Cavs Vs. Warriors: Predicting the Sorta Predictable

So, here we are, exactly where we thought we'd be at the start of the season.

Here are some of my predictions for the series.

Game 1 Winner: Like Lebron said, Game 1 is about feeling things out. He's going to use Game 1 to try to gauge just how high he needs to go for them to win the series. Does he need to go Boston series-mode? Or just Raptors series-mode? Either way, don't expect 48minutes of hell from Lebron just yet.

Olympic Basketball: A Preview Part I

So here we are at the quarterfinal round of the Basketball Tournament of the London Olympics. This is the start of the knock out phase so it's "loser-foes-home" time.

The matchups have been finalized so let's take a quick look at what we can expect tonight.

Oh-lympic Basketball: US 98 vs France 71

For about one quarter, Team USA vs France was very much a basketball game. The French matched the intensity, fierceness and athleticism of the American to go down by only 1point, 22-21, in the first quarter. And then, the Americans turned it up another notch.

Kobe Bryant scored 5 straight points in the first 2mins of the second quarter as part of the 11-0 run by the Americans to put them up by 12points, which would be the closest France would get in the next 3quarters.

Oh-lympics: Basketball

Highlights of the exhibition match between Argentina and Team USA.

Thunder Can Take The Heat! (No Need To Get Out Of The Kitchen!)

They had the league's youngest scoring leader. They had a high-scoring, high-flying PG. But when it came to thwarting the Miami Heat, the Oklahoma City Thunder did it with defense.

They held the Heat to a 29%FG after halftime and 38% FG for the entire game. The Heat's Big Three all played reasonably well but it wasn't good enough to derail Durant and Westbrook.

While Durant and Westbrook had their way on offense, Ibaka, Sefolosha and Perkins made life in the paint and around the rim very difficult for the Heat.

The full ESPN story, here.