{"id":104871,"date":"2017-06-02T04:13:47","date_gmt":"2017-06-02T08:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=104871"},"modified":"2017-06-02T04:13:47","modified_gmt":"2017-06-02T08:13:47","slug":"durant-waxes-hot-as-golden-state-blasts-cleveland-in-game-1-of-nba-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/06\/02\/durant-waxes-hot-as-golden-state-blasts-cleveland-in-game-1-of-nba-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"Durant waxes hot as Golden State blasts Cleveland in Game 1 of NBA finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_104910\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-104910\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Kevin-Durant-Golden-State-Warriors.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-104910\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Kevin-Durant-Golden-State-Warriors.jpg\" alt=\"Kevin Durant (Photo: Golden State Warriors\/Facebook)\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Kevin-Durant-Golden-State-Warriors.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Kevin-Durant-Golden-State-Warriors-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Kevin-Durant-Golden-State-Warriors-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-104910\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kevin Durant (Photo: Golden State Warriors\/Facebook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA, June 2 &#8212; Golden State sizzled in the second half to clobber Cleveland, 113-91, in Game 1 of the NBA Finals at the Oracle Arena in Oakland on Friday (Philippine Time).<\/p>\n<p>The Warriors opened the second half on a 13-0 run, and despite an 8-2 counter rally by the Cavaliers, the Warriors continued on pummeling the Cavs until the end.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Durant dropped 38 points with eight rebounds and the same number of assists without a turnover. Steph Curry added a double-double performance of 26 points and 10 assists with six rebounds and three steals for Golden State, which is now 13-0 in the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>Draymond Green came close to owning his double-double with nine points and 11 rebounds with two assists, two steals and one block.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, Golden State assisted on 31 shots and committed only four turnovers, tying an all-time single-game low in the Finals.<\/p>\n<p>Lebron James led Cleveland with 28 points, 15 rebounds, and eight assists, but he also committed eight of the team&#8217;s 20 turnovers. (PNA\/Ivan Saldajeno)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA, June 2 &#8212; Golden State sizzled in the second half to clobber Cleveland, 113-91, in Game 1 of the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":104910,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","mauthors-ivan-saldejano","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}