SPORTS
Wednesday, June 1, 2016
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In this June 14, 2015, ile photo, Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry, left, is guarded by Cleveland Cavaliers forward LeBron James
during the second half of Game 5 of basketball’s NBA Finals in Oakland, Calif. James knows there’s no stopping Stephen Curry. The Cav-
aliers, healthier and better built for the NBA Finals than a year ago, feel their best chance to beat the Warriors is to contain the MVP and
sideman Klay Thompson from splashing 3-pointers for four quarters.
Healthy again at last,
MVP Curry chases second title
Brother Klay Thompson and others
carry the Warriors for much of this
postseason run while he worked his
way back.
It’s his time again.
Just as he did after the Warriors
won Game 5 to stave off elimination,
Curry chanted through Oracle Arena,
“We ain’t going home!” as Golden
State became just the 10th team to
rally from a 3-1 deicit to win a post-
season series with Monday night’s
96-88 Game 7 victory.
Curry and his teammates earned a
day off Tuesday before preparations
begin in earnest Wednesday for
a Finals rematch against LeBron
James and the Cleveland Cavaliers,
who lost last season’s title to Golden
State in six games. Game 1 is
Thursday night at Oracle Arena.
For Curry, there’s just one more
step to take to cap a remarkable,
record-setting season.
The 28-year-old global superstar
was the irst unanimous MVP
award in league history, while also
becoming the irst player not only
to make 300 3-pointers in a season
but also 400 — he inished with 402
— before a series of injuries slowed
him when it mattered most.
There was the injured ankle in
the irst-round Houston series, then
he returned only to slip on a wet
By JANIE MCCAULEY
AP Sports Writer
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Fresh
charcoal gray NBA Finals cap on
backward and wearing a wide grin,
Stephen Curry summed up his wild,
up-and-down postseason so far and
reminded everybody he’s not close
to done.
The MVP’s got his groove back,
all right — looking healthy again at
last after dealing with a troublesome
ankle, right knee sprain that sidelined
him and even a puffy elbow from an
awkward dive into the stands.
“Now we’re four wins away
from our goal, and that’s a pretty
special accomplishment,” Curry said
Monday night after his Golden State
Warriors wrapped up the Western
Conference inals by beating the
Oklahoma City Thunder in Game 7.
Curry is taking the 73-win
Warriors back to the NBA Finals
with a shot at a second straight
championship, his plan from the get
go.
Golden State’s ultimate goal of a
repeat title has been in the works since
Day 1, even if the Warriors’ chances
of digging out of a big hole against
Oklahoma City looked dire just last
week. His body beat up, Curry had
no choice but to watch fellow Splash
spot in Game 4 against the Rockets
and sprained his right knee. He
made a dive into the Oracle Arena
stands against the Thunder and gave
himself a puffy elbow, and for a few
games Curry hardly looked comfort-
able with his typically breezy ball-
handling and shoot-from-anywhere
rhythm.
Until he did again.
His teammates have come to
expect nothing less, even when
Curry’s body is hurting and spec-
ulation swirls about whether he
is playing somewhere around 70
percent. He has learned to block out
the chatter along the way, knowing
that just comes with being the best.
“That’s really one thing that I
admire about him. He’s a person
that’s never going to change for
anybody. He hasn’t changed to try
to prove anything,” said 2015 Finals
MVP Andre Iguodala. “He just
stayed true to himself.”
Curry scored 36 points in the
deciding game while making seven
3-pointers and dishing out eight
assists. He wound up with 32 3s
against the Thunder, the most ever in
a seven-game postseason series.
“I feel joy, for sure,” he said. “This
is an unbelievable accomplishment,
to go back to back to the Finals and
continue this journey. So I’m kind
of just taking in the moment and
enjoying it with my teammates.”
And for anybody still questioning
his toughness, Coach of the Year
Steve Kerr brushes such things aside
with another timely joke: “Because
he looks like he’s 12.”
Perhaps it’s easy to forget
how Curry led the Warriors to an
NBA-record 24-0 start and a record
73-9 inish.
“You have an MVP, two-time,
and what he contributes every single
night and what he means on the loor
for them, you just have to have your
antenna up even more,” Cleveland’s
Kyrie Irving said.
Four more wins, that’s all Curry
cares about right now. However they
come.
“The one thing with Steph is he
understands that with all these acco-
lades, MVPs, commercials, with
all that comes great responsibility
to his team, to the organization, the
fans. He gets that,” Kerr said. “He
understands that if you play poorly,
you’re going to get blamed if you’re
the star. He’s had a rough playoff go
because of the injuries. I think he
inally felt right physically the last
couple games. And this is who he
is. Having a clutch performance in a
Game 7. That’s Steph Curry.”
SEATTLE
(AP)
—
When the Seattle Mariners
offseason makeover was
complete, the expectation
was they would be less
reliant on hitting home runs.
Tell that to the rest of the
league.
After Tuesday’s 16-4
pummeling of San Diego that
featured ive homers — two
by Seth Smith — no team in
baseball has hit more home
runs than the Mariners’ 77.
Seattle scored 13 of its 16
runs with two outs, including
three of the ive home runs.
“Just get on base and see
what the next guy can do and
go from there. It’s nice to
see,” Seattle manager Scott
Servais said. “Our guys are
just having a good at-bat.
You’re not always going to
get hits. It’s not always going
to work out that way but
today a number of times it
certainly did.”
The Mariners are at 30
wins entering the month of
June for the irst time since
2003, and rebounded from an
unexpected weekend sweep
by Minnesota.
Smith led the onslaught,
hitting a three-run home
run in the third inning that
knocked San Diego starter
James Shields from the game
and adding a solo shot in
the ifth. It was his seventh
career multi-homer game and
irst since he was playing for
the Padres in 2014.
But he wasn’t alone. Kyle
Seager had a three-run homer
in the second, Franklin
Gutierrez hit a two-run home
run in the fourth and Adam
Lind added a three-run shot
in the ifth off reliever Luis
Perdomo.
By the time ive innings
were completed, the Mari-
ners had 16 runs and 14 hits.
“We’ve
got
guys
throughout the lineup that can
do it and some guys that have
been doing it all season,”
Smith said. “It’s unique when
it comes together and every-
body is doing it on the same
day, but nothing anyone did
today was surprising.”
Shields (2-7) has been
the subject of trade rumors,
but Tuesday’s performance
won’t impress any suitors.
Shields tied a career-high
with 10 runs allowed and
could not close out innings.
The most damaging was
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