LeBron James came to Cleveland to win a title but Cavaliers are on the ropes after game four loss
The home side lose 108-97 to Golden State to trail 3-1 in the NBA finals as Stephen Curry leads the way for Warriors
LeBron James said game four was another “do-or-die” scenario for the Cleveland Cavaliers.
He can only hope he was wrong. The NBA finals have all but slipped away from James and the Cavaliers, an offensive disaster of a fourth quarter their undoing in what became a 108-97 loss to the Golden State Warriors in game four on Saturday morning (Hong Kong time).
[LeBron’s] a freight train out there ... no matter what you do, he’s going to have a huge stat line and he’s going to impact the game 1,000 different ways
Cleveland now trail the series 3-1, a deficit that no team have ever successfully overcome in the championship round. Game five is Tuesday morning (HK time) in Oakland, where the defending champions Warriors are 50-3 this season. If Cleveland are going to pull off this miracle, they’ll need to win there twice.
Stephen Curry found his long-range touch and scored 38 points, Klay Thompson added 25 and the Warriors rebounded from a big loss by beating the Cleveland Cavaliers 108-97 on Friday night.
Curry had scored just 48 total points in the first three games, but the two-time league MVP made seven three-pointers and Thompson, his Splash Brother, drained four as the Warriors took a 3-1 lead in the series.
So it’s not over. It only seems that way, and James’ all-too-familiar June nightmare is one loss away from being officially complete.
