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The Cleveland Cavaliers is a '''National Basketball Association (NBA) who has made it to the Play offs, they are playing the Golden State Warriors (Warriors V.S Cavaliers). The Cleveland Cavaliers has 190 points total for every point they earn in each game. Their head coach is “David Blatt”, the Cleveland Cavaliers, also known as the Cavs, is an American professional basketball team based in Cleveland, Ohio, that competes in the National Basketball Association. The team began play in the league in 1970 as an expansion team. The team has won four Central Division championships (1976, 2009, 2010 and 2015) and two Eastern Conference championships (2007 and 2015), and has had 19 total playoff seasons. The team colors are Wine, Gold, Navy, and White. Cavaliers forward→ LeBron James←, who was the first overall pick of the 2003 NBA Draft. In his first stint with the Cavs, he was the 2004 Rookie of the Year, a two-time NBA MVP (2009, 2010), and a six-time NBA All Star, led the team to its first NBA Finals in 2007, and became the team's all-time leading scorer. LeBron James has left from the Miami Heat to the Cleveland Cavaliers. However, the team has also had a number of dubious distinctions, such as former owner Ted Stephens’ tenure, which led the NBA to create a rule regulating the trading of draft picks ("The Stephen Rule"), and a 26-game losing streak in 2010–11, which tied the record for the longest losing streak in major American professional sports. Although the team improved its record to 23–59 the following year, local support for the Cavs eroded which eventually bottomed out that year by averaging only 3,900 fans a game at the cavernous Coliseum which seated more than 20,000. The Golden State Warriors are an American professional basketball team based in Oakland, California. They are a member of the Pacific Division of the Western Conference in the National Basketball Association (NBA). The team was first established in 1946 as the Philadelphia Warriors and was based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It won the championship in the inaugural season of the Basketball Association of America (BAA), the league that would eventually become the NBA after a merger with the National Basketball League (NBL) took place prior to the 1949–50 seasons. In 1962, the franchise relocated to San Francisco, California, and was renamed as the San Francisco Warriors. The Warriors were founded in 1946 as the Philadelphia Warriors, a charter member of the Basketball Association of America. They were owned by Peter A. Tyrrell, who also owned the Philadelphia Rockets of the American Hockey League. The Warriors began the 2013–14 season showing flashes of brilliance and also plenty of lapses. In early December their record was 12–9, as compared to 17–4 the year before. One challenging factor was a tough starting schedule that saw them play 14 of their first 22 games on the road, including 10 games against teams holding playoff spots in the standings. A stream of injuries also held the team back, including injuries to Festus Ezeli (off-season surgical repair to repair the right knee, out for the season), Toney Douglas (left tibia stress reaction, out nearly a month from mid-November to December), and Jermaine O'Neal (right wrist injury and surgery, out from mid-November to early February). Stephen Curry and Harrison Barnes were also out for at least four games before the all-star break, each with minor injuries. Most prominently of all, Iguodala suffered a hamstring pull in late November that kept him out for over a month, during which time the Warriors' performance suffered significantly on both the defensive and offensive ends of the court, and the team posted a losing 5–7 record while revealing a lack of depth on their bench. With Iguodala back in the lineup, the Warriors went on a 10-game winning streak, which included six consecutive wins on a single road trip, tying an NBA record. The winning streak was the longest for the franchise since the 1975 championship year, and just one short of the team record of 11 consecutive wins, set in the 1971–72 season. The Houston Rockets are an American professional basketball team based in Houston, Texas, that competes in the National Basketball Association (NBA). They are members of the Southwest Division of the league's Western Conference. The Rockets play their home games at Toyota Center, located in downtown Houston. The Rockets have won two NBA championships and four Western Conference titles. The team was established in 1967 and played in San Diego, California for four years as the San Diego Rockets, before moving to Houston in 1971. In 1974 the Rockets unveiled their classic uniforms that matched the font of the logo and would be used for the next 21 years. In the 1975 NBA Playoffs they would not only make their first appearance since 1969 in San Diego but also advanced to the second round past the New York Knicks 2 games to 1 and advanced to meet the veteran Boston Celtics, which shut the young Rockets down in 5 games. At that time the Rockets gained popularity in Houston, selling out several home games down the stretch of the regular season as the Rockets battled for a playoff spot and then selling out all of their home playoff games. Their head coach is Kevin McHale. During the 2012 NBA offseason, the Rockets made significant changes to their roster. James Edward Harden, Jr. (born August 26, 1989) is an American professional basketball player who currently plays for the Houston Rockets of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Harden played college basketball for Arizona State, where he was named a consensus All-American and Pac-10 Player of the Year in 2009. Harden was selected with the third overall pick in the 2009 NBA draft by Oklahoma City and became the first player drafted in Oklahoma City Thunder franchise history. The Rockets have developed many rivalries within the Western Conference ever since the team returned there in 1980. Two are interstate rivalries, with the San Antonio Spurs, who moved along with the Rockets after four years with them in the Eastern Conference, and the Dallas Mavericks, introduced that very season. Houston faced both Texas teams thrice, beating the Spurs on all occasions and losing twice to the Mavericks. The Rockets V.S Cavaliers had a big game back in 2014, the Rockets scored 105 and the Cavaliers scored 103. Back in 2013 the Rockets and the Warriors faced in the playoffs as the Cavaliers and the Warriors are now, the Rockets had 123-90 and the Warriors had 115-104. James Harden made 10,000 salaries and made 5,000 total points in all of the Rockets game. The Mavericks faced the Rockets more than 4 times; there were 3 in the playoff/finals and 1 regular game. In the game Mavericks V.S Rockets James Harden says "We got a lot of guys in this locker room that are hungry and want to do whatever it takes to win." The Cavaliers debuted new uniforms as the Rockets did before the start of the 2010–11 NBA season, to coincide with the team returning to the original shades of wine and gold used from 1970 to 1983. The Dallas Mavericks (often referred to as the Mavs) are a professional basketball team based in Dallas, Texas. They are members of the Southwest Division of the Western Conference of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Their head coach is Rick Carlisle. Their city is Dallas, Texas and the team color is Blue, Silver, White, Black, and Navy. The 1981 NBA Draft brought three players who would become vital parts of the team. Mavs may look to build younger roster as Dirk Nowitzki enters Year 18☺.The head coach says: "I love Jefferson. I love the way he plays. He plays with a lot of force. He plays with as much force as anybody on our team, and that's why he's a very valuable guy. The Mavericks gave the Lakers everything they could handle, but in the end the more experienced Lakers prevailed, defeating Dallas in seven games on the way to eventually winning their second consecutive NBA Championship. On January 14, 2000, Ross Perot's group sold the Dallas Mavericks to Internet entrepreneur and season ticket-holder Mark Cuban for $285 million. The Mavericks became only the third team in NBA history (the first since 1977) to lose in the Finals after taking a 2–0 lead. In Game 3, the Mavs held a 13-point lead with under seven minutes remaining but were outscored 22–7 in the momentum-changing 98–96 defeat. After an end to their playoff run in 2006, the Mavericks sought retribution in the new season. The Mavericks then entered the post-season with quite a bit of optimism and an assurance that they could seriously contend for a title. The Mavs entered the 2010–2011 NBA Finals as underdogs, due to Miami's "Big Three" coming together during the course of the 2010–11 NBA Playoffs. The team's two remaining stars, Jason Kidd and Jim Jackson, bickered throughout the season, though neither of them had any trouble establishing his individual stardom. Jackson led the team in scoring with 19.6 ppg, made 121 three-pointers and was the only Mav to start in all 82 games. Kidd became the first Maverick to be elected a starter in the NBA All-Star Game, and finished second in the league in assists and fourth in steals while averaging 16.6 ppg. George McCloud, who averaged 9.6 ppg in his previous year, blew away his career-high scoring average as the Mavs resorted to the outside shot time and again due to their lack of an inside scoring threat. McCloud averaged 18.9 ppg and made 257 three-pointers, equaling the second-highest individual season total in league history. The Mavericks became only the third team in NBA history (the first since 1977) to lose in the Finals after taking a 2–0 lead. In Game 3, the Mavs held a 13-point lead with under seven minutes remaining but were outscored 22–7 in the momentum-changing 98–96 defeat. The Heat's performance in the last seven minutes represented the team's greatest postseason comeback in team history.