LEBRON JAMES SCORED 33 points as defending NBA champions Cleveland Cavaliers defeated the Indiana Pacers 106-102 late last night giving them a sweep of their first-round playoff series.
The Cavaliers defeated the Pacers 4-0 in their best-of-seven Eastern Conference first-round matchup and will face the winner between the Toronto Raptors and Milwaukee Bucks next.
“Once again, we just had to weather the storm,” said James. “We beat a very good team.”
James sank a 3-pointer to give Cleveland a 103-102 edge, made a steal, then missed another 3-point shot, but Kyrie Irving grabbed the rebound and Kyle Korver was fouled, hitting two free throws to stretch the Cavaliers lead to 105-102.
In the dying seconds, Indiana’s Paul George missed a 3-pointer and James grabbed the rebound. Fouled with one second remaining, he sank a free throw to create the final margin.
In the Western Conference, the Houston Rockets got a huge boost from their bench to defeat the Oklahoma City Thunder 113-109 and seize a 3-1 lead in their first-round playoff series.
Houston won despite an off night from superstar James Harden, who missed seven three-point attempts in a row and shot only 5-of-16 overall from the floor.
Elsewhere in the Eastern Conference, there were wins for the Boston Celtics and Toronto Raptors, and in the Western Conference the Memphis Grizzlies and Utah Jazz earned wins.
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Jasus is there anyone else he wants to ask advice off of. Gavin, Sir Alex… Next thing we will see him and Twink having a good old chinwag lol
Hehe don’t forget Niall Horan, Louis Walsh, Conor Mc Gregor, Eamon Coghlan..
advice from the man in charge of the one-in-a-row Dubs. Invaluable
Ah yeah sure Gavin knows nothing about winning. He’s only won 5 of the 6 competitions the Dubs have competed in since he came on board.
The unbeatable Dublin 2014 team lol!
4 of those 5 competitions mean nothing though, lets be honest
Hows limerick doing flash, LOL!!!
Anti Dublin bandwagon rolls on
Why are articles about him popping up now? Would people not focus on the hurling, it’s right around the corner!
Plus, I honestly don’t think he’s the best manager going.. He has a great team and that’s what’s getting him by in my opinion. Would they not interview McGuinness or Fitzmaurice who made it to and, in Fitzmaurice’s case, won an All Ireland against the odds? I mean I think Fitzmaurice is one of the best lads going!
He has won 3 Leinsters 2 leagues 2 u 21 all Ireland and one senior all Ireland out of 2 contested not bad I’d say and a gent in victory and defeat
I know but I’d say that’s down to the players, not his managerial skills…
Pretty sure I said that above
so by the same logic neither Alex fergessen or Brian Cody are great managers as they too had great players?
Ah the jealous boggers, you gotta love it! I can smell them everywhere!
“He’s a GAA man first and foremost”, what does that mean?
If you have to ask then you’ll never understand
I didn’t realise Taoism was big in Croke Park, but if you can’t answer that’s fine.
Mc Ginley competes in an individual sport, advice from the manager of a team sport would be pretty useful to him. I think Gavin is well qualified to give a little advice.
Jim Gavin could give advice on losing with a winning hand maybe? What would Jim McGuinness do with Dublin’s resources?
park the bus?
Jimmys losing matches!
So, McGinley was basically asking Gavin what he did so as to know what not to do with the Ryder Cup team? In fairness, that’s actually useful information.