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June 1, 2017 Page 3 mond Green that may have lost his team the entire series. This time around, there are no injuries and no excuses for a storyline that is set in stone. The Warriors have brought (arguably) the greatest team that this league has ever seen to match up against (arguably) the greatest player that this league has ever seen. To add yet another another wrinkle, Brown, a former coach of the Cavaliers and of LeBron’s, will now be in charge of Golden State as Steve Kerr continues to nurse a nagging back injury. Brown was fired from the Cavaliers not once, but twice (likely because LeBron wanted him gone). The former Cavaliers head coach is still receiving paychecks from his old team and would love nothing more than to eliminate them from the playoffs all while being paid by the Cavaliers to do it. Now, an 82-game regular season has concluded, leaving basketball fans with only one question remaining. Which is better, a team full of great players or the team with the best player? Beginning this week, NBA fans will finally have something that is intriguing to watch once again when two superteams battle it out with legacies and legend all on the line. One franchise will call itself champion of what has now become a two-team league. The other will be thrust into basic irrelevance with the other 28 franchises of an otherwise dull and unvaried NBA. Asixlion@earthlink.net • CERTIFIED BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL (B&P) ADS SIX MONTHS – $450 • ONE YEAR – $800 We will create your B&P ad for you, at no additional cost. For information or rates, call 310-529-3227. Interested parties email: bp@heraldpublications.com PICK YOUR NEWSPAPER! All Six (or Pick And Choose) For One Price! Herald Publications newspapers: El Segundo Herald, Hawthorne Press Tribune, Inglewood Daily News, Lawndale Tribune, Manhattan Beach Sun and Torrance Tribune. We take Visa and MasterCard. Please always include your phone number with your submission. Payment must be received before ad is published. By Adam Serrao A long and boring NBA regular season and playoff schedule has finally culminated with the matchup that basketball fans have been anticipating since the Finals ended one year ago. That’s when LeBron James brought home the first championship trophy ever for the Cleveland Cavaliers. Now, LeBron will be arriving to play in his seventh straight NBA Finals as the Cavaliers return for the third time in a row. James’ opponent is back and recharged too. The Golden State Warriors bring their fully loaded arsenal of offensive weapons back for an encore to the encore-only this time, they’re even more loaded with the second best player in the league on their side as well. All eyes are on the NBA’s biggest star as the Finals begin this Thursday in Oakland, California at Oracle Arena, the home of the Warriors. LeBron James and the Cavaliers have “flipped the switch”--and after a horrific second half of the regular season, they have turned things up a notch to once against destroy the rest of the Eastern Conference in the playoffs thus far. Now, all talk of LeBron being as good as Michael Jordan and all talk of the Eastern Conference being an inferior conference gets tossed out of the window. In the NBA Finals, no one cares about Jordan or the Eastern Conference anymore. James has a maximum of seven games to beat the Warriors and once again prove that he is one of the greatest NBA players in the history of the sport. One of LeBron’s biggest criticisms throughout his career has been that he has continuously joined forces with other elite players to create “superteams” and, in doing so, has accumulated wins because of all of the talent with which he has teamed. Well, Kevin Durant thought to himself, “If LeBron can do it, why can’t I?” Now the Warriors, When Superteams Meet who were already one of the best teams in the league without him, get to add the second best player in the league to try to bring back the Larry O’Brien trophy to Oakland and bring King James’ reign to an end. All of the pressure seems to be on Durant’s and Golden State’s shoulders. If the Warriors can’t beat Cleveland for the second year in a row, this time with the addition of Durant, then the argument for James as the greatest player ever will basically be set in stone. At the age of 32, LeBron is playing the most efficient basketball of his entire career. The superstar is scoring more points, getting to the free throw line more often, committing fewer turnovers, averaging more assists and playing better defense than he has ever played in his time in the NBA. All of this has come while James has lackadaisically frolicked through a regular season and Eastern Conference playoff schedule, seemingly adding just enough energy necessary to get the job done. James is a beast. There’s no doubting that. He’s Gulliver on the island of Lilliput playing basketball against the Lilliputians. Now, however, LeBron will run up against his greatest challenger ever and face off against the juggernaut that is Golden State. Both Tyronn Lue of the Cavs and a duo including Mike Brown and Steve Kerr of the Warriors will certainly be looking for ways to expose their opposition leading up to and throughout the seven-game series. For the Warriors, it’s pretty easy. Stop LeBron James and you stop the Cavaliers. Sure, players like Kyrie Irving and Kevin Love have shown the ability to have good games and carry the team at times in the past. With no LeBron, though, Cleveland’s overall team efficiency plummets like it did in their 111-108 loss to the Celtics almost two weeks ago. That means that a barrage of Durant, Klay Thompson, Andre Iguodala and maybe even Draymond Green will be necessary to bother James enough for Golden State to get the series win. For the Cavs, they’ll have to find a way to expose the Warriors in the paint and on the boards. That means Love and Tristan Thompson will have to outmuscle and outhustle Green, Zaza Pachulia and JaVale McGee down low in order to gain the advantage. On the surface, that doesn’t seem like too hard of a task. The Warriors, though, are an extremely deep team both on the offensive side of the ball and defensively. Golden State finished second in the regular season behind only the San Antonio Spurs, allowing only 104 points per 100 possessions. In the postseason, they have gotten even better, allowing just 101.7 points per 100 possessions. 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