Play. But there's gonna be a lot of soda drinking, even some beer drinking in Oakland this Sunday night, in fact, in homes across the country, as the Cleveland Cavaliers, led by some amazing playing last night by Lebron James, come back from a three game deficit to move on to Game seven against the Oakland the Golden State Warriors this Sunday night. Quite a game, quite a showdown. And Scott Sashnik is here, our sports reporter at large, to put
this in contacts for US. I guess Scott's starting with what this means for the Cavaliers franchise if they pull this off. Quite apart from the drama, for anybody who's been watching these games, this has been amazing. Well, this goes back to when Lebron left Cleveland. He left because he didn't feel he could win there, so he went to Miami. He got his two titles, then he said he wanted to go back home to fulfill that destiny and win a championship for the city that has been struggling.
Didn't look good down three one. Stuff was playing well, the Warriors were playing well. Yeah, everybody's play. It didn't look so good for the for the Calves. Here they are though they've done what they had to do three three, And if you're Lebron James, you have to let your chances in a one one game lottery? Sure? Why not? All right, Scott, They're gonna be playing Sunday, as Kathleen mentioned at the Oracle Arena. And what's your call on this game? Are the Cavaliers gonna take it? Or will
the Golden State Warriors send Steph Curry take it? Why do you put me in these positions because that's what you get paid for it. Well, to think of a team that hadn't lost many games at all this year, record breaking season for the Warriors. They did lose Andrew Bogat. Let's not minimize they're not at full strength. But back on the home floor, comfort, sleep in your own bed,
all the things that a home crowd gives. It'd be hard for me to fathom that team losing three games in a row, even though they don't look they looked a little wobbly in the last two. If they're we're gonna regain their footing there you go back on your home floor. You've got to give a slight edge to the calf to the to the Warriors, simply because they're back in those familiar territories, so give them a slight edge. But again, Lebron on fire the last couple of games,
and Draymond Green was out the game before last. But even with even with Draymond Green back, and I know he was on his home court. Yeah, it's I mean, this is what you were set up for going into this playoffs. Everybody wanted to see the record setting team against arguably the best player in the league in Lebron or is it staff Lebron? Has he helped craft this team he wanted? Kevin Love, you want to carry Irving?
This is the team he wanted. He no matter what he says, he helped to pick these players he could never have foreseen as nobody in the NBA did. Not only the Warriors, but the rise of Steph Curry. Everything has become about Steph. All those Lebron jerseys you saw a few years ago New York City. You walk around, maybe I'll see a Porzingis or Karmelo Anthony. Maybe all
I see is Steph Curry. All the kids know is Warriors and Steph and the kids are He's changed the game, They're taking three point shots from twenty five ft away. Revolutionized the game. He's selling more jersey than anybody else. He's a great billboard for the league. He's gonna be a great international spokesman as Lebron was. Now we see if you can add back to back champion to it,
because Lebron needs that. In Cleveland, can I get your assessment of the first quarter, because the Cavaliers right, I mean they right, I mean what happened Golden State scoring in the first quarter, I believe was the fewest quarter first quarter points that the team has scored in a finals game in the shot clock era. You know, this is gonna sound really simplistic and maybe even a bit dumb, but I'm gonna do it anyway more than any other team.
You know what it boils down to for the Warriors, and of course it's the basis upon which the entire game is laid. They need to make their shots. You can't guard the shots. You can make them try and you've seen a little holding and it's been a little more difficult for stuff to get open around those screens. But these guys throughout the season, they've won because Clay Thompson and Steph Curry, even with a seven footer in their face from thirty two ft away, make the shots.
So if they have one of those games where those two guys make their shots, which more often than not they do, they're going to win. If Cleveland wins, you know, you just had a scoop on a steak in the calves. What does it mean for the value of their franchise? What does it mean for the city of Cleveland, Well, they can what does it mean they can stop talking about Ernest Binder and whoa is us? The fumble, all the bad things that happened. Line man, come on the money.
I don't think means anything for the valuation of the franchise because as all of the pillars that drive valuation your national revenues, you'll this this is a marquee team with arguably again the best player in the world. They're high profile. They make tons of national TV appearances the most you can. They have an international following, they have superstar players, they sell out, Their marketing is great, their
sponsorship is great. Because of all those things. Can they get a little halo bump off a championship sort of a little five T kicker on their sponsors or tickets. Sure, yeah, he could probably ring a few extra pennies out out of his customers. But when you're talking about billion and a half two billion dollar franchises, you're talking pennies on the dollar. All right, we're gonna be looking, of course, on Sunday Game seven Sunday Oracle Arena, eight pm Eastern
Time on ABC. Thank you very much to Scott Sashnik, Bloomberg Sports reporter at large. You're listening to taking Stock on Bloomberg Radio.