Your Pick - Ralph
Ralph Perez Will the warriors win the 2016-17 NBA Finals? In case you haven't heard, the Warriors blew a 3–1 lead in last year's NBA Finals. LeBron James and Co. shocked the world with a seven-game comeback, triggering a cataclysmic change in the NBA landscape that led to Kevin Durant signing with Golden State this summer. All caught up? Good. Because after another entertaining regular season, the NBA playoffs are back and the league's powers are out for blood. Can Golden State avenge last year's championship collapse? Can LeBron James reach his seventh straight Finals and miraculously propel the Cavs to back-to-back titles? Or will a spoiler emerge from either side—hello, Celtics, Raptors, Rockets and Spurs—and deprive NBA fans of the trilogy they've been banking on for months? It's just too difficult to envision an organization winning 140 combined games over two regular seasons and going home without a championship to show for it....