That could REALLY impact game 7. If he's not 100% that's huge!
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Yea bro...I'd look for Mo to get some minutes vs Delly
I'm all about that pressure
Curry will roast MO
Damn...
That is big deal if true
They need all hands on deck.
What are the odds REALLY?
That Kevin Love will show up?
Just for ONE game?
Cause quiet is kept within real basketball circles and offices...
His legacy is the only one in real jeopardy?
damn dude stays injured. They better shoot that shit up, Deion Sanders style.
Yep. Got mine in for tomorrow. PM me
I think Love would have a better showing offensive, just because they would move the ball a little more, but it all comes down to Lebron's will power.
Lue gotta use Jones, Jefferson, Mo and maybe even Fyre in certain situations to get buckets...
Mo Speights comes in Fyre comes in, play the cross matchups if Kyrie is limited.
Kyrie Irving says he's 'good' for Game 7 after suffering foot injury in the third quarter Thursday
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- During portions of the second half in Game 6 of the NBA Finals, Cleveland Cavaliers point guard Kyrie Irving appeared to be hobbled, chatting on the bench with the training staff about a left foot injury.
But following the game, first with a non-working microphone, Irving laid to rest any uneasiness about his Game 7 status.
"I'm good," Irving said when asked about his foot. "I'm good, yeah. I'm good. I'm OK."
Irving finished with 23 points, four rebounds, three assists, two steals and two blocks in the Cavaliers' 115-101 win against Golden State, which forced Game 7.
The injury happened in the third quarter, as Irving was running one of his many pick-and-rolls with Tristan Thompson. Warriors center Festus Ezeli stepped on Irving's left foot while attempting to keep the ultra-quick point guard from getting into the paint. Irving didn't look to have the same burst following that play.
He scored 20 of his 23 points in the first half. He was just 1-of-6 from the field in the second half.
"He just tweaked it a little bit, but he's going to be fine," Cavs head coach Tyronn Lue said. "His performance was great. He really got us off to a great start in that first half."
The Cavs have two days off before Game 7, when they will get an opportunity to cap their historic comeback, a chance for Irving and the Cavs to avenge last year's Finals defeat against Golden State.
"Don't shy away from it. It's Game 7," Irving said following the win. "All I've done over my life is watched a lot of Game 7s and seen how guys come out, seeing the sway of the game, just watch a lot of film on it. But now that I actually get to play in one and experience it, it's just I'm ready to live in it, and just hoping we come out with a win on the other end of it.
"But this is the all-time, all-time high of being part of a team when both teams have one chance to win championships, one game that's separating that, and it just doesn't stop there. So I'm excited to just get to Sunday and see what it's really like."
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- During portions of the second half in Game 6 of the NBA Finals, Cleveland Cavaliers point guard Kyrie Irving appeared to be hobbled, chatting on the bench with the training staff about a left foot injury.
But following the game, first with a non-working microphone, Irving laid to rest any uneasiness about his Game 7 status.
"I'm good," Irving said when asked about his foot. "I'm good, yeah. I'm good. I'm OK."
Irving finished with 23 points, four rebounds, three assists, two steals and two blocks in the Cavaliers' 115-101 win against Golden State, which forced Game 7.
The injury happened in the third quarter, as Irving was running one of his many pick-and-rolls with Tristan Thompson. Warriors center Festus Ezeli stepped on Irving's left foot while attempting to keep the ultra-quick point guard from getting into the paint. Irving didn't look to have the same burst following that play.
He scored 20 of his 23 points in the first half. He was just 1-of-6 from the field in the second half.
"He just tweaked it a little bit, but he's going to be fine," Cavs head coach Tyronn Lue said. "His performance was great. He really got us off to a great start in that first half."
The Cavs have two days off before Game 7, when they will get an opportunity to cap their historic comeback, a chance for Irving and the Cavs to avenge last year's Finals defeat against Golden State.
"Don't shy away from it. It's Game 7," Irving said following the win. "All I've done over my life is watched a lot of Game 7s and seen how guys come out, seeing the sway of the game, just watch a lot of film on it. But now that I actually get to play in one and experience it, it's just I'm ready to live in it, and just hoping we come out with a win on the other end of it.
"But this is the all-time, all-time high of being part of a team when both teams have one chance to win championships, one game that's separating that, and it just doesn't stop there. So I'm excited to just get to Sunday and see what it's really like."
Still think if love don't show up...
He ain't gonna be able to live that down...
He gonna have to go Bosh...
Rebound, defense, assists, blocks and at least ONE big mid range jumper or three pointer.
Sources: NBA salary cap projected to
increase more than previous estimates
By Shams Charania of The Vertical 21 hours ago Yahoo Sports
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Kevin Durant will headline this summer's free-agent class. (Getty Images)
The NBA sent a memo on Friday afternoon that the Basketball Related Income (BRI) for this past season is ongoing and that the increased projection for the next salary cap is due to "business outperformance since the previous estimates."
The salary cap for the 2015-16 season was $70 million.
The NBA's projected salary cap and tax level of $94 million and $113 million, respectively, have increased since the previous estimates done by the league and its players' union.
The maximum player salaries are now expected to be $22 million for tier 1, $26.4 million for tier 2 and $30.8 million for tier 3.
The final amount for the salary cap remains ongoing, pending the completion of the 2015-16 BRI audit report on July 6, the NBA wrote in the memo.
increase more than previous estimates
By Shams Charania of The Vertical 21 hours ago Yahoo Sports
View photo
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Kevin Durant will headline this summer's free-agent class. (Getty Images)
The NBA sent a memo on Friday afternoon that the Basketball Related Income (BRI) for this past season is ongoing and that the increased projection for the next salary cap is due to "business outperformance since the previous estimates."
The salary cap for the 2015-16 season was $70 million.
The NBA's projected salary cap and tax level of $94 million and $113 million, respectively, have increased since the previous estimates done by the league and its players' union.
The maximum player salaries are now expected to be $22 million for tier 1, $26.4 million for tier 2 and $30.8 million for tier 3.
The final amount for the salary cap remains ongoing, pending the completion of the 2015-16 BRI audit report on July 6, the NBA wrote in the memo.
Fuck Love. Keep his as where he been for the last 3 games. Its not time to change up now. All CAVS have to do is get around them illegal ass screens and keep a hand up. Let GS hit them long ass 3s and keep chippin away in the paint. Them 3s prolly wont fall all night.
Bron gotta go Bron on them fools tomorrow. I see him bringing it whether Kyrie hurt or not.
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No limit to what we could see from LeBron James in Game 7
LeBron James of the Cavaliers looks to block the shot of Warriors guard Stephen Curry during Game 6 of the NBA Finals on Thursday. (Ron Schwane/AP)
MICHAEL GRANGE
JUNE 17, 2016, 9:31 PM
SAN FRANCISCO – On the night before the greatest game of his playoff career – and one of the greatest of anyone’s career –LeBron James was shooting hoops with his sons, LeBron Jr., 11, and Bryce, who just turned nine.
It was not going well.
"I actually had a competitive shooting game with my sons," James said. "You know, we were shooting baskets last night between myself and my two boys, which ended up not going so well for me at times. You know, those guys have home-court advantage over me."
In another set of circumstances the anecdote would be a perfect set up, like: James can’t even win against his kids in June!
Or: Even James’ kids know the old man can’t shoot!
The issues are related. James’ struggles shooting the ball have been his Achilles heel the past two seasons and it’s been magnified this time of the year when the spotlight shines brightest and never more than against theGolden State Warriors. It’s a flaw that has allowed opponents to at least believe the force he plays with can be blunted. The Warriors’ posse of long, agile defenders held James – who shot a remarkable 55 per cent from the field and 39 per cent from three in his last two seasons with the Miami Heat – to just 41 per cent from the field and 27 per cent from three over a 10-game game stretch dating back to Game 1 of the 2015 NBA Finals. Not surprisingly theCleveland Cavaliers went 2-8 against the Warriors including losing seven straight.
The Warriors seemed to have identified and exploited James’ fatal flaw and it lent the air of statistical legitimacy to arguments that James’ best days were behind him and the Warriors’ sweet-shootingStephen Curry was the NBA’s best player, not him.
The King was no more.
James entered the Finals in a tough spot. One hand this is his seventh time playing for a championship in his 13-year career and his sixth straight Finals, a feat of consistent brilliance no one has achieved in the NBA since the 1960s-era Celtics dynasty when the NBA was an eight-team league with no salary caps or free agency.
For that alone he should be celebrated.
But weighing against James is that he’s 2-4 in Finals and when the Cavaliers fell behind against the Warriors 2-0 and 3-1 it looked very much like he was going to be 2-5 – no team in NBA history has ever won a championship while being down two games.
So even the great Jerry West was coming to James’ defence. Well, of course he would: West went 1-8 in Finals in his career with the Los Angeles Lakers.
“With him, the negativity that surrounds him, honestly, to me, I think is so unjust and so unfair,” West told reporters earlier in the series. “Take him off of the team and see how these teams do. That’s all you have to do. Take him off. And it frustrates the heck out of me when I see some of these players who play this game at an enormously high level get criticized because their teams quote, ‘Can’t win the big one.’ The damn guy gets his teams there every year. He wins."
James is being compared with the likes of Magic Johnson (5-3), Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (6-4) and – of course – Michael Jordan, who went a perfect 6-0 in the Finals with six MVPs, a gold standard that may never be reached again.
But just when the jury was gathering yet another bit of damming evidence about James falling short he comes through with a pair of consecutive masterpieces nearly unmatched in Finals history. He’s propelled the Cavaliers into Game 7, a first for a team that started 0-2 and the first time in 50 years for a team that started the Finals 1-3.
His Game 5 performance on the road, facing elimination at Oracle Arena where the Warriors had lost just three times this season was already one for the ages – according to Basketball-Reference no one put up 41 points, 16 rebounds, seven assists, three blocks and three steals in a Finals game since data was available to search beginning in 1983-84. The stats database mashes up box scores from as far back 1983-84 and expresses the numbers with a weighted catch-all measurement they call GameScore. In Game 5 James’ GameScore was 39.2, the second highest in 32 years.
And then James played better in Game 6. His line of 41 points (again!); eight rebounds and 11 assists with four steals and three blocks translated into a GameScore of 42.5, the best ever recorded.
In the space of four days James authored two of the three most dominating Finals performances in three decades while facing elimination against the defending NBA champions coming off a 73-9 season.
For all of the debate about where James does or will stand among the greatest players in NBA history there can’t be any argument about what he’s doing right now: He’s playing basketball as well as it’s ever been played, and probably better.
The next debate – whatever happens on Sunday – will be whether James will earn Finals MVP honours, potentially joining West as the only player to have ever been recognized from the losing team. If the Cavs win James is a lock.
"I’m just out there playing, just reading, reacting," he said. "My teammates, like I said, have put me in position to be successful either when I have the ball or don’t have the ball, they give me the ball wherever I would like it. Setting great screens and trying to put pressure on their defence. I’ve been fortunate enough to see the ball go through the hoop the last couple of games. So, you know, I feel pretty good."
It’s the kind of understatement that comes easily when you know, deep down, that you can’t be stopped.
During a 13-minute stretch in Game 6 straddling the third and fourth quarters, James scored or assisted on 27 straight Cavaliers points, including 18 straight himself. The Warriors were trying to chip away at what had been a 20-point lead after the first quarter and when Klay Thompson scored eight quick points in the final two minutes of the third quarter it was suddenly a nine-point game.
James refused to be subbed out and helped keep the game under control.
Like everyone watching, Cavs guard Kyrie Irving could only observe in wonder.
"Special, very special," he said when asked about the way James took the game over. "You try not to sit back and watch because you’re trying to make sure that you create space for him and able to give him outlets when he needs it, but I mean, when a guy’s got it going like that, I mean, it’s just unbelievable to be a part of.
"That fourth quarter was unbelievable," said Irving. "When he’s playing in between like that mid-range, and outside, and driving to the rim, and also creating opportunities for all of us, it makes the game a lot easier. And then we’re getting out in transition, I mean, it’s just unbelievable to be a part of."
And we’re all part of it. Like the miles high mural of James in a Christ-like pose outside Quicken Loans Arena used to say: "We’re all witnesses." After what he’s done in Games 5 and 6 to help Cleveland to a Game 7 that no one would have predicted even a few days ago, there’s no limit to what we could see next.
James may have a hard time handling his boys in shooting contests these days, but when their dad is playing like he has been lately, no one in the world can handle him.
LeBron James of the Cavaliers looks to block the shot of Warriors guard Stephen Curry during Game 6 of the NBA Finals on Thursday. (Ron Schwane/AP)
MICHAEL GRANGE
JUNE 17, 2016, 9:31 PM
SAN FRANCISCO – On the night before the greatest game of his playoff career – and one of the greatest of anyone’s career –LeBron James was shooting hoops with his sons, LeBron Jr., 11, and Bryce, who just turned nine.
It was not going well.
"I actually had a competitive shooting game with my sons," James said. "You know, we were shooting baskets last night between myself and my two boys, which ended up not going so well for me at times. You know, those guys have home-court advantage over me."
In another set of circumstances the anecdote would be a perfect set up, like: James can’t even win against his kids in June!
Or: Even James’ kids know the old man can’t shoot!
The issues are related. James’ struggles shooting the ball have been his Achilles heel the past two seasons and it’s been magnified this time of the year when the spotlight shines brightest and never more than against theGolden State Warriors. It’s a flaw that has allowed opponents to at least believe the force he plays with can be blunted. The Warriors’ posse of long, agile defenders held James – who shot a remarkable 55 per cent from the field and 39 per cent from three in his last two seasons with the Miami Heat – to just 41 per cent from the field and 27 per cent from three over a 10-game game stretch dating back to Game 1 of the 2015 NBA Finals. Not surprisingly theCleveland Cavaliers went 2-8 against the Warriors including losing seven straight.
The Warriors seemed to have identified and exploited James’ fatal flaw and it lent the air of statistical legitimacy to arguments that James’ best days were behind him and the Warriors’ sweet-shootingStephen Curry was the NBA’s best player, not him.
The King was no more.
James entered the Finals in a tough spot. One hand this is his seventh time playing for a championship in his 13-year career and his sixth straight Finals, a feat of consistent brilliance no one has achieved in the NBA since the 1960s-era Celtics dynasty when the NBA was an eight-team league with no salary caps or free agency.
For that alone he should be celebrated.
But weighing against James is that he’s 2-4 in Finals and when the Cavaliers fell behind against the Warriors 2-0 and 3-1 it looked very much like he was going to be 2-5 – no team in NBA history has ever won a championship while being down two games.
So even the great Jerry West was coming to James’ defence. Well, of course he would: West went 1-8 in Finals in his career with the Los Angeles Lakers.
“With him, the negativity that surrounds him, honestly, to me, I think is so unjust and so unfair,” West told reporters earlier in the series. “Take him off of the team and see how these teams do. That’s all you have to do. Take him off. And it frustrates the heck out of me when I see some of these players who play this game at an enormously high level get criticized because their teams quote, ‘Can’t win the big one.’ The damn guy gets his teams there every year. He wins."
James is being compared with the likes of Magic Johnson (5-3), Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (6-4) and – of course – Michael Jordan, who went a perfect 6-0 in the Finals with six MVPs, a gold standard that may never be reached again.
But just when the jury was gathering yet another bit of damming evidence about James falling short he comes through with a pair of consecutive masterpieces nearly unmatched in Finals history. He’s propelled the Cavaliers into Game 7, a first for a team that started 0-2 and the first time in 50 years for a team that started the Finals 1-3.
His Game 5 performance on the road, facing elimination at Oracle Arena where the Warriors had lost just three times this season was already one for the ages – according to Basketball-Reference no one put up 41 points, 16 rebounds, seven assists, three blocks and three steals in a Finals game since data was available to search beginning in 1983-84. The stats database mashes up box scores from as far back 1983-84 and expresses the numbers with a weighted catch-all measurement they call GameScore. In Game 5 James’ GameScore was 39.2, the second highest in 32 years.
And then James played better in Game 6. His line of 41 points (again!); eight rebounds and 11 assists with four steals and three blocks translated into a GameScore of 42.5, the best ever recorded.
In the space of four days James authored two of the three most dominating Finals performances in three decades while facing elimination against the defending NBA champions coming off a 73-9 season.
For all of the debate about where James does or will stand among the greatest players in NBA history there can’t be any argument about what he’s doing right now: He’s playing basketball as well as it’s ever been played, and probably better.
The next debate – whatever happens on Sunday – will be whether James will earn Finals MVP honours, potentially joining West as the only player to have ever been recognized from the losing team. If the Cavs win James is a lock.
"I’m just out there playing, just reading, reacting," he said. "My teammates, like I said, have put me in position to be successful either when I have the ball or don’t have the ball, they give me the ball wherever I would like it. Setting great screens and trying to put pressure on their defence. I’ve been fortunate enough to see the ball go through the hoop the last couple of games. So, you know, I feel pretty good."
It’s the kind of understatement that comes easily when you know, deep down, that you can’t be stopped.
During a 13-minute stretch in Game 6 straddling the third and fourth quarters, James scored or assisted on 27 straight Cavaliers points, including 18 straight himself. The Warriors were trying to chip away at what had been a 20-point lead after the first quarter and when Klay Thompson scored eight quick points in the final two minutes of the third quarter it was suddenly a nine-point game.
James refused to be subbed out and helped keep the game under control.
Like everyone watching, Cavs guard Kyrie Irving could only observe in wonder.
"Special, very special," he said when asked about the way James took the game over. "You try not to sit back and watch because you’re trying to make sure that you create space for him and able to give him outlets when he needs it, but I mean, when a guy’s got it going like that, I mean, it’s just unbelievable to be a part of.
"That fourth quarter was unbelievable," said Irving. "When he’s playing in between like that mid-range, and outside, and driving to the rim, and also creating opportunities for all of us, it makes the game a lot easier. And then we’re getting out in transition, I mean, it’s just unbelievable to be a part of."
And we’re all part of it. Like the miles high mural of James in a Christ-like pose outside Quicken Loans Arena used to say: "We’re all witnesses." After what he’s done in Games 5 and 6 to help Cleveland to a Game 7 that no one would have predicted even a few days ago, there’s no limit to what we could see next.
James may have a hard time handling his boys in shooting contests these days, but when their dad is playing like he has been lately, no one in the world can handle him.
If Bron goes Bron, shit will be ugly. Iggy's back being fucked up his HUGE. It couldn't have happened at a worse time for GS.
If Iggy is really hurt and with no Bogut, it's going to take a full team effort by the Warriors to win because the Cavs are going to get easy buckets.. Kyrie and Lebron know they can't be defended by this team now.
It also depends on how the refs call the game. If they continue to call it tight, that also puts the warriors behind the 8 ball.
But you never know with the Warriors..they're missing a lot of shots and theyre a streaky shooting team... role players typically play better at home..but it's also a game 7... role players, even at home, tend to shrink up at times like this.
I really think this will come down to how the game starts... if Curry comes out hitting big shots early (or Klay) it will loosen everyone up... if the Cavs come out early and get ahead.. the Warriors might really start to believe that the Cavs are the better team..
I think Kevin Love having an impact on game 7 is almost impossible. To have an impact on the game it means Love has to play heavy minutes.
The most important key to the Game is Harrison Barnes. He has missed his last 25 shots. The last two games Love got in quick fouls trouble which Jefferson had to play heavy minutes. He was pretty good defensively on Barnes.
Playing Love means that he would have to guard Barnes. Barnes in game 5 and 6 got some easy looks when love was guarding him that he just missed. In game 7 those shots may start to go down.
Do you risk that happening by playing Love heavy minutes? 12 to 15 from Barnes would very huge. Tough decision for Lue
MO does not look to pass the ball so I would not risk that
It would be fucked if Barnes goes for 30
You just never know with the Warriors man. They're a team full of streaky ass shooters.
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