OAKLAND — The Cavaliers missed their chance.
Their chance to claim Game 1. Their chance to flip the NBA Finals — considered by many to be a surefire and easy Warriors win — on its head.
And they played an exceptional game — ok, LeBron James played an exceptional game — and that, paired with another disjointed effort from the Warriors, closed the prodigious gap between the two teams and put a victory within Cleveland’s grasp in the final minute of regulation Thursday.
All Cavs guard George Hill had to do was make his second free-throw in a tied game with 4.