The Cleveland Cavaliers showed true grit and unfettered passion to win the NBA finals in 2016 against the Golden State Warriors. The Cavaliers won the championship 4-3 and by a margin of 15 points in the last game, game 5. Analysts and the media still discuss those moments. After all the Cavaliers bounced back from the dead score of 3-1 and they were facing one of the mightiest teams in the NBA, whose roster included Stephen Curry and Draymond Green, amonng others.

The game was in the news for several reasons, including the fact that the Warriors seemingly destroyed a 3-1 lead to lose.

Ty Lue reveals the ‘$200 in the locker room’ story

The Cavaliers’ Coach at the time, Tyronn Lue, has revealed what actually happened before Game 5, the turning point of the finals, on a podcast that’s gaining the attention of NBA fans.

He said, “We got down 3-1, and I just felt we could beat them. If we made some adjustments and some tweaks, I just felt that we could beat them. I swear. We got down 3-1, so I called up Bron to the office and I said, ‘Listen, we have to do this, this and this and we can beat them.’ Bron was on board, like, ‘They are getting tired, they are getting worn down.’

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But some things we had to change defensively too, and so, I came into practice before we left for game 5. I was like, ‘Listen if you don’t believe we can win, just stay here. We don’t want you on the bus, we don’t want no negativity. If you don’t feel we can win game 5, just stay home, we’ll see you at game 6.'”

He wrapped up the conversation with an anecdote, “So, we go up to game 5 and we win game 5 and so Kyrie was 41, LeBron has 43, whatever. After the game, everybody was in the locker room. All the coaches, the front office people, the owners, their kids, the training staff. I said to everybody in the locker room, ‘Give me 200 dollars.’ Players and everybody. I am gonna take it and put it in the ceiling and we come back to get our money for Game 7. So, we had to go home and win Game 6 and come back for Game 7.”

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The rest is history for NBA fans.

All about the NBA 2016 Finals

Even though the Golden State Warriors gave a sound drubbing to the Cavaliers, beating them by more than 20 points in the first two games, the Cleveland Cavaliers bounced back with a stunning score of 120-90 in game 3, with LeBron James on their side.

In the fourth game, the Warriors once again ruled the court with a score of 108 against the Cavalier’s 97, only to have the Cavaliers win the fifth game by 15 points. The Cavaliers went on to win both the sixth and the seventh games with 115 and 93 points.

The 2016 game was also notorious because of the kick that Draymond Green gave to Steven Adams of the Cavaliers, something that NBA analysts have discussed through the years.

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