The Cavaliers got a huge 112-97 win against the Warriors at Oracle Arena in a must-win situation last night. LeBron James and Kyrie Irving both scored 41 points, becoming the first teammates to ever score 40 or more points in the same Finals game. LeBron also added 16 rebounds and seven assists. Irving was even better, shooting 17-24 from the floor, including 5-7 from behind the three-point line. Then there was Kevin Love, who had two points, three rebounds, and one assist. And he may have gotten rejected by LeBron, too.Around the halfway mark of the first quarter, Love appeared to offer up his hand to LeBron, much like you would expect a high five to look like, and it becomes immediately apparent that LeBron would not be reciprocating. Love looks crushed and defeated as he slowly lowers his hand and looks around for comfort. But before this sequence—this would-be high five occurred right after the play referees were reviewing for a potential flagrant on Festus Ezeli's hard foul on Tristan Thompson—LeBron and Love seemed to have a bit of a communication breakdown on the defensive end.Ezeli picked up an offensive rebound on a Harrison Barnes miss and it appears LeBron was kind of miffed Love didn't box him out better. They were battling under the near side of the rim and then Love just let him go to the other side to get a clean rebound. Then he followed him over to try to block him, allowing Andre Iguodala to get the put-back dunk. As the Cavs inbound the ball after the dunk, both LeBron and Love look at each other like "WTF, man?"So when the whistle finally blew for the flagrant review, Love and LeBron started talking about the mishap. Love seemed to be saying "hey, I'm contesting the shot," when he raised his hand like that and LeBron is making the point that there wouldn't have been a shot if you had boxed him out first.So he didn't get left hanging, but still, it's hard not to believe that Kevin Love is a very sad and unhappy man in Cleveland. He's had a rough go of things in this series, missing Game 3 because he was in the concussion protocol, and then he was out of the starting lineup for Game 4. Then, in Game 5, when the Cavs clawed their way back into the series, Love contributed just two points and became a bit of meme when the world thought he got snubbed on a high five from his teammate. Turns out it was even worse. He was just getting chewed out.[ABC]
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