The Cleveland Cavaliers advanced to the NBA Finals by eliminating the Toronto Raptors in Game 6 of the Eastern Conference Finals on Friday night, and the Cavaliers now await the Golden State Warriors or the Oklahoma City Thunder, which holds a 3-2 lead in the Western Conference Finals.
Game 6 of the Warriors-Thunder series is Saturday night in Oklahoma City.
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Here's what you need to know:
Who: Golden State Warriors at Oklahoma City Thunder
What: Game 6, Western Conference Finals (best of seven)
Where: Chesapeake Energy Arena, Oklahoma City
When: Saturday, May 28, 2016
Tipoff: 9 p.m. EDT
TV: TNT
Livestream: TNTdrama
Line: Thunder -2.5
Finals schedule: Cavs vs. Warriors/Thunder
Finals schedule: Cavs vs. Warriors/Thunder
The Cleveland Cavaliers advanced to the NBA Finals by eliminating the Toronto Raptors in Game 6 of the Eastern Conference Finals on Friday night and now await the Golden State Warriors or the Oklahoma City Thunder, which holds a 3-2 lead in the Western Conference Finals.
The Thunder won't say they have to win Game 6 against the Golden State Warriors on Saturday to win the Western Conference finals.
The alternative is less than ideal.
Win at home on Saturday and Oklahoma City will advance to the NBA Finals for the first time since 2012. Lose and the Thunder will be forced to play Game 7 in Oakland. The defending champion Warriors have lost three home games all season.
Thunder coach Billy Donovan said his players don't need to get ahead of themselves worrying about results.
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"We've got to play the 48 minutes tomorrow night," Donovan said Friday. "That's really what it comes down to. You can get caught up in thinking about the future and what the results mean at the end of the game. But the bottom line is the result at the end of the game will happen, and what you don't want to do is be focused on the result and forget to do your job during the course of 48 minutes."
Oklahoma City has done the job at home in the series. The Thunder won Game 3 133-105, tying a franchise record for points scored in a playoff game. The Thunder came back with more of the same in Game 4, a 118-94 blowout that put the defending champion Warriors on the brink of elimination. The Warriors know it's going to take something special to produce a different result at the arena known as Loud City on Saturday.
"It will take all of our IQ, all of our gamesmanship, and just 48 great minutes to get a win down there, considering how the last two games have gone," Warriors guard Stephen Curry said.