Warriors lament NBA Finals defeat
OAKLAND, Calif. — Draymond Green wants to maintain the momentum from a special season that fell short by competing in the Rio Olympics. Klay Thompson plans to take his mind off basketball and missed chances entirely and go watch brother Trayce play baseball for the Los Angeles Dodgers. Stephen Curry’s toddler daughter, Riley, helped the crestfallen MVP begin to put things in perspective by telling him “It’s OK” to lose.
Not one of Golden State’s All-Star trio plans to watch Game 7 of the NBA Finals again any time soon, if ever.
“No need,” Green said.
While Green is eager to immediately move forward, Thompson was despondent a day later, still at a loss for words to describe how the Warriors became the first team in NBA history to squander a 3-1 Finals lead and miss out on a second straight championship that was there to be had.
“We’ll be there again. You’ve just got to realize how bad it hurts and why winning is so good,” Thompson said. “It was very disappointing just because we know how good we are. We feel like we’re still the best team in the world. We let that slide. It hurts right now. I can’t tell you when the disappointment’s going to fade, but it will.”
The best team in regular-season history with 73 wins, Golden State succumbed to a determined LeBron James and the Cavaliers 93-89 on Sunday night as Cleveland capped a remarkable comeback for the franchise’s first title — doing so with three straight victories, two at typically intimidating Oracle Arena.
