The Golden State Warriors are back: For the first time since 2018, the team around the once again strong Steph Curry was crowned champion in the NBA.
The Golden State Warriors have won the NBA championship for the seventh time and ended all of national basketball player Daniel Theis’ dreams of a title.
In the sixth game, the Warriors beat the Boston Celtics 103:90 (54:39) on Friday night (June 17, 2022) and won the finals 4:2. For the team around superstar Stephen Curry, it is the first championship since 2018, but the fourth in the past eight years.
Curry becomes MVP
Curry had the most for the new champion with 34 points and earned the Finals MVP award for the first time in his career. “We found a way to make it”said Curry, 34, in the moment of triumph. “I’m standing here with two trophies and that means a lot.” The Warriors hadn’t even made the playoffs in the past two years.
“I’m so proud of this group. I thank God every day that I get to play this game at the highest level with great people.”Curry said before the award ceremony on US television. “It’s surreal. We’ve been so far away. You end up at the bottom with injuries. It’s just never guaranteed, you don’t know if you’ll ever get back there.”
Kerr, the success coach
You can’t tell the story of the Warriors without addressing the role of the coach. Steve Kerr, 56, has been coaching the club since 2014. The Warriors became champions the following year. The titles followed in 2016, 2017, 2018 – and now also in 2022. .
The Celtics got off to a good start, but then the Warriors turned up the heat
In the once again very loud TD Garden, the Celtics got off to a much better start and pulled away up to 14:2 in the first few minutes, before the Warriors pulled themselves together, slowly reduced the twelve-point deficit and at the end of the quarter was 27:22 lay in front.
By half-time, the guests managed a 21-0 run, which, according to ESPN, had not happened in a final game for 50 years. The Celtics suffered again from the many ball losses in their own attack. It was twelve before the break.
The phase after halftime – it’s that of the Warriors
Despite their best efforts, the young key Celtics players often found no means against the veterans on the other side. Jaylen Brown, Jayson Tatum and Marcus Smart have been boiled over and over again by Curry, Klay Thompson and Draymond Green.
As so often this season, the Warriors were particularly effective immediately after halftime. In the middle of the third quarter, Curry hit his fifth three and increased the lead to 22 points.
Last gasp is not enough
The Celtics braced themselves against the impending defeat, especially Al Horford, the oldest player. He almost single-handedly brought the Celtics to just ten points with 12 points left in the last quarter. The fans believed in a comeback again – but the Celtics always had at least eight points less than the Warriors and could not avert the huge disappointment. A minute before the end, the Celtics took off their stars.
Theis gets nothing
Theis failed to become the second German after Dirk Nowitzki to win the NBA title. The Celtics must continue to share the title of record champions with 17 titles each with the Los Angeles Lakers and continue to wait for the next championship after 2008
Theis had to watch the defeat from the bench again and was no longer called by Celtics coach Ime Udoka. The man from Lower Saxony had only been substituted on in the first two finals games in San Francisco.