LeBron James viciously throws down on JaVale McGee in Game 1 dunk fest with Warriors

By Andre Vergara
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Game 1 of the much-anticipated 2017 NBA Finals started out as a clinic on bad basketball, but when the Cleveland Cavaliers and Golden State Warriors got the nerves out, they started throwing down ... nasty dunks.

Leave it to LeBron James to punctuate the first-quarter display with a vicious dunk on JaVale McGee:

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Whoa! Can we see that in slo-mo?

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It was a Game 1 dunk fest, with the Warriors alone getting seven in the quarter, and no one was complaining.

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James finished with 28 points and 15 rebounds but had eight turnovers, while Kevin Durant had 38 points, eight assists and eight rebounds as the Warriors won 113-91.