Warriors beat Cavaliers 89-83 in NBA Finals rematch

Eight of those points came on four consecutive hoops early in the fourth quarter as the Warriors, who led nearly the entire game, were struggling to keep the Cavaliers at arm’s length.

Since the Warriors won the championship, much of the talk has been how they wouldn’t have won if the Cavs were fully healthy.

The highly anticipated face off of the Cleveland Cavaliers and the Golden State Warriors is slated to occur on Friday (December 25).

Kyrie Irving and Matthew Dellavedova each have seven points for the Cavaliers, who was only 2 of 17 from 3-point range for 11.8-percent.

The Golden State Warriors and the Cleveland Cavaliers meet on Christmas Day – live on SuperSport – for the first time since June at Oracle Arena in Oakland.

Klay Thompson scored 20 points, Stephen Curry added 16 with nine assists and the Warriors remained undefeated at home this season with a 103-85 win over the Utah Jazz on Wednesday night.

According to oddsmakers from oddsmakers at MyBookie.ag, Golden State is favored at home tonight, as the Warriors are getting odds of -7 points against the Cavaliers. The Cleveland Cavaliers head coach disclosed his confidence over the ability of King James “to play and to defend multiple positions”. Kevin Love averages 10.6 points while Timofey Mosgov leads in blocks with 0.8 per game. He also had three rebounds and three assists.

So the greatest National Basketball Association player of this generation, James, knows he can count on playing just about every Christmas.

James shot an air ball from 3 with 12.7 seconds to play to end Cleveland’s comeback attempt. Moreover, Draymond Green had 15 points and six assists to deliver the goods for the Warriors. The Warriors led 45-42 at the half.

The Golden State game is the start of a four-games-in-five-nights road trip for the Cavs, continuing through Portland, Phoenix and Denver. C Timofey Mozgov had zero points on 0-for-5 shooting. Curry, the league’s reigning MVP and the Association’s best shooter, leads the league in scoring (31.2) and has hit more treys than any player again through the first 28 games this season (133 – 49 more than his next-highest competitor, Paul George). 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. So do the Cavaliers, the best team in the East, constantly looking at what the Warriors are doing, comparing themselves to them, already seeing themselves clashing in another NBA Finals series.

Asked to weigh in on Christmas Day games, Warriors interim coach Luke Walton recalled the words of his former coach with the Los Angeles Lakers, Phil Jackson.

First, most of these kids probably don’t have the athleticism of their counterparts, so shooting threes gives them a chance to be successful in the game.