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The Dubs Get The Ultimate W, As Draymond Quietly Delivers

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The 2015 NBA Finals will long be remembered as a plot-twist-laden journey at the end of a paradoxical playoff season. On one hand, this playoff season and NBA Finals series ended the way most expected — the team with the best record won, the team with LeBron James was there at the end to make […]

Iguodala’s Offense Rescues Golden State In Game 5

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One of the great and lasting truths of sports — any sport — is that imperfection is part of the equation. Imperfect human beings contest championships and tournaments, so the notion of a flawless game is essentially a mirage. (LeBron James, of course, comes very close to meeting that standard, but that’s another conversation for […]

LISTEN: John Cannon On Game 5 Of The NBA Finals

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Saturday night, Crossover Chronicles staff writer John Cannon joined Fox Sports Radio host Arnie Spanier for a segment on the NBA Finals before Game 5 tonight. John offers thought-provoking insights on Steve Kerr, the Cleveland Cavaliers’ best path to the title, and the overall issue of fatigue at this point in the Finals. Through our […]

Game 5 of a 2-2 Finals: The NBA’s Greatest Hits Through The Years

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Best-of-seven becomes best-of-three for the NBA championship this Sunday evening in Oakland. The preliminaries are over: The Golden State Warriors and Cleveland Cavaliers have probed, prodded and tested each other in four games and two cities. They’ve absorbed each other’s punches, though the Cavs have clearly thrown and landed many more of them. Now comes […]

The 2015 NBA Finals And The Rollercoaster Of Opinion

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It could be that the volatile nature of both public and media opinion on the 2015 NBA Finals is a product of modernity, and more specifically, of the relentless nature of the sports-media news cycle. Each new year, it seems that the pressure to say something strong — and preferably before anyone else says it […]

Warrior Chess: The True Genius Of Steve Kerr’s Game 4 Move

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The psychology of sports can so easily be overrated and overestimated, leading to simplistic conclusions that wind up being very unfair to coaches and players alike. Kobe Bryant suffered through a terrible Game 7 of the 2010 NBA Finals, but Pau Gasol and other Los Angeles Laker teammates bailed him out against the Boston Celtics. […]

NBA Finals: This Is Not The Memphis Series For Golden State

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As the 2015 NBA Finals become a best-of-three series and move back to Oakland this upcoming Sunday, basketball lovers — who have not been treated to a particularly well-played series, but certainly an endlessly intriguing one — have so many questions to ponder. The next few days leading up to Game 5 will be crammed […]

It’s Not Easy Being Green… Or Barnes: Golden State’s Keys In Game 4

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The Cleveland Cavaliers’ convincing performance in the 2015 NBA Finals is the latest manifestation of a very old story in sports: One team might be really great when playing at its best, but what if the team on the other bench is supremely skilled at preventing opponents from playing their best? Especially when Kyrie Irving […]

The 2015 NBA Finals Feel A Lot Like 2011… But Not For LeBron

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Here’s the tricky thing about comparisons: You have to explain the nature of the comparison; you can’t just drop the comparison on the floor and expect everyone to get it without offering additional details. With that in mind, the 2015 NBA Finals between the Golden State Warriors and the Cleveland Cavaliers are a lot like […]

LeBron As Coach: The Cavs Are Up 2-1 Because Of It, But Few Understand It

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It was one of those moments when talk radio and the internet blow up. Remember when David Blatt imitating LeBron James’s play signals was a thing? Remember when that story hit the airwaves just over two months ago, and Blatt became a pinata — again — for the masses? Make no mistake — the optics […]

The 1994 and 1995 Rockets: The Glue And Heart Of Houston

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Texas is, of course, football country. Houstonians desperately hoped to see their Oilers (Luv Ya Blue!) beat the Pittsburgh Steelers in the late 1970s and make their way to the Super Bowl with coach Bum Phillips and star running back (and University of Texas product) Earl Campbell. The city would surely rejoice in any pro […]

James Jones and David Blatt Quietly Help the Cavs

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Sunday, I wrote here at Crossover Chronicles that the Cleveland Cavaliers’ presence in the 2015 NBA Finals magnified the job Erik Spoelstra did with the Miami Heat. The basic reasoning behind that claim is simple and hard to refute: Spoelstra did not get the fully mature LeBron James Blatt has in Cleveland. As Cavs general […]

The Cavs’ Journey To The Finals Magnifies Erik Spoelstra

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It’s been one of the red-meat notions of the 2015 NBA season: LeBron James is the real head coach of the Cleveland Cavaliers. NBA Twitter and the NBA blogosphere lit up when the story emerged in early April that LeBron signaled the plays on the floor for the Cavs, and head coach David Blatt repeated […]

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