“And it was like, ‘Wow, we’re actually having a moment of sorrow as a team.’ It’s a great reminder that, first of all, it’s not easy to win a championship”.

In perhaps the biggest game of his career, LeBron James had the game of his life.

“I told my guys before the game: Listen, there is a game to be played, but there’s not many guys, there’s not many teams that get an opportunity to be in the NBA Finals in a Game 7”, James said.

The vote was unanimous, according to NBA Commissioner Adam Silver.

Thompson said after the game he knew it wasn’t a good look to rush off the court without congratulating his Cavaliers rivals, but said the chaotic scenes following the final buzzer made it impossible to reach the Cleveland players as they all rushed towards superstar LeBron James.

“Cleveland, this is for you!”

An additional 598,000 viewers streamed Sunday’s game on WatchESPN. After the Cavs won Game 6, James returned to the team’s practice facility at 6:30 a.m. for a massage.

Game 7 also had a higher rating than all sports programming on either ABC or ESPN in 10 years, which includes NFL playoff games and the College Football championship games.

Said Cavs coach Tyronn Lue: “The biggest thing with LeBron and the reason why I say he deserves it is because of the person that he is”. No fan base deserves this more. “I came back to bring a championship to our city”, said James, who was in tears as he wrapped his arms around the Larry O’Brien Championship Trophy.

“Instead of saying ‘why me, ‘ I said ‘this is what he wants me to do.'” Lebron added, before shouting, “Cleveland!” It hurts, man, that’s all I’m really kind of marinading on right now.

The Cavs have clearly relished the role of underdog.

The dramatic shot capped a three-game sweep for the Cavaliers, the first-ever in NBA Finals history, after they had fallen behind 3-1 in the best-of-seven series. It wasn’t easy what we accomplished, and it’s not an easy pill to swallow what we didn’t accomplish.

James and his relentless, never-count-them-out Cavs pulled off an improbable NBA Finals comeback, and Cleveland is title town again at long last. The team would create a puzzle with 16 pieces, one for each win needed to take the title.

Draymond Green is playing like he can’t imagine losing Game 7.

The game was a huge draw in the hometown markets of the two teams.

He wept during an embrace with Kevin Love, the first teammate he found after the Cavaliers captured Cleveland’s first championship since the 1964 Cleveland Browns. Two years later, he did it.

This marked the first National Basketball Association playoff game decided by five points or fewer since May 11, Golden State’s 125-121 victory over the Portland Trail Blazers in Game 5 of the second round.

“I didn’t play efficient”. These pictures just coming into us, Lebron, the Cavs celebrating their record-breaking victory in Vegas. “We failed at one goal we had, but this whole season isn’t a failure to me”. “There’s just not. And this is my second one, and I’m able to say that I’ve been victorious twice in Game 7”.

Curry, who scored 9 in the first two quarters picked up his third foul with a minute left, putting him in foul trouble for the third straight game. Just like Cleveland did on Sunday night. A proud moment of the past is cemented as the greatest and you’ve stirred the dreams of another major fan base in the city that’s suffered even more than they have.

“And it was like, ‘Wow, we’re actually having a moment of sorrow as a team.’ It’s a great reminder that, first of all, it’s not easy to win a championship”.

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