As the city of Cleveland continues to soak in the Cavaliers’ NBA Championship, here are some final figures on how they did it in “By the Numbers” presented by FanDuel.
100 … total Playoff victories that the Cavaliers have recorded over their 46-year history – appropriately hitting the century mark by winning the 2016 NBA Championship
29.7, 11.3, 8.9, 2.6, 2.3 … points, rebounds, assists, steals and blocked shots that LeBron James averaged in the 2016 Finals, leading both teams in each category and earning unanimous MVP honors
10 … double-doubles that Kevin Love posted in the 2016 Playoffs – (including the first eight games of the postseason) – while tallying five 20-10 games along the way
4 … teams that have won a Finals Game 7 on the road, the Cavaliers becoming the first since the Washington Bullets beat the Seattle SuperSonics in 1978
.565 … Channing Frye’s three-point percentage (26-for-46) in the 2016 Playoffs – tops among all players with at least 20 attempts
18 … games during the 2016 Playoffs in which Kyrie Irving topped the 20-point plateau – topping the 30-point mark six times and netting 41 in Game 5 of the Finals
.857 … Cavaliers’ winning percentage against Eastern Conference teams over the past two postseasons – compiling a 24-4 record, including a 13-1 mark at home
10.2, 11.5 … Tristan Thompson’s scoring and rebounding averages in 13 NBA Finals games against the Warriors – grabbing double-digit boards in 10 of those games, with seven double-doubles
5 … teammate duos — now including LeBron and Kyrie – to each average at least 25.0 points in an NBA Finals
.516 … Richard Jefferson’s field goal percentage in the 2016 Finals
65 … three-pointers that J.R. Smith canned during the 2016 Playoffs – eclipsing his own franchise record of 51, set last season
6 … games during the 2016 Playoffs in which LeBron James, Kyrie Irving and Kevin Love all topped the 20-point mark
18,802 … days between the Browns winning the NFL Championship on December 27, 1964 and the Cavaliers winning the NBA title on June 19, 2016
12, 11 … blocked shots and steals that LeBron tallied over the final four games of the Finals
.383 … Golden State’s field goal percentage over the last three games of the 2016 Finals
2 … players in NBA Finals history to shoot at least 70 percent from the floor in a 40-point game – Kyrie Irving (Game 5 vs. GSW, 2016) and Wilt Chamberlain (Game 6 vs. NYK, 1970)
9-1 … Cavaliers’ record at The Q during the 2016 Playoffs, outscoring opponents by an average of 17.9 points – shooting .499 from the field, including .431 from long-range
7 … triple-doubles that LeBron James has recorded over his Finals career – including his 23-11-11 trifecta in Game 7 – placing him one shy of the all-time leader, Magic Johnson
.694 … Tyronn Lue’s winning percentage – (43-19) – regular and postseason as Cavaliers’ head coach
258 … three-pointers made by the Cavaliers in the 2016 Playoffs – second-most ever hit by a team in a single postseason, only trailing the team they topped in Game 7 last Sunday night
15-0 … Cavaliers’ record in the 2016 Playoffs when scoring more than 100 points
26 … consecutive Playoff series in which LeBron James has won at least one road game, the longest streak in NBA history
3 … teams in league history – the 1951 Knicks, 1966 Lakers and 2016 Cavaliers – to reach a seventh game after trailing, 3-1, in the Finals
1 … team in league history – the 2016 Cleveland Cavaliers – to win an NBA title after trailing, 3-1, in the Finals
