CLEVELAND — LeBron James is back in the NBA Finals, and he's taking the Cleveland Cavaliers with him.

In addition to witnessing which team will be worthy of representing the Western Conference in the championship round, we'll be treated to a tasty subplot in the conference finals: Is Steph Curry really a more valuable player than James Harden?

``Our first preseason game, when we came out, everybody was screaming, `Kobe! Kobe!''' says Andrew Goudelock, who was a Lakers rookie during the lockout season of 2011-12. ``I'd never been around that kind of stuff. I said to him, `That doesn't faze you, people going crazy, screaming your name, taking pictures - it doesn't get on your nerves?' He said, `Once I get out here, I don't hear anything. It's just me and the court. I play like there's nothing going on.'

The uptempo, high-scoring and crowd-pleasing Golden State Warriors of the regular season hadn't been heard from through the first four games of this Western Conference semifinal against the grind-it-out Memphis Grizzlies.

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MEMPHIS — After two games in which they looked a team searching for answers, in Game 4 the Golden State Warriors and their revitalized MVP Stephen Curry used a subtle tactical adjustment to help them find a foothold, and beat the Memphis Grizzlies, 101-84, to level the series at 2-2.