LeBron has no Christmas traditions due to road trips

Oklahoma City has won nine of its last ten.

On Wednesday night, the beasts of the East knocked off the Knicks for the third time this season, suffocating the scrappy Knicks down the stretch.

“The buildup was kind of the same as Game 1 of a year ago”, Curry said. Golden State won 103-85. None of that matters when the Wine and Gold gear up for a Finals rematch that will have the eyes of the National Basketball Association world watching. “I was able to get through it. With two days off and a couple of practices”. Curry finished the rally with a 29-foot three-pointer that gave the Warriors a 24-15 lead with 2:15 to play in the quarter. His streak of 101 straight games with a trey is the second-longest streak in National Basketball Association history.

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“It’s Christmas Day and a lot of things”, Love said. Little Ralphie will (almost) shoot his eye out with the Red Ryder carbine-action two-hundred shot range model air rifle.

This Christmas Day matchup was supposed to be the proof of that, since the Cavaliers were healthy.

LeBron James led the Cavaliers (19-8) with 25 points.

Stephen Curry converted a pair of driving hoops in the final 80 seconds, lifting the Golden State Warriors to an 89-83 victory over the Cleveland Cavaliers in a Christmas Day rematch of the NBA Finals. “We’re not going back to the Finals like, ‘Look at this, this is what they did.’ They’ve got 26 games that we can look at from this year”. To his credit, Green backs it up.

The officials let both teams play through contact early and the Warriors led 45-42 at the half.

ABC – and ESPN leading up to it – will hype this meeting like insane and provide tons of great graphics and stats, but in the end this is merely a regular-season game between two great teams. Curry tops in poits with 31.2 and in steals with 2.2 per game. But it’s also fair to ask if the fourth quarter defense will be as good when he’s on the floor closing games. Since his undefeated return, the Cavaliers have held combined foes under 40 percent from the floor. Instead of doing it with 3-pointers, defending champion Golden State maintained its edge over Cleveland by limiting the Cavaliers to 32 percent shooting.

Playing this type of game is fantastic for the Warriors, because this is the way the San Antonio Spurs are going to play them next month.

Not with their unbeaten home record still intact – and certainly not with LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers coming to town. Draymond Green averages 8.8 rebounds and 7.1 assists per game. His teammate, Kevin Love, never got the opportunity to reach the Finals, suffering a season-ending shoulder injury in Game 4 of Cleveland’s First Round sweep of the Celtics.

Butler hit 9-of-20 shots from the field and added 6 rebounds and 4 assists for the Bulls, who had 21 points and 13 rebounds from Spanish big man Pau Gasol as Chicago improved to 16-11.

VIDEO:The Starters: What’s the best game on Christmas? The Heat (16-11), with usual suspects Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh alongside emerging star Hassan Whiteside, will be looking for a get-right game after losing five of their last nine games. Andre Drummond led the Pistons with 25 points and 12 rebounds. And sometimes, especially lately, the Warriors’ offense seems to be a step behind the defense.