their season came to an unceremonious end Thursday night, but a closer look at the numbers shows fatigue definitely could've been a factor.

It's one that has defined his spectacular career. However, watching him to sink to the court in tears in the final seconds of the Golden State Warriors' Game 6 ...

With Curry on the court in the Finals, the Warriors averaged 111.9 points per 100 possessions. He averaged 5.0 assists – only Tatum (7.0) and Green (6.2) had more, while he was also third in average plus-minus (5.8). The two players ahead of him on the list, Kevon Looney (8.0) and Gary Payton II (7.0), averaged 21.7 and 18.6 minutes in the series, respectively. Without him, they connected on 30.9% on 3s and put up 21.5 points in the paint per 100. At one point in the first half, Golden State went on a 21-0 scoring run that marked the longest in the last 50 years of Finals history. The Warriors’ decision to hold on to the draft assets they accumulated rather than packaging them to acquire a fourth star was met with skepticism in plenty of corners. Now, after a career-defining Finals performance, they are non-existent and, regardless of what else he achieves before he retires, his place is reserved for good. “I hear all the narratives,” Curry said. There was agony in 2020-21 as an MVP caliber season from Curry ended with defeat in the play-in tournament. The Warriors had the worst record in the league at 15-50. Curry averaged 31.2 points – almost 10 more than second-best Jayson Tatum (21.5) – and his 31 3s were comfortably the most by any player in the series. Curry’s resume has long since been sparkling and he has continued to embellish it. Curry’s outpouring of emotion upon the final buzzer illustrated as such.

The Bay Area team snagged their 7th championship last night & the Disney-owned net had a win as well.

What makes that drop even more vinegar is that the 2019 series saw the losing Warriors pitted against the NBA’s only non-American based team, the Toronto Raptors. So, while the 2019 NBA Finals were off the chart in the Great White North, they were already limping from having only one U.S. market to draw from. Having weathered rough ratings seas over the past two years of the Covid-19 pandemic, ABC must be feeling pretty victorious, at least in the short term. Now well ensconced in the pantheon of basketball, the big win for Stephen Curry, Draymond Green, Klay Thompson and their teammates, plus coach Steve Kerr may be all the sweeter after the past two seasons when it looked like the shine was off the Bay Area team.

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It's one that has defined his spectacular career. However, watching him to sink to the court in tears in the final seconds of the Golden State Warriors' Game 6 ...

With Curry on the court in the Finals, the Warriors averaged 111.9 points per 100 possessions. He averaged 5.0 assists – only Tatum (7.0) and Green (6.2) had more, while he was also third in average plus-minus (5.8). The two players ahead of him on the list, Kevon Looney (8.0) and Gary Payton II (7.0), averaged 21.7 and 18.6 minutes in the series, respectively. Without him, they connected on 30.9% on 3s and put up 21.5 points in the paint per 100. At one point in the first half, Golden State went on a 21-0 scoring run that marked the longest in the last 50 years of Finals history. The Warriors’ decision to hold on to the draft assets they accumulated rather than packaging them to acquire a fourth star was met with skepticism in plenty of corners. Now, after a career-defining Finals performance, they are non-existent and, regardless of what else he achieves before he retires, his place is reserved for good. “I hear all the narratives,” Curry said. There was agony in 2020-21 as an MVP caliber season from Curry ended with defeat in the play-in tournament. The Warriors had the worst record in the league at 15-50. Curry averaged 31.2 points – almost 10 more than second-best Jayson Tatum (21.5) – and his 31 3s were comfortably the most by any player in the series. Curry’s resume has long since been sparkling and he has continued to embellish it. Curry’s outpouring of emotion upon the final buzzer illustrated as such.