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From 2015 through 2018, the Cleveland Cavaliers and Golden State Warriors met four times in the NBA Finals. They also met three times on Christmas, two of those at Oracle Arena out in Oakland, California. It was the greatest rivalry in the NBA at the time, but it still fell short of what it could have been.
As we know, Golden State ultimately won the Finals series 3-1 (but that’s also the series lead they blew in 2016) by winning in 2015, 2017, and 2018. But the one major caveat with those 2017 and 2018 titles is that Kevin Durant was with the Warriors.