An Australian Olympic guard is breaking out in the NBA Finals for a second straight year.
Those who closely watched the London 2012 Games will have known about Matthew Dellavedova long before he scored 20 points in the Cleveland Cavaliers’ win over the Golden State Warriors in Game 3 of the NBA Finals on Tuesday night.
Dellavedova was the Australian men’s basketball team’s youngest player at the London Olympics. At 21, he started next to Patty Mills in the backcourt. Mills, with ties to watching Cathy Freeman, gained plenty of attention with the San Antonio Spurs in the 2014 NBA Finals.