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In a joint Instagram post Wednesday between James, Smith, Thompson and Frye, the caption read: "The group chat finally linked up." Another joint post between Jefferson, Love, Thompson and Frye included a video of Thompson delivering drinks to the group on the course, captioned: "We all have roles."
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So at the time, there was no player more feared than Curry. And unfortunately for the Cavs, no player on their roster was less equipped to defend him one-on-one than Love. He actually doesn't remember how he managed to stay in front of the Warriors' superstar; it only matters that he did. "I tell people all the time, one, I blacked out," Love said in a talk with his fellow 2016 champion, Richard Jefferson. "You know how many times we actually went over this play? We were switching one through five. Here comes the pin-down action. Switch over on Draymond. Switch on Steph. Then watch. Steph gives up the ball. I'm supposed to deny," he added.
Ian Begley: “(If you could) go into a lab and create…the physical profile you need to have a chance against him, it probably would look a lot like OG Anunoby.” On NBA Finals on ABC conference call, analysts Tim Legler and Richard Jefferson were asked about OG Anunoby potentially defending Victor Wembanyama. Legler and Jefferson's full thoughts on Anunoby defending Wembayama: Legler: “Just looking at Wemby all year and sort of the evolution of his career…if you could have a physical profile that you would go into a lab and create and say, this is sort of the physical profile you need to have a chance against him, it probably would look a lot like OG Anunoby. A guy that has enough size and length - it can't be in that 6-4, 6-5 range; (it’s) got to be bigger than that – lateral mobility for a bigger guy and then the physical strength to be able to get into Wemby and sort of move him around the best that you can. None of this stuff is easy; it's a very complicated thing, and it's a team thing.
Richard Jefferson: Start, bench, cut. LA basketball royalty. Kobe Bryant, Magic Johnson, LeBron James. DeMar DeRozan: LA Lakers basketball? Jefferson: Yeah, LA. Yeah. DeRozan: Start Magic, bench Kobe, cut LeBron. Jefferson: Yeah, that's fair. LeBron's been here for like 12 years. We don't need to make it a thing.
Mike Vorkunov: Donovan Mitchell says he is fine and healthy. Kenny Atkinson had said he was working through something. Richard Jefferson and Tim Legler said during the game they felt he didn't have his usual explosiveness. He disagrees. "I'm great," he said with a smirk. "I'm great. I'm great"
Richard Jefferson: Do you feel like you've improved that you've like learned something? What do you feel like that? Jalen Williams: I was so excited to like work out all year and like you play in the finals, so you're like now I know exactly what I need to do to get better at and it's like a very cut and dry experience that was just kind of negated by my hand. And then I had a second surgery mid-season to like fix it and clean up some of the stuff like my screw was coming loose which is natural. So that sucked. That part was not fun. But it was also fun to figure out how I can make these like reps that I was doing as game-like as possible with my left hand during the summer. So that was a fun part of it. My friends got to be a part of like my workouts and stuff where I'm like running. I was in really good shape. Like my first game back I wasn't tired. It's crazy how much your body adapts to like something so major being out for so long.
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Former Cleveland Cavaliers teammates J.R. Smith and Richard Jefferson reunited Thursday, but not on the basketball court. The duo, who won an NBA Championship with the Cavs in 2016, appeared on the HBO Max series “Hacks.” In season 5, episode 5 of the Emmy-winning comedy, Smith and Jefferson play themselves, competing in a fictionalized celebrity edition of “The Amazing Race.”
In their only lines in the episode, Smith and Jefferson tell “Amazing Race” host Phil Keoghan that they’re competing on behalf of the United Negro College Fund, which supports historically Black colleges and universities across the country. In real life, Smith is set to graduate this month from North Carolina A&T State University, an HBCU in Greensboro.
Richard Jefferson: Who is the guard that when you get the opportunity, is it Luka? Is it a Steph? Is it Cade? Who is it? Evan Mobley: Definitely Kevin Durant. I like the challenge of that. I mean cuz he's Kevin Durant.
Richard Jefferson: Who was your favorite person that you were excited to go against in the league? Like actually go at? Trey Johnson: Kevin Durant. Just playing against him. Watched him a lot growing up.