NBA Playoffs 2018: Golden State Warriors vs. Cleveland Cavaliers Game 1 live stream: Watch online
The Golden State Warriors host the Cleveland Cavaliers on Thursday night for Game 1 of the NBA Finals. Here’s how to watch this game online via live streaming.
For the fourth-straight year, the NBA season crests with a showdown between Cleveland and Golden State. If the Warriors end up triumphant, it’ll mark three titles in four years. If the Cavaliers overcome towering odds, it’ll be LeBron James’ magnum opus.
Both squads fended off their conference rivals and staged comebacks in seven-game sets to get back to the top of the mountain. Now they collide in what hopes to be an epic re-re-rematch.
Like almost every year at this late stage, each team also fights battles against attrition. While there’s still plenty of star power to go around, the statuses of Kevin Love (concussion) and Andre Iguodala (knee) for Game 1 are up in the air. Love isn’t the best fit for this matchup but he helps bridge the talent gap as well as bringing some much-needed offensive output and rebounding. If Iguodala can’t suit up, Golden State will have to amend their plan to slow LeBron. In the past, Iguodala has been the primary LeBron defender and he piggybacked that into winning the 2015 Finals MVP.
Game 1 represents a crucial night. According to WhoWins.com, teams who win the first game of the NBA Finals go on to take the series 70.4 percent of the time. Whoever finds themselves victorious on Thursday will have the odds ever in their favor.
Date: Thu, May 31
Time: 9:00 p.m. ET
Location: Oakland, CA
Venue: ORACLE Arena
TV Info: ABC
Live Stream: Qualified subscribers can watch on ABC Live.
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OddsShark.com lists Golden State as -1000 to win the series and Kevin Durant is the frontrunner for MVP. The Warriors are 12.5 point favorites for Game 1 and the over/under for the opener is 214.5 points.
This series holds the potential to alter or define multiple legacies. It could also be the closing games we see LeBron in a Cavaliers jersey. It’s the matchup many predicted and the one we’ve been waiting for.