Cleveland wasn’t able to pull off the upset against the heavily favored Golden State Warriors. Because of the loss, the amazing performance by LeBron James becomes easily forgotten, even though it shouldn’t. He put up one of the best collective Finals performances in history. Game 2 of that Finals might have been the pinnacle.
The Cavaliers just lost a heartbreaker two nights before. Kyrie Irving played a tremendous Game 1 after sitting out large portions of the playoff run due to injury. The Cavaliers had a chance to win at the end of regulation, but LeBron missed a contested jump-shot and Iman Shumpert missed the put-back just as time expired.