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Steph Curry And Warriors Humiliate Cavs In Cleveland, LeBron Tastes Worst Defeat In NBA Career

By Val Powell
Published on: 11:08 PST, Jan 19, 2016

Steph Curry and the Golden State Warriors have lost two of their last three road games, while San Antonio is slowly creeping in as the top dog of the West and the hottest team in the NBA with 11 straight wins.

It was time for the Warriors to re-establish itself as the best team in the league, and that’s what they did against the Eastern Conference top seed Cleveland Cavaliers on Monday night.

In a game filled with emotion, the Cavs were poised to take their revenge on the defending champs, especially after Curry, in an interview on Sunday, said that he hopes the locker rooms at Quicken Loans Arena still smell like champagne.

“Obviously, walking in the locker room, it’ll be good memories,” Curry said. “Hopefully, it still smells a little bit like champagne.”

While Warriors interim coach Luke Walton said that there is nothing wrong with the statement, Cleveland’s main man did not seem to agree.

It appeared James was ready to respond to Curry’s statement, and he allegedly questioned reporters why no one interviewed him after his Monday morning shoot-around.

The report also mentioned that Cleveland players thought that the statement was “disrespectful.”

In light of the recent developments regarding his statement, Steph Curry tried to pacify things by posting the hashtag #readthewholequote on Twitter.

It was the first time Golden State played in Cleveland after winning Game 6 of the NBA Finals in June. The game on Monday night was highly touted to be a close one, just like the Christmas Day clash, in which the Warriors won, 89-83, in Oakland.

However, the NBA Finals rematch failed to meet expectations this time, 132-98, and with Golden State draining their buckets in the first quarter en route to a 12-2 lead, it was apparent that it would be a long, painful night for James and his Cavs.

Steph Curry paved the way for Golden State as he hit three after three, leading to 16 first-quarter points, and giving his team a 34-21 cushion heading to the second quarter.

In the second frame things began to heat up, and in a sequence, LeBron James appeared to shove Steph Curry to the floor, earning him an offensive foul. While the Golden State point guard did have three fouls approaching the half-time break, the Cavaliers failed to capitalize on it.

As a result, the Warriors led by as much as 30 points before halftime, and finished the second frame with a 70-44 advantage. In a tweet, Sports Center noted that it is only the second time that the Cavs have trailed by more than 25 points despite its Big Three (Kyrie Irving, Kevin Love, and James) presence on the court.

While most people probably thought Cleveland would begin the second half much better than how they did in the first, it was still all Golden State.

J.R. Smith, the team’s lone bright spot, draining six out of nine shots, was ejected in the third after he was called for a Flagrant 2. Smith plowed through a Harrison Barnes’ pick, which the refs saw as intentional.

Curry, who finished with 35 points, led another Warriors attack to stretch the lead to 37, 104-67, after three quarters.

During the fourth quarter, Golden State threatened once more to pull away, blowing up the lead to 43, 114-71, which, according to ESPN, is a low point in the four-time MVP’s career.

The statistics pointed out that out of James’s 1,127 games, it was the first time that he tasted a 43-point deficit in his entire career.

Steph Curry and the Warriors (38-4) will next face the Chicago Bulls on Wednesday, while Cleveland (28-11) will try to regain composure as they take on the Nets on the same day.

[Image by Jason Miller, Getty Images]

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