Curry expects to be fine for Monday’s game

Guard Stephen Curry, who led the Golden State Warriors to their first National Basketball Association title in 40 years and then helped the defending champions get off to a record-setting start this season, has been named the Associated Press 2015 Male Athlete of the Year.

LeBron James played 95 percent of all possible minutes and scored 38 percent of the Cleveland Cavaliers’ points in the 2015 NBA Finals against the Golden State Warriors.

There was an increased intensity at the start of the seventh Christmas Day rematch of the previous season’s finals with fans on edge far more than for most regular season games.

Love missed the Finals and Irving was lost to injury early in that series, leading James to bemoan afterward that the Cavaliers “ran out of talent”.

Golden State centre and Boomers teammate Andrew Bogut didn’t condemn Dellavedova before all but declaring he isn’t a fan of constant quick fouls at the end of games.

“In this case, because of how creative Curry is and how good (fellow guard Klay) Thompson, Draymond Green and the other guys are, it has to be a variety of things”.

Curry’s three-point shooting has young players working to improve their outside shot.

There’s still plenty of speculation regarding Jackson’s relationship with the Warriors given how things ended between the two sides in Oakland and how much success the team has had without him. “Through 48 minutes we followed our defensive game plan and made it tough on them but offensively we were out of rhythm and have to be better”. It’s two championship-level teams. Houston Rockets 88, San Antonio Spurs 84 James Harden fired in 18 of his 20 points in the second half, including key back-to back-triples in final 4.5 minutes, and the host Rockets (16-15) stopped the Spurs’ seven-game winning streak.

“It’s good to practice and get experience in that type of game as well where it’s low-scoring, getting stops, knocking down free throws and executing in the half court”, interim coach Luke Walton said.

“There have been games I’ve been on the bench and just seen him make some threes and stuff like that, take some shots in the paint, double-pump, clutch layups”, Bogut said. They have won eight straight against the Lakers and 12 of the last 13 meetings. Cleveland recorded its third worst shooting performance of a LeBron James team shooting an atrocious 31.6% (30-95) from the field and a woeful 16.7% (5-30) from three-point range.

J.J. Redick had 14 points, and DeAndre Jordan added nine points and 14 rebounds for the Clippers.

“I don’t know if you’ll ever see [Kyrie] Irving and myself go 0-for-11 from the 3 ever again”, said Kevin Love after the game.

“I just needed a little tape adjustment”, Curry said. “When we do, I mean, it’s going to be scary”.