For the third straight year, Golden State earned home court advantage against Cleveland with a league-best record of 67–15.

With the acquisition of free agent Superstar Kevin Durant in the offseason, the Warriors were hailed as a "Superteam" by the media and fans, forming a new All-Star "Big Four" lead by Kevin Durant, Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson, and Draymond Green.

[9] The Warriors also entered the Finals with the largest playoff points differential in NBA history, with a +16.3 winning margin per game.

[12] The Warriors and Cavaliers tied the regular season series 1–1, with each team winning its home game.

[17] The Warriors defeated the Cavaliers 118–113 to extend the longest winning streak in NBA playoff history to 15 games.

[18] The Warriors got off to a blistering start, hitting an NBA Finals record 9 three-pointers in the first quarter, resulting in an early 39–32 lead.

[19] During the game-ending run, Kevin Durant drilled the go-ahead three-pointer for Golden State with 45.3 seconds remaining and Iguodala blocked LeBron James' potential game-tying 3.

His highlight of the game came three minutes into the third quarter when he threw a pass off the backboard to himself, finishing with a powerful dunk.

As the teams prepared for a jump ball with 1:56 left in the first quarter, Green was called for a hard foul for throwing an elbow at Iman Shumpert.

Durant claimed he was hit hard in the forehead, and James exchanged words with him, leading to a double-technical on the pair as well as a type 1 flagrant foul on Kevin Love.

[23] About a minute later, Green picked up what appeared to be his second technical foul of the game, which would have forced an ejection.

At the same time, a Cavaliers fan, charged onto the court to shout at Matt Barnes during the Warriors huddle as the officials were replaying the incident.

Shumpert and Pachulia were assessed double technicals, and the fan was escorted out of the arena by security personnel.

[33] A 28–4 run pushed Golden State ahead, just after it looked like Durant committed his third foul on a basket by James that was not called.

[32] Kevin Durant hit a 17-foot fadeaway over James early in the fourth quarter, then assisted on an Andre Iguodala 3-pointer the next possession as the Warriors began to pull away for good.

[33] In the 4th quarter, Stephen Curry hit a three-pointer over Kyrie Irving to seal the game for the Warriors.

Kevin Durant, who was defeated in the 2012 NBA Finals when his Oklahoma City Thunder were finished off 4–1 by LeBron James' Miami Heat, returned the favor by scoring a team high 39 points in the 4–1 series defeat of James' Cavaliers while being honored as the 2017 Finals MVP.

[33] LeBron James finished with 41 points, 13 rebounds and eight assists and became the first player in NBA history to average a triple-double in the NBA Finals, a feat made all the more impressive with his excellent shooting percentages of 56% from the field and 38% from behind the arc over the 5-game series, with the only blemishes being his poor free-throw shooting and turnover count.

[33] With the win at Oracle, the Warriors became the first Bay Area team to win a championship in their home city since the Oakland A's beat the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game 5 of the 1974 World Series (the San Francisco 49ers won Super Bowl XIX in January 1985 at Stanford Stadium in nearby Stanford and the Oakland Athletics won the 1989 World Series in San Francisco), gaining revenge from their 2016 loss.

Roster Last transaction: May 8, 2017 In the United States, the NBA Finals aired on ABC (and for the third consecutive year on local affiliates WEWS-TV in Cleveland and KGO-TV in San Francisco/Oakland) with Mike Breen as play-by-play commentator, and Mark Jackson and Jeff Van Gundy serving as color commentators.

ESPN Deportes provided exclusive Spanish-language coverage of The Finals, with a commentary team of Álvaro Martín and Carlos Morales.