The Cleveland Cavaliers are down 3-1 in the 2017 NBA Finals against the Golden State Warriors and for some reason, that’s an extremely comforting sentence.
After their historic comeback in the 2016 NBA Finals, becoming the first Finals team to come back from down 3-1 to win the series, the Cleveland Cavaliers are confident in their ability to do it again.
When asked about winning in Oakland Game 5 & bringing it back to Cleveland, JR Smith told the crowd, "Ain't nothing we haven't done before."
— Marc J. Spears (@MarcJSpearsESPN) June 10, 2017
While Smith acknowledges the personnel changes each team has made in the Finals make this year different than last year, what Smith hasn’t acknowledged is that their better equipped for a 3-1 comeback this year, as opposed to when it happened last year.