Championship Trophy Presentation Ceremony Warriors vs Cavaliers Game 6 2015 NBA Finals

Golden State Warriors vs Cleveland Cavaliers Game 6 2015 NBA Finals Highlights June 16 2015 6 16 2015 Ximo Pietro Pierto HD Live Stream Full Game Highlights Their 40 year NBA championship drought is finally over A half century of misery in Cleveland drags on LeBron James just didn t have enough help For the first time since Gerald Ford was in the White House disco was in vogue and Rick Barry was flicking in free throws under handed the best pro basketball team resides in the Bay Area And these Warriors are a lot like Barry and his old crew fluid balanced together Just like coach Steve Kerr hoped After falling behind by two points early in the third quarter the Warriors took control with Curry the league s MVP and Iguodala who made his first start of the season in Game 4 leading the way quot World champs quot Curry said letting the title sink in quot This is truly special This group is a special group From the time we started the season this is what we envisioned and a lot of hard work goes into it all the way down to the last minute of this game This is what it s all about We re going to remember this for a long time quot Golden State allowed the Cavaliers to creep within eight points in the fourth before unleashing a flurry of 3s to ensure they would be taking the Larry O Brien Trophy back to California Curry s step back made it 78 68 and after the Cavs closed within seven on J R Smith s trey Iguodala Curry and Klay Thompson each drained one in a span of 81 seconds to make it 89 75 Iguodala added another long shot for good measure before he strutted back on defense holding out three fingers on each hand He could have shot an index finger into the air at that point Golden State is No 1 James returned from Miami to deliver a title to his home region but the 30 year old left to do most of the work by himself after All Stars Kyrie Irving and Kevin Love were injured in the postseason came two wins shy of giving Cleveland its first pro sports championship since 1964 They city s three pro teams the Cavs Browns and Indians have gone a combined 144 seasons without one of them winning it all James had 32 points 18 rebounds and nine assists in Game 6 and was dominant during the series showing why he s the world s best player The Warriors were simply the better team James was replaced in the final seconds but before he left the court the four time MVP shook hands with Curry and offered congratulations to Kerr and the rest of the Warriors quot The sacrifice every guy made from Andre and David Lee stepping away from the starting lineup we just played quot Kerr said quot And they were all in it just to win That s all that mattered This is an amazing group of guys quot This series which opened with two overtime games in Oakland flipped when Kerr employed a small lineup in the fourth quarter of Game 3 and the Warriors nearly overcame a 20 point deficit before losing Kerr stuck with revamped lineup in Game 4 giving Iguodala a start switching Green to center and benching the ineffective Andrew Bogut The move was as golden as the Warriors who finished with 83 wins the third highest single season total in history Only the 1995 96 and 1996 97 Bulls won more and Kerr was on both of those teams Cleveland fans did all they could to force a Game 7 They entered the building chanting quot Let s Go Cavs quot and joined Marlana VanHoose for the final stanza of the national anthem a touching moment that showed Cleveland was quot All In quot to take on Golden State The Warriors though were ready Down early after missing open shots they began finding their range Golden State capitalized on nine turnovers in the first quarter made four 3s and built a 13 point lead when Harrison Barnes knocked down a long 3 a shot that sent several dozen gold and blue Warriors fans sitting near their bench into a frenzy This was their night the one they ve waited for 40 years While Golden State had some solid teams in the past the quot Run TMC quot version coached by Don Nelson and featuring Tim Hardaway Chris Mullin and Mitch Richmond among them the franchise has been undermined by dysfunction Along with long playoff gaps there were bad trades poor drafts and numerous coaching changes The Warriors often made headlines for the wrong reasons Remember when Latrell Sprewell choked coach P J Carlesimo Well those days are gone washed away by Curry and Thompson the quot Splash Brothers quot and a roster of selfless players who bonded under Kerr and have returned basketball glory to Oakland These new Warriors have been a model team sharing the ball defending together and sacrificing individual goals more about at Championship Trophy Presentation Ceremony Warriors vs Cavaliers Game 6 2015 NBA Finals