Golden State Warriors

Steph Curry was named finals MVP as his team won the title just two years after finishing with the league's worst record.

This team are not the most accomplished Warriors roster to have won the title but, after a tough few years, they may be the happiest. A Stephen Curry three halfway through the third quarter gave them a 22-point lead that effectively ended the game and secured Curry the first finals MVP award of a career that will end with his enshrinement in the Hall of Fame. Curry, who scored 34 in the deciding game, was brilliant for most of the series, a slight blip in Game 5 aside. Part of the reason for that slump were injuries to Curry and his long-time teammate Klay Thompson. “It’s crazy, I’m on Cloud 109 right now,” said Thompson, who missed most of the last two-and-a-half years through injury before returning to help his team to victory. The Golden State Warriors headed into TD Garden on Thursday night and beat the Boston Celtics 103-90, to win the 2022 NBA finals. The Celtics, meanwhile, were forced to hope they had one more dramatic comeback in them.

The Golden State Warriors defeated the Boston Celtics 103-90 on Thursday night to claim their fourth NBA championship in the last eight seasons.

"The message was we thanked them for the effort and the growth and everything they allowed us to do coaching-wise this year. The biggest message was 'Learn from this, grow from it, take this experience and see there is another level to get to,'" Udoka said. "This is what it's all about, playing for a championship and what we've been through the last three years," he said on ESPN, which broadcast the game. Golden State went on a 52-25 run to end the first half. at TD Garden in Boston didn't initially look like it would be a surefire win for Golden State. Boston was up 14-2 to start the game. They've won 21 NBA Finals games together, having recently passed Tim Duncan, Tony Parker and Manu Ginobili (19) for the most NBA Finals wins by a trio over the last 30 years.

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Fittingly, every one of the Warriors' players played a part in the Game 6 victory. Green had his best game of the NBA Finals and was all over the court throughout Game 6, coming close to a triple-double with 12 points, 12 rebounds and eight assists as well as two steals and two blocks. Curry led the way though, with 34 points, seven rebounds and seven assists as well as two steals and one block – and it was enough to see him crowned NBA Finals MVP for the first time in his career after the game.

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In addition to his distinction as the Warriors' best matchup defender during the postseason, Wiggins also has been an efficient shot creator on the wing for a team desperately in need of one, and has crashed the boards with authority. But with each successive dribble, Curry widened the area of engagement -- a stutter-step right, a couple of crossovers, all the while he watched Horford's feet. With the Warriors leading 91-81 in another rugged defensive standoff, Curry faced up against Horford with a narrow band of staccato dribbles in a tight spot. When he stepped up on the dais after Game 5, he was a 32-year-old vet still trying to recapture his muscle memory. He scampered around perimeter screens for catch-and-shoot looks; he drove to a pleasant spot for a midrange jumper when the Mavs chased him off the arc; he fanned out to the wing in transition for easy opportunities. "With Luka, it starts with, 'Bother him for as long of the basketball game as you possibly can.'" As Payton made his swift approach to the rim, Brooks caught him from behind, swatting him with a full windup of his right arm, nailing the soaring Warriors guard on the head. When he arrived to the Warriors last season, Payton was the consummate basketball journeyman, one who'd struggled for years to find a home in the NBA. He'd even considered leaving a playing career behind to become a video coordinator. The second had Curry coming off the bench to start each half, which would reduce the length of his time on the bench between playing time. The Warriors endured a two-year hiatus in the NBA wilderness after the departure of Kevin Durant and the extended absence of Klay Thompson due to injury, while Curry dealt with his own spate of maladies. Given the Warriors' pedigree, their return to the top of the NBA isn't a surprise -- but it was improbable. The Warriors had imposed a similar restriction when Thompson returned to action in January after two seasons away from the game.

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The 2021-22 Warriors may go down in history as the worst of the Curry-era title teams. The five-time All-Star missed nearly three years of his career after suffering a torn ACL and an Achilles injury before making his return in January of this year. And while Thompson wasn’t his old dominant self in this series, he still contributed in a major way while averaging 17.0 points per game, third among all Warriors behind Curry and Wiggins. There’s many reasons why this title team feels like the sweetest of all of them. Meanwhile, the Warriors actually finished third in the conference, finishing behind the Memphis Grizzlies and winning just 53 games on the season. The Warriors never looked back as they held Jayson Tatum to just 13 points — two points in the second half — in a series-clinching win.

Steph Curry was at his dominant best for the Warriors, scoring an equal game-high 34 points on the back of six three pointers.

The Golden State Warriors are the 2022 NBA champions after defeating the Boston Celtics 103-90 in game six of the finals. Golden State Warriors crowned NBA champions in six games over Boston Celtics

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"Steph, Klay, Draymond, what they have done in this league and the foundation they have been able to build, you've got to give them a lot of credit," Iguodala said. The sound of popping bottles was distinct, while chants and hollers rang out of the room. "And that's why I said I think this championship hits different. Of the Warriors' trio of Curry, Thompson and Green, Green was the player who was around the organization the most as it went through its turbulent past two years. Curry added: "The conversations about who we were as a team and what we were capable of ... we hear all that, and you carry it all and you try to maintain your purpose, not let it distract you, but you carry that weight. "You watch Game 1, I did not have a bad Game 1, and I had an incredible Game 2," Green said. And Game 5, Game 5 I was pretty solid. "And Game 3 was kind of like, terrible, awful. "This one is definitely different because of the three years of baggage we carried coming out of that Game 6 in 2019," Curry said. "A lot of chatter. "I knew we had a chance to do something special, and here we are. It was the night they lost the championship.

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"I think it was a no-brainer to have the Warriors as the favorite," Pullen added. Caesars Sportsbook reported taking a $10,000 bet on the Warriors to win next year's title from a bettor in Colorado in late May. But for now the Warriors are the favorites and have their core stars under contract.

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The Golden State Warriors have won the 2022 NBA Championship following tonight's 103-90 victory over the Boston Celtics in Game 6 of the NBA Finals at TD ...

They are second quartet, in the last 50 years, to combine for four championships joining Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Michael Cooper, Magic Johnson and Kurt Rambis (1982, 1985, 1987, 1988). 17 17

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Durant is a constant on social media and maybe in the next few days he’ll break his Warriors’ silence. Durant was on two of those teams, won Finals MVP both times and then in the summer of 2019 bailed for Brooklyn in free agency, essentially trading Curry for Kyrie Irving. That unit eventually won this championship because, other than Curry and Wiggins, the Warriors lacked consistency from the rotation. He helped elevate the confidence of Andrew Wiggins, dumped by his former team in Minnesota and mostly dismissed by the basketball world as an underachiever. He took over for Mark Jackson and won a championship, and then again eight years later, all without much experience on the bench prior to this job. He was spooked by his constant mistakes, didn’t even attempt a free throw and wasn’t heard from in the fourth. This is what he learned about himself in the Finals, and there’s no particular shame in falling short. Tatum was not against the Warriors, and was especially exposed in Game 6, when he went out meekly. After a three-year delay caused by injuries and a noticeable defection — more on him later — the Warriors returned to the throne and carried on like they never really left. The Warriors were up 15 at halftime, 22 in the third and 10 entering the fourth. So his story, and the debate, isn’t finished. The Warriors set out to reclaim the title on this journey of redemption and got their just reward.

The Warriors' pandemic-era decline and the uncertainty that once surrounded their biggest stars are enough to make this title a genuine feelgood story.

And they’re still a franchise built for the pleasure and enrichment of early-stage investors in Amazon and Palantir. But somehow, in spite of all that, this Warriors team feels distinct, less straightforwardly unsympathetic than the back-to-back champions of Durant and co. The old belligerence is still there – the elbows, the shoves, the buttocks thrust aggressively across the lane – and the trash talk remains unrivaled, even in victory (there was a typically chesty description of the NBA as “the Warriors invitational” on the victory podium last night), but the effect is now curiously endearing: to see the man doing his thing again after these few years away is like watching an old uncle get mad at the TV remote for not working properly. But what was most striking about this devastating surge was the identity of its orchestrators: not Curry or Thompson but Jordan Poole and Andrew Wiggins, who together put together a sequence of big threes, torrential dunks, and critical blocks to take the game – and the championship – definitively away from the Celtics. These rising Warriors are not only capable but personable, and the effect seems to be rubbing off on the team as a whole. After a Game 5 devoid of a single Curry maximum – a true collector’s item – the maestro’s hands returned to him last night: not for the first time in the NBA finals, and surely not for the last, the game’s second half became its own kind of athletic weather system as a delicate, relentless rain of threes issued from the fingertips of Wardell Stephen Curry II. But Curry has also been deadly in these finals without the ball in hand, lifting his teammates even when he has shot poorly: in Game 5, Curry’s teammates shot 63% from the field when he was on the court v 22% when he was off, continuing a series-long trend. And then there’s Curry, still bouncy after 13 seasons in the NBA, still boyish at 34 – the man with the guard permanently hanging out of his mouth, and the ball perpetually on its way through the net. The Warriors entered their flop era, finishing last in the Western Conference in 2019-20 (with a record of 15-50) and again failing to make the playoffs, despite a marginal regular season improvement, in 2020-21. It’s fitting that a series marked by the unusual volatility of its scoring patterns – Boston’s comeback in the final quarter of Game 1 will live long in the memory – was capped by the longest run in an NBA finals game in 50 years. The likability of these Warriors, resurgent and resplendent once more, is mostly a function of how far they had fallen, how much they suffered, how deeply they – to use Green’s own term of art – “sucked.” But it also says something about the reconstitution of a team that has shown it can get it done with young talent, without needing to rely on the mercenary brilliance of an off-the-shelf superstar like Durant. The team that had made Oakland its home turned its back on the “bad” side of the Bay and ran headlong into the puffer-vested embrace of the San Francisco tech elite. The Warriors – data-driven, unemotional, technocratic, bombing their opponents from beyond the three-point line, and drawn into an ever-deepening alliance with Silicon Valley – seemed to typify something about the distance that different elements of American society had taken from each other since the turn of the century. The reasons for this near-universal dismissal are not hard to comprehend, since the Warriors over the previous two seasons have had the rare distinction of being both intensely disliked and very bad at basketball. “I didn’t learn anything about myself, I knew I was resilient,” said Draymond Green, on the victory podium at Boston’s TD Garden, when asked to reflect on how his understanding of himself and his teammates had changed over the course of these finals.

Golden State defeating the Boston Celtics to secure yet another NBA title elicits reactions across social media.

🏆— Arike Ogunbowale (@Arike_O) June 17, 2022 Today a new Golden light shines over the NBA world. WELP!— Tyrese Maxey (@TyreseMaxey) June 17, 2022 The Warriors captured their fourth title in eight seasons, the first team to achieve that feat since the Michael Jordan-era Chicago Bulls (1991 to '98), according to ESPN Stats & Information research. Night Night— Stephen Curry (@StephenCurry30) pic.twitter.com/fIMwW4eeSk June 17, 2022 Stephen Curry led Golden State with 34 points, 7 rebounds and 7 assists.

By getting his hands on the Finals MVP trophy, Curry has also added the coveted prize which was missing from his collection of trophies.

Back in Boston, the Warriors had a chance to wrap up the finals — and they did so in their usual style. For many, the absence of the trophy had been a stain on ‘Chef’ Curry’s legacy, but his constant strive for perfection is one step closer to being complete. Now 2-1 down and still on the road, the Warriors had their backs up against the wall, but in the only way they know how, they knocked down the wall and went back home to Oakland with a win. With 26 points and 13 rebounds, the 27-year-old took the Warriors one game away from getting their hands on the NBA Championship following a 104-94 win. Curry added to his 34-points in game one, with 29 points and if the Celtics were to win this series, stopping the 34-year-old sharpshooter would be essential. In their long-awaited return to the Finals, the Celtics got off to the best possible start.

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The Pistons found their centerpiece in the draft one year ago, selecting Cade Cunningham with the No. 1 overall pick. The 2008-09 Coach of the Year has made the playoffs in five of his seven years as the top guy, not to mention countless runs as an assistant. Another year, another Knicks lottery pick and hopes among the team's fanbase of landing a big star in a trade. San Antonio has a young core in place with Dejounte Murray, Keldon Johnson and Devin Vassell. Add in the picks and cap space, and they have a chance to get back to the playoffs in 2022-23. The easiest way to do so is by waiving Danilo Gallinari, who is set to be paid $21.5 million in 2022-23, since only $5 million is guaranteed. Once the pride of the franchise for his development as a fierce competitor in the wake of LeBron James' departure, Sexton has been leapfrogged as a prospect by All-Star Darius Garland and Rookie of the Year runner-up Evan Mobley. It will be fascinating to see what the market will be for him after knee surgery limited him to just 11 games last year. There's an anticipation around the league that Rudy Gobert will get traded this summer, but the Jazz have sent strong signals that they won't settle for anything but a massive haul in return for the perennial All-Star center. The Bulls returned to relevance in 2021-22, making the postseason for the first time in four years behind a career year from DeMar DeRozan. Now comes the hard part: elevating from being merely good to competing for a championship. After returning to the playoffs for the first time since 2018 and giving the Memphis Grizzlies a scare in the opening round, Minnesota has all eight players who saw at least 70 minutes of action in the series under contract for 2022-23. The Clippers are expected to be title contenders with Kawhi Leonard set to return after missing all of last season while rehabbing a torn ACL. A healthy Leonard and Paul George are as good as any duo in the league, but their supporting cast is arguably deeper than ever. Kleiman has more difficult decisions to make regarding the free agency of Tyus Jones and Kyle Anderson, a pair of veterans who have been quality role players, as well as how aggressive to be in the trade market, where the Grizzlies' first-round picks acquired in previous deals could be valuable commodities. Ultimately, though, Boston's loss to the Warriors in the NBA Finals was proof of the growth that's still left for this group to get where it wants to go - namely at the offensive end of the court.

The Warriors defeated the Boston Celtics 103-90 in Game 6 at TD Garden to win the series 4-2.

Let it propel us forward, the experience. “That was part of the message. “I’m so proud of our group,” Curry said.

Steph Curry scored 34 points to win his fourth NBA championship and first Finals MVP award as the Golden State Warriors defeated the Boston Celtics in Game ...

Al Horford, the sole veteran player on a young Celtics roster, showed his class in the third quarter as he scored 12 of his 19 points in the third quarter to go with five rebounds a huge block which got the Boston crowd off their seats. Tatum was sharp at the start of the contest as he scored the final five points in a 14-2 run to begin proceedings with TD Garden going wild. Their players spraying champagne and being swamped in confetti was a far cry from the state of the Warriors just two years prior, when they plummeted to the bottom of the NBA after five straight appearances in the title game. Their job in this series was ultimately made easier by a young Celtics team who struggled to contain the Warriors, who scored 20 points off Boston turnovers and another 21 on 15 offensive rebounds - but the home team got off to a flying start. As for the Celtics, Jaylen Brown led the way as he matched Curry’s 34 points but his partner in crime Jayson Tatum struggled to cap a torrid NBA Finals for the 24-year-old. Curry returned to form in style after a disappointing Game 5 performance to lead the Warriors to a fourth championship in eight years.

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"And it doesn't matter in the sense of like, oh, his legacy is not quite this unless he gets that. Thomas says this era of basketball is defined by James, Curry and Durant when he looks at the last 15 years. But he left no doubt and he carried us, and we're here as champions." "But to add that to your résumé as a competitor, you want that. And with each series win in the playoffs, Curry let his opponents hear him talk. "As [Boston's] Cedric Maxwell said to me the other night, he goes, 'There's 32 NBA Finals [MVPs]. I'm one of them.' "To stamp [his career] with a Finals MVP -- I know he said it don't matter," Draymond Green said. The NBA's most prolific 3-point shooter now has four rings, two league MVPs, two scoring titles, one Finals MVP and an All-Star Game MVP. Me as a player, obviously this Finals MVP stuff and all that, knew [we were] good enough to win three championships before." Curry put himself with legendary company by hitting six 3-pointers on Thursday, three coming in the third quarter. Including that game, Golden State won three straight to win its fourth title in eight years. "Just happy I got to do it."

Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson, and Draymond Green have revived the Warriors' dynasty with their fourth championship in eight years.

“When I say this one hits different ... from 2015 to 2019, it was kind of a steady climb to get into the championship, and whether you won or lost, you kind of just left it all out there,” Curry said. When the Warriors won just 15 games in 2019-20 and weren’t even invited to the bubble, it appeared their window had closed. The minute you doubt them is the minute you’ve made a mistake. I think for us, we all appreciate each other and we understand what each of us bring to the table.” However, when the team’s common goal is to be the face of this era, it always goes back to the brotherhood. Because of the youth injection and availability issues, the Warriors had to navigate a completely different beast. In the same way Curry isn’t fond of ranking his playoff performances, the Warriors still aren’t placing this 2022 championship above the rest. That’s the root of any championship core and the heart of longevity in sports. Perhaps the key ingredients are right in front of us. The Warriors’ big three have grown up right in front of us. But there's only a few of those, and this falls right in line with that.” The Celtics a few times, the Lakers, the Bulls. The Spurs were a little bit more spread out, and they did an amazing job as an organization.”