all durant has to do is play like he used to. he is the second best player and him and westbrook will make thunder #1 in the west with davis also surging. steph will be yesterday's news

Steph and his brat will be old news when the Thunder are at full strength.

This title shouldn't even count. Avoided the Spurs, Clippers, and a healthy Thunder team in the west and every team they faced had injures What a garbage season

Not even convinced they get past Memphis with Conley. A mess.

Pelicans without Holiday
Grizzlies without Conley and Allen
Houston without Beverley and a less than 100% Howard
Cavaliers without Love and Irving

Not to mention avoiding the Thunder due to no Durant, and the Clippers choking after knocking out the Spurs.

What a joke.

They still won 67 games playing in the west. Let's not disrespect them too much.

They're a good team, doesn't mean they haven't been exceptionally lucky. Every single point guard they've faced has been injured.

still doesnt change the fact that they've been extremely lucky these playoffs. they're like the only healthy team and every team they faced had major injuries. facts

Hmmm sis. They're not lucky because they were ranked no. 1 in their division. They were awarded the chance to play against the playoffs western div. rank no. 8. That's been the way it is. If anything Cavs are lucky they are in eastern division. Lots of teams from the west would've destroyed them.

the west is overrated. yes, they have better teams than the east but lets not act like atl didnt win 60+ games too and both the hawks and the cavs beat the west teams in the regular season. with a healthy kyrie and kevin, lebron still makes it to the finals even in the west.

Oh? We can bash the Warriors, but not the Cavs who came out of the garbage Eastern Conference? We can talk about could've, would've, should've all we want to, such as who knows how the Hawks/Cavs series would have gone had the Hawks been full strength (they weren't).... At the end of the day it doesn't change the fact that Kyrie is out for the rest of the Finals and LeBron as well as the rest of the Cavs choked during OT.


Oh and let's not act like LeBron has never had an easily trip to the finals.

i mean, the timberwolves with "superstar" andrew wiggins with rubio and all these young stars finished last behind the knicks, who were trying to tank and had random street players on their team. also, most of the stars in the league play for western teams so of course they'll have better teams. still aint ****

pls, its not like the cavs were in full force ripping through the eastern conf. kevin was out and kyrie was injured in the first game of the second round. plus, the hawks won 60+ games and were playing like **** before the conf finals. korver and his 3ppg in the playoffs wasnt going to help, and carroll was getting cooked by the king before he was injured. they still had they're 3 best players while cavs lost 2 of they're three best players. lebron has never had an easy trip to the finals.

**** a steph curry and klay thompson. privileged light skin bitches. they both had fathers who played in the nba yet they're the humble "underdogs" and lebron who was raised by a single teen mom is "arrogant" and not an underdog. **** the media. bitch asses.

Look, don't get mad at us because Klay and Steph have full tapelines.

Folks pulling that "unbeatable Western conference" nonsense again. Both the Cavs and the Hawks had winning records against West playoff teams.

Anyone who argues that the Warriors aren't fortunate is delusional. Literally EVERY SINGLE PG they've faced is injured AND they're healthy. They've been the only completely healthy team in the playoffs. They're good, but undoubtedly lucky.

Maybe if Cavs were good and Lebron was smart, he could've gotten an easy two from a drive then Kyrie wouldn't even be in his sickbed languishing in pain of what could've been.

And please, sis. The west are always under pressure of making it to the playoffs. Atlanta and Cleveland having their winning records over them are all due to the western teams scrambling to get into positions trying to avoid GS or Spurs in the playoffs.

Maybe thats why all these "top" players from "top" eastern teams can't be clutch because their season was never in danger.

What does any of this have to do with the Warriors facing a string of backup PGs and being the only healthy team in the playoffs?

And again, miss me with that Western conference BS. Just because the conference is worse overall doesn't mean that the top teams in the East can't compete with the top teams in the West, as they showed during the regular system. The NFC is better than the AFC in the NFL, but that didn't stop the Patriots from winning the title.

Good for the Warriors. But I'm not gonna sit here and act like they weren't extremely lucky that the Pelicans, Grizzlies, Rockets, and Cavaliers all happened to have major injuries.

gyal bye! kyrie was hurt since the second round. he was gutting it out. and the bolded part doesnt even make any damn sense. why would a team deliberately lose in the western conf where a couple of loses can take you from #2 to #6, ask the spurs. if anything, the east, esp the cavs, lost on purpose keep the other experienced, surging teams like the heat and the pacers out of the playoffs. and lebron has made more clutch shots in this playoffs alone than the entire warriors team combined. they have no pressure on them. if they lose or win, no one cares and wont talk about it after a couple of days. if the cavs lose, lebron's legacy will take a hit bc people will try to criticize him for over achieving. the guy took former knicks players to the finals, when melo couldn't even get them to the playoffs, yet they want to criticize him. he remains unbothred.