The 73-win Warriors entered the Finals as the winningest team in NBA history, while Cleveland carried a 52-year championship drought.
On this day in 2016, Cleveland completed the first 3-1 comeback in NBA Finals history, winning three straight to capture its first championship 🏆
The brown ula fala Roman gave Jacob is the necklace for the Tulāfale (Talking Chiefs) if you didn’t know
The red ula fala are for the High Chiefs of course
Just to make that distinction
#WWERaw
“I'm gonna stop the argument too… No disrespect, I love my son… Patrick Ewing is the greatest Knick I've ever witnessed” - Rick Brunson (Jalen’s dad)
Rick knows ball!
Remastered HD footage of Patrick Ewing so you kids get educated ✌️
Hollywood spent 21 years pretending this didn't happen first.
Michael Jai White headlined Spawn in 1997. A Black actor leading a major comic book movie, two decades before Black Panther made the idea look brand new.
The face in this clip cost him two to four hours of makeup every shoot day. Glued-on bodysuit, yellow contacts that shredded his eyes, a mask that choked his breathing. He credited his martial arts background for surviving days most actors would have walked off.
The film was a New Line gamble. Greenlit around $20M, ballooned past $40M once early effects footage came back, because the producers believed they could match Men in Black's visuals at half the cost. It pulled roughly $88M and got buried by critics on arrival.
Now look at what it opened. Blade arrived in 1998. Luke Cage, Black Panther, the entire run of Black-led comic adaptations followed. Black Panther alone cleared $1.3 billion in 2018.
The movie people file away as a forgotten misfire was the proof of concept for one of the most valuable lanes in modern Hollywood. White carried it there first, under a mask that barely let him breathe.
Sources: Ten-time Pro-Bowl quarterback Russell Wilson is finalizing a deal to become a CBS Sports analyst. Wilson won a Super Bowl, the Walter Payton Man of the Year award and now leaves the NFL to become an analyst on the network’s pregame show that includes James Brown, Nate Burleson and Bill Cowher.
8 years ago, LeBron did one of the funniest things ever.
Warriors fans were saying he only dropped 41 in Game 5 because Draymond was suspended.
So LeBron came back and dropped exactly 41 on Draymond the next game with better efficiency 😭
I think the craziest thing about this entire exchange is Byakuya, before ANY OF US. noticing that Ichigo’s bankai was absolutely a fake or incomplete 😂
We called him crazy, but he knew off rip
Lamar Jackson’s four-touchdown performance against the Texans in the 2023 Divisional Round remains one of my favorites of his.
We all thought the Ravens were finally overcoming that hurdle, but it wasn’t to be. I have a good feeling we may finally get it done this season!
Best player in the world hitting momentum shots in the Finals and emoting, ESPN classic transition music, Mark Jackson's signature sayings. Where'd we go wrong ...
I understand the Kobe Stan in him gave him too much ambition to “settle” for being Bron’s Robin..but man he had it so good. Was known as the closer for a perennial title contender and had no real responsibilities other than doing what he loves to do the most: get iso buckets.