THE FIRST QUESTION BEFORE ANY NBA SEASON STARTS IS, WHO WILL BE PLAYING THE WARRIORS IN THE FINALS ?

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Appears the dinosaurs are not extinct in Canada. Finally another team, instead of those Lebron James teams always getting the same results in the finals. Loss after loss!!! Did Michael Jordan ever lose a championship?

Toronto Raptors make their first ever NBA finals appearance. Toronto brings a very exciting team this year versus a very tough opponent in Golden State Warriors who have now made it to the finals five years in a row. Warriors, a dynasty looking to add, so as to be one of the best teams in NBA history. Meanwhile Raptor fever has many Toronto fans wanting Kawhi Leonard to stay long term in their city. Offers of fans buying him a house up North are on the table. It’s Kawhi Leonard who has taken this Raptor team on his shoulders and led them past a tough Milwaukee Bucks team. Golden State has shown their team depth as they have had some big injuries to a few of their players. One of their stars in Kevin Durant. Boogie Cousins, they have played plenty of games without his services. Golden State’s obstacle was the Rockets as always and they took them out easier than the year before. Finished them off without Kevin Durant.

Toronto won both regular season games versus the Warriors in regular season. Kevin Durant has been ruled out of game one of the finals. Will he be able to come back and play any of the games in the finals? Regular season and even without Kevin Durant on the court, does not change anything. The Warriors have not lost a game after Durant got hurt. The Warriors have won a title without Kevin Durant. While the Raptors took a last second shot in a game seven to advance to the conference championship.

THE X-FACTORS

The coach of the Raptors drew up a game plan to make the Bucks star, Giannis Antetokoumpo, look ordinary. Can Nick Nurse come up with a plan to stop or at least contain some of the Warrior fire power?

Warriors have so many players to talk about on their roster. Everyone seems to forget about the Draymond Green. The Dennis Rodman on the team that does the dirty work. Great defense, rebounding and he can score at will as he is playing at a very high level during these playoffs, especially with Kevin Durant MIA.

If the Raptors are going to hang with the Warriors or if they want to win this series, they will need Pascal Siakam to play his best defense. If Kawhi Leonard continues to play at the level he is playing. They need Pascal to take down some of the Warrior firepower to have a chance.

I think this series will be very good. I think the Toronto Raptors are one of the most talented teams the Warriors ever played in the finals. They are better than that Lebron James team that beat the Warriors that one year. I think that year the Warriors’ sudden collapse was their own doing which is why the Cavaliers overtook them. I can see this series going the distance. At the end it will come down to the shot. I like Seth Curry’s shot much better then Kawhi Leonard. I think the Warriors find a way to contain Leonard. But Toronto has a talented roster in depth at all positions like Golden State. Other players chip in for the Raptors to keep the dinosaurs from going extinct early on. Warriors have proved with or without Durant they are a very dangerous team. Toronto can’t count for all. Steve Kerr outcoaches Nick Nurse. All the experience in this type of games go to the Warriors.

WARRIORS IN SEVEN