Thursday night’s NBA Draft allowed your favorite pro basketball team to replenish its talent pool in hopes of making a run at the recently crowned world champion Cleveland Cavaliers. Here’s a recap of which players and teams grabbed the headlines at the 2016 NBA Draft.
The Cleveland Cavaliers are NBA Champions for the first time in franchise history and there is no better place to party and celebrate than Las Vegas and that's where the Cavs went after their victory on Sunday night.
Series MVP LeBron James had 27 points, 11 assists and 11 rebounds, and the Cavaliers shocked the Golden State Warriors, 93-89, in Game 7 of the 2016 NBA Finals in Oakland on Sunday night, bringing a major sports championship to Cleveland for the first time in more than 50 years.
In what has been an exhilarating, tension-packed series (somehow despite all the blowouts), the Cavaliers and Warriors are all square at three games apiece. Which means basketball fans are getting that rarest of gifts: an NBA Finals Game 7.