NBA Finals : 10 things you should know

On the night of Thursday to Friday 69. Finals start in NBA history . They play the Cleveland Cavaliers and Golden State Warriors , and the match will be shown live on Canal + Sport . Are the first two things you should know about this year's NBA Finals .

Smoking t-shirts LeBron James from Cleveland and surrounding areas twist of fate meant that in 2003, began his career as a player for the Cleveland Cavaliers. "The son of this land," but he left Cleveland in 2010 before he could get the championship ring there. When announcing its decision, hundreds of people took to the streets of the city. Some of them smoked shirts James. After four years of playing the Miami Heat, after four consecutive visits to the NBA Finals after winning two titles, James before the season 2014/15 he returned to Cleveland. Again, is loved, is loved and again on Thursday will be fought first title in the history of the Cleveland Cavaliers. Whistling in Warriors That's not a typo, actually comes to whistling. In March 2012, a few months after the investor Joe Lacob became the owner of Warriors fans whistled and booed him during a ceremony honoring one of its former players of the club. Fans booed in response to the fact that a few weeks earlier Lacob decided to give back to the Milwaukee Bucks team leading scorer Monta Ellis. In return, the centers acquired Andrew Boguta, whose career due to injury was then on the cusp. Today, the Australian is a key player the Warriors, and the departure of Ellis made the team leader could be Stephen Curry, the most valuable player of the season 2014/15 (MVP). LeBron James is chasing Jordan Michael Jordan has six, and James, only two championship rings. James, however, has a little more time, because Jordan won his fourth title half a year after the age of 33 years old. James in December, just over 31 years. - This is probably the best version of me throughout my career - so before the finals says James about his game, and everywhere there are voices of former basketball players and the current that if you do not look at the number of rings, the current version of James might be a better basketball player than the best version of Jordan. In these playoffs, James include an average of 27.6 points, 10.4 rebounds, 8.3 assists, 1.8 steals and 1.3 block per game. In February, James dominated the Warriors, throwing in victory 111: 99 your best in the season 42 points.

LeBron James isn't the favorite Although James dominates basketball at scoring points, assists and rebounds, then this year's finals resemble the situation from last season. Lonely James fights against the best team in the NBA. Team with a capital "D," for having in its composition more valuable players and playing more collectively, more modern than the team of James. A year ago, James and the Miami Heat lost 1-4 to the San Antonio Spurs, and the two remaining Heat star Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh together won only one more point (29.2) than trafiający as much as 57% of their throws, James (28.2). This year, James also can not count on help from the other two best players of his team, because Kevin Love and Kyrie Irving both are injured. About 95% of experts picks the Warriors win this series. The most common type is emerging 4-2 for the Warriors. Cavaliers are weakened Kyrie Irving, Cavaliers second best scorer, left 2 of the last 3 games of the playoffs. 23-year-old dribbling magician more than a month struggling with the scourge of injury. Irving has trouble with the ankle, knee, hip and shoulder. Until this spring Irving has never played in the playoffs, and now his body can not withstand such a long season. Do not withstand a body - exactly right shoulder - Kevin Love's, who underwent surgery a month ago. Irving and Love were in the regular season authored 37% of the points scored by the Cavaliers. Stephen Curry is the king left corner 27-year-old Stephen Curry turned into a three dunks in the contest. Not only is it efficient but also effective in this as it goes from afar. He can hit pretty regularly throws for three, being even two meters behind the line. Curry needed only 13 games to break the record of customs triples in the history of the NBA playoffs. His 59 hit for three broke the previous record belonging to Reggie Miller. The leader of the Indiana Pacers in the playoffs in 2000 hit 58 threes, but he needed to ... 22 matches, which is as many as nine more than the "baby-faced assassin". Until then, Curry included in these playoffs, an average of 29.2 points, 6.4 assists, 4.9 and 1.9 steals collection. 43.7% also gets three throws. The most interesting statistic of the playoffs? Curry hit 12 of 13 shots for three from the left corner.

LeBron and Curry began in the same place

The two best players in Warriors Curry and Klay Thompson is the son of former NBA basketball players. Curry's father Dell was in the 90s one of the best shooters for three. Earlier in the season 1987-1988 was the player Dell Curry Cleveland Cavaliers. In March 1988, his wife bore him a son. Stephen was born in a hospital in Akron, a small town located 49 km south of Cleveland. It's just Akron, 39 months before Currym, was born James. Curry after the birth of Akron visited only once, James spent his childhood. Both were born in the same city, in the same hospital, but outside the parquet do not stick together, although they are also enemies.

Colleagues from one bench, almost

Interesting story also connects the coaches of both teams. For the first time in NBA history - not counting the first season of 1946/47 - in the Finals will face two trainers-debutants. Steve Kerr Golden State Warriors - former three-time champion with the Chicago Bulls and author of the famous line from the Finals in 1997 - is the only basketball coach his first season. Bostończyk David Blatt coached in Europe for nearly 20 years and has won everything there is to win, before the spring a year ago became the coach of the Cleveland Cavaliers. But before Blatt was offered a job in Cleveland, he was already speaks with Kerr to become his assistant at the Warriors.

Basketball space

It is no longer time-90s. In this year's NBA finals very often we see teams that play on the pitch without the classic middle. And when Andrew Bogut (Warriors) and Russian Timofey brains (Cavaliers) will sit on the bench - and when you sit on it a best rebounder ball in the attack in the NBA Tristan Thompson (Cavaliers) - on the dance floor we can see the so-called "small ball". It was then that LeBron James will be the "center", playing alongside the four players below him Cavaliers. And on the other side of the dance floor ball will be rerouted Draymond Green - "center" Warriors. Low settings Warriors have become absolutely crucial is that Curry and company are the best team in the NBA this season.

Riley Curry is the curse of journalists

Parts American journalists do not like the fact that Curry comes to press conferences with his almost 3-year-old daughter. This sweet creature has become in recent weeks, the heroine of the NBA playoffs. Some journalists complain that little Riley prevents them from asking questions.