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2016 NBA Finals Game 4

June 11, 2016June 11, 2016 Brandon King

Game 4 was a tale of two halves: in the first half, Cleveland’s defense and rebounding powered them to a five point halftime lead. However, even with that there were some cause for concern if you were Cavs fan, most prominently Thompson and Curry were starting to find their respective rhythms and there was some offensive stagnation derived from iso-ball and a LeBron James who seemed hellbent on passing on as many scoring opportunities as possible. In the in the second half of the Cavaliers defense was mistake prone constantly…

Game 3 2016 NBA Finals: Amazing What Happens When You Put Forth a Little Effort

June 10, 2016June 10, 2016 Brandon King

After not only dropping both games at Oracle, in particularly embarrassing fashion game 2, I wondered how the Cavaliers would respond by returning home for game 3. The Cavaliers took control from the tip off the strength of a dominant first quarter and never looked back. Kyrie Irving finally made his first appearance in the series, he opened up with 16 in the opening quarter en route to a 30 point evening. Lebron James came out in attack mode and finished up with 32 points, 11 rebounds and 6 assists.…

Game 2- Majorly Disappointing

June 6, 2016June 7, 2016 Brandon King

After, getting worked in the fourth quarter of Game 1 of the Finals, it was expected that the Cleveland Cavaliers would come out with a much better effort in what was tantamount to a must win game. That didn’t happened as Golden State lambasted the Cavaliers 110-77. An eight point lead the Warriors took into halftime quickly doubled early into the third quarter. It was around that point in the game Cleveland seemed to mentally check out, giving what I’d generously describe as half-hearted efforts on defense and on the…

NBA Finals Game 1: Our Take

June 3, 2016June 3, 2016 Brandon King

Game 1 of the highly anticipated matchup between the Warriors and the Cavaliers is in the books. The Warriors smacked the Cavaliers 104-89. While the vaunted Golden State backcourt was relatively quiet, going a combined 8-27 for 20 points, 11 from Curry and 9 from Thompson, was their bench that came up big scoring 45 points. Sean Livingston accounted for 20 of them on what seemed to a never ending hail of midrange jumpers. The Cavaliers’ big three of James, Irving and Love went 23-60 for 66 points. J.R. Smith…

Lebron Breaks out Rare Zoom Generation at Finals Practice

June 2, 2016June 2, 2016 Brandon King

Today at Finals practice Lebron went into the way back machine and broke out a pair of Zoom Generations. That in and of itself would be enough to draw the attention of sneaker enthusiast, but these were not the run of mill vintage Generations, rather one of the rarest versions of the shoe, the ROY PE. This special makeup done by Nike to commemorate Lebron’s 2003-04 Rookie-of-the-year campaign, features an all-white upper; the “LBJ23” logo has been turned to read “ROY 0304”. There is also custom “20.5.5” along the medial…

Official images of the Black/Red Air Jordan XII Retro

May 20, 2016May 21, 2016 Brandon King

To say this is an highly anticipated release is a vast understatement and the flames of that anticipation have only been stoked by the release of the official images from Nike. For those who may not know, this Air Jordan XII was originally released way back in 1997. Made famous for being on the feet of one Mr. Micheal Jordan in game 5 of the 1997 NBA Finals, which was known as the “flu game”. Jordan was sick due some bad pizza. Despite the illness, he scored 38 points,including hitting…