Draymond Green couldn’t score anymore and their fifth starter, Otto Porter, was another reclamation project.
This was a 53-win team that was relying on a shooting guard coming off two potentially career-ending surgeries in Klay Thompson and a small forward making his first deep playoff run after having been labelled a bust in some corners in Wiggins. These weren’t the Warriors that went 73-9 or that had Kevin Durant as the ultimate superstar luxury item. The Warriors needed Curry in a way they never had before. “To me this is his crowning achievement in what's already been an incredible career.” “I'm thrilled for Steph,” said Warriors head coach Steve Kerr, who won his ninth NBA title – five as a player and four as a head coach. The Finals MVP Award is his first and should serve as the ultimate rebuttal for the small minority who felt the need to point out that he’d never won the honour previously as some kind of gap on his resume.
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He finished the series with averages of 31.2 points, 5.7 rebounds, five assists and two steals while hitting 43.7 per cent of his threes, all against a Celtics defence that had been shredding opponents all season and post-season but was helpless against Curry. There was no question of who the Finals MVP would be as Curry was the fulcrum around which everything revolved for the Warriors as they completed their climb back up the NBA mountaintop after two injury-plagued seasons that ended in the draft lotteryĬurry finished Game 6 with 34 points on 12-of-21 shooting and added six rebounds, five assists and four steals in the 103-90 win. Andrew Wiggins, the kid from Thornhill, Ont., who has changed minds and won hearts with the Warriors, helped him put out the lights.
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