Warriors vs. Raptors: NBA Finals Game 1, live stream, how to watch, preview, odds

The Warriors and the Raptors will battle it out in the 2019 NBA Finals. The two-time defending champion the Warriors are in their fifth consecutive NBA Finals appearance, while the Toronton Raptors are at the season's final stage for the first time in the 24-year history of their franchise. 

The Raptors beat the the Warriors 131-128 on Nov. 29, 2018 and then again 113-93 on Dec. 12, 2018 to complete the regular-season sweep. But the stakes are much higher as the NBA Finals get underway with Game 1 of Golden State Warriors vs. Toronto Raptors at 9 p.m. ET on Thursday evening. It's the fifth-straight finals appearance for the Warriors and the first ever for the Raptors.

By any measure, be it in the playoffs alone or the season overall, the Warriors have not been the juggernaut defensively this season that they have been during the rest of their 5-year run. They are still good, certainly. But they are not as driven, as deep or as co-ordinated as they have been in years past, and have had to win their playoff series thus far through heavy scoring.

So good are the Toronto Raptors' starting forwards Kawhi and Siakam that they are now in need of a catchy Splash Brothers-like nickname of their own. Leonard has been truly magnificent in these playoffs, the best player in them, and while the pairing of Klay Thompson are theoretically good man-to-man defensive options for checking him, any other Golden State switching onto him is immediately in peril.

For Pascal Siakam, a player at the end of an excellent break-out season, he needs to run Golden State off the park. Pascal Siakam best assets are his speed and handle in transition, plus his ability to defend in space and recover in a way that the slower Serge Ibaka and Marc Gasol cannot do.

2019 NBA Finals Live Stream : Warriors vs. Raptors Game 1

• Date: Thursday, May 30, 2019
• Time: 9 p.m. ET
• Location: Scotiabank Arena, Toronto
• Odds: Raptors -1.5 ( Over / Under 213)

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Sky Sports stepped in at the last minute and announced that it had signed a four-year broadcast deal to air NBA Finals. The network aired more than 170 live games during this year’s regular season and it will continue to show games throughout the NBA Finals.

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