European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 4, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Stars and june 2007 sports Sharapov survives three match Points in French Page 38 r san Antonio Cleveland june 7 Cleveland at san an Tonio june 10 Cleveland at san an Tonio june 12 san Antonio at Cleve land june 14 san Antonio at Cleveland june 17 san Antonio at Cleve if necessary june 19 Cleveland at san an if necessary june 21 Cleveland at san an if necessary Cie Elands Lebron James jumps into the arms of teammate a Drunas Lugauskas after the Cavaliers beat the Detroit pistons to win the Eastern conference championship saturday in Detroit free Eric cars set for debut James gang will have hands full against Veteran spurs by Brian Mahoney the associated press Lebron James and the Cavaliers can end the City of Cleveland championship All they have to do is get past a team that been an expert at winning the Cavaliers will make their Aba finals debut thursday night in san where the spurs have Hung three banners since 1999 and will be favored to add san Antonios Gregg Popovich will be matched up against one of his former Assis Mike Brown spent three seasons with san Antonio and was on the spurs Bench when they won the 2003 the Cavaliers selected James later that month with the 1 pick in the and he needed Only four years to get his team to the nabs biggest Cleveland secured its finals spot by beating the Detroit pistons 9882 saturday night in game 6 of the Eastern conference James had 20 Points and 14 and Rookie Daniel Gibson added 31 Points in the fourth Cleveland Hast had a championship team in any major sport since but has rarely had a player like who scored a playoff career High 48 including the cars final in a double overtime Victory in game this is the Best thing that Ever happened to James said after the but look look it Doest the Cavaliers beat the spurs in a pair of lows coring games this not surprising because Popovich and Brown Are defend Siv minded we have a great we do talk from time to Brown said this hell Call and Check up on ill Call and ask for hell Call to say Good or whatever and ill do the you that about i Learned a lot from him and i grew a lot while working for and i continue to look at him As a Mentor and a Guy that can help me the spurs will be the More rested having wrapped up their five game Victory Over Utah in the Western conference finals on wednesday san Antonio took two Days off before returning to practice i spent some time in the Pool for the first time in a spurs guard Manu Ginobile its kind of Nice to have a couple of Days we really enjoyed and i think we needed the who won titles in and Are led by their Trio of Tim Tony Parker and Duncan is averaging Points and rebounds while shoot ing percent in the while Parker is scoring Points per game and Ginobile is adding Bruce one of the leagues Best defensive will try to slow Down James scored 35 Points in the cays 8881 Victory on Cleveland first win in san Antonio since he was held to Only 19 in the second but the cars limited the spurs to 38 percent shooting in an 8278 Home Victory on Cleveland has won the past three the cays will try to give the Aba consecutive firs time Miami beat Dallas last year in a matchup of teams making their finals Yankees falter after sons Lowell dishes out hits at on base paths Page 37 soccer ref attacked for foul in euro match Page 35 three goal third lifts senators of first Victory of cup finals Page 34 Edwards takes Check ered Flag in Busch race Page 33