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Warriors will try to regroup for Game 7

Cavaliers forward LeBron James and Warriors guard Stephen Curry wait to hear the result of a foul call during Game 6 of the NBA Finals.
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Oh my. What a bizarre series we have here.

The average margin of victory is a ridiculous 19.7 points, but the teams are actually tied in total points, 610-610, and if that doesn’t say it all about Cleveland-Golden State, what does?

The only certainty is that the NBA Finals conclude with Game 7 on Sunday at Golden State.

Who will win is anybody’s guess. Whether Ayesha Curry will tweet about it is also unknown.

The Cavaliers want to become the first team in Finals history to successfully rally from a 3-1 deficit. The Warriors want to do the unthinkable, win a second consecutive championship after 40 years of eminently forgettable basketball.

Golden State was clearly in the left lane, speeding toward another title, when Draymond Green struck LeBron James below the waist in Game 4. Green was suspended for Game 5 and the Warriors lost by 15, at home no less.

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Then came Stephen Curry’s ejection in the fourth quarter of Game 6 after getting called for a foul, then hurling his mouthpiece in disgust and it hit a fan in the front row. Warriors Coach Steve Kerr blasted the officiating after the game.

On Friday the NBA fined Curry and Kerr $25,000 each.

Frustration in the Curry family in Game 6 wasn’t limited to foul calls.

Stephen’s wife, Ayesha, was very active on Twitter, voicing her general displeasure with Cleveland’s arena and the people inside it.

“Police racial profiled my father and told him to remove credentials and tried to arrest him,” she wrote to her 491,000 followers. “I’m okay that we lost … I just can’t take people coming at my family for absolutely no reason. Something I don’t understand or stand for.”

Her father was mistakenly identified as con artist David Aminzadeh, who sneaked into past NBA events with phony credentials, according to The Undefeated website.

Before the game, Ayesha also tweeted that a busload of Warriors family members was delayed entrance to the game at the arena’s loading dock.

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“10 mins til game time and … they won’t let us in yet,” she wrote, suggesting it also happened for previous games at Quicken Loans Arena. “Interesting tactic though. Again.”

She also tweeted that the NBA was “absolutely rigged for money,” which was promptly deleted by her, and that a cousin was not allowed into a local casino earlier in the day because he was wearing Warriors gear, which wasn’t deleted.

If it’s any consolation to her, the Warriors are done playing in Cleveland.

If it’s any consolation to Cleveland fans, they’re still not done playing.

Golden State, the team that went a record-setting 73-9 in the regular season, all of a sudden looked like the franchise that went four decades between championships until last season.

In Game 6, the Warriors’ 11 points were the fewest in a Finals first quarter in the shot-clock era.

“It’s not explainable. Inexcusable,” Warriors guard Klay Thompson said. “Come Sunday, we’ve got to blitz them. We can’t be on our heels and them be the aggressor. We’ve got so many good players on this team that if they’re trying to take out me, Steph, or whoever, someone’s going to step up.”

Someone also might want to stop James.

He has been nothing short of scintillating, joining Jerry West, Michael Jordan, Shaquille O’Neal and Rick Barry as the only players with consecutive Finals games of 40-plus points.

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He’s barreled through the lane with little resistance and his three-point shot has been on point the last two games — seven for 14, far better than his 32% long-range accuracy before that in the playoffs.

His series averages make him a serious candidate for Finals most valuable player, win or lose: 30.2 points, 11.3 rebounds, 8.5 assists, 2.7 steals, 2.2 blocked shots and 51.4% shooting accuracy.

The only time a player on the losing team won the Finals MVP was West for the Lakers in 1969 against Boston. The only award James wants is the one named after former NBA Commissioner Larry O’Brien.

He captured Cleveland’s two-game renaissance better than anyone Thursday after scoring 41 points yet again.

“It’s two of the greatest words in the world,” he said, “and that’s ‘Game 7.’”

mike.bresnahan@latimes.com

Twitter: @Mike_Bresnahan

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