The NBA Finals MVP has often also been the player to have the highest PER in the series, but there have been a number of years during the Michael Jordan, Hakeem Olajuwon, Shaquille O'Neal, Tim Duncan, Kobe Bryant and LeBron James era where that hasn't been the case.

- Finals MVP in parentheses 

1991: Michael Jordan: 34.1 (Michael Jordan)

1992: Michael Jordan: 27.1 (Michael Jordan)

1993: Michael Jordan: 31.7 (Michael Jordan)

1994: Hakeem Olajuwon: 25.6 (Hakeem Olajuwon)

1995: Hakeem Olajuwon: 25.7 (Hakeem Olajuwon)

1996: Shawn Kemp: 27.5 (Michael Jordan)

1997: Michael Jordan: 29.3 (Michael Jordan)

1998: Michael Jordan: 28.7 (Michael Jordan)

1999: Tim Duncan: 28.0 (Tim Duncan)

2000: Shaquille O’Neal: 36.6 (Shaquille O’Neal)

2001: Shaquille O’Neal: 33.8 (Shaquille O’Neal)

2002: Shaquille O’Neal: 38.5 (Shaquille O’Neal)

2003: Tim Duncan: 30.4 (Tim Duncan)

2004: Chauncey Billups: 29.3 (Chauncey Billups)

2005: Chauncey Billups: 24.4 (Tim Duncan)

2006: Dwyane Wade: 30.5 (Dwyane Wade)

2007: Tony Parker: 25.4 (Tony Parker)

2008: Ray Allen: 20.6 (Paul Pierce)

2009: Kobe Bryant: 28.7 (Kobe Bryant)

2010: Pau Gasol: 25.3 (Kobe Bryant)

2011: Dwyane Wade: 32.6 (Dirk Nowitzki)

2012: Mike Miller: 33.7 (LeBron James)

2013: LeBron James: 29.2 (LeBron James)

2014: LeBron James: 32.6 (Kawhi Leonard)

2015: LeBron James: 27.5 (Andre Iguodala)

2016: LeBron James: 33.4 (LeBron James)

2017: Kevin Durant: 32.6 (Kevin Durant)

Kevin Love will be available to play in Game 1 of the NBA Finals.

Love was in the concussion protocol following his injury in Game 6 but has now been cleared.

Stephen Curry has won the regular season MVP award twice but has yet to win a Finals MVP. Andre Iguodala won the award in 2015 while Kevin Durant won it in 2017.

"It took to the second question of my first media availability, so I'm pretty sure that narrative's going to take life, as it has since 2015," Curry said. "But it doesn't make or break my career or whatever you want to say looking back. If we win this championship and I don't win Finals MVP, I'm going to be smiling just as wide and just as big."

Curry said the Finals MVP-void narrative isn't coming from his inner circle.

"Not even the people close to me," he said. "That's kind of the nature of the beast being on this stage four times in a row. You've always got to look at what you don't have. There is always that thing about society always looking at can you attain more and more and more."

"I can guarantee you that Steph is not up late thinking about winning the Finals MVP," Draymond Green told ESPN. "We're all trying to win another championship. If he gets [the award], he gets it. But that's not what he, or anybody else on this team, is playing for."

Curry realizes he has to be comfortable accepting criticisms.

"That's fine. It's part of the beast," he said. "It's part of my motivation to try to get back to this stage because I want more championships. But I've never really highlighted the individual type -- even before my regular-season MVPs, I've never even really attacked it as if that was the goal, per se. Like I said, my values around how I play, good things usually happen for me and my team if I'm in that type of mindset.

"... But I'm going to play aggressively, confidently with that right energy and motivation to help my team win. And usually when I'm in that mindset, good things happen. Whether that means it's a Finals MVP or not, who cares, but I'm going to be playing like it for sure."

Andre Iguodala has been ruled out of Game 1 of The Finals.

Iguodala continues to suffer from a bone bruise and inflammation of the nerve surrounding his left knee.

Iguodala suffered the injury in Game 3 of the Western Conference Finals.

Iguodala will be re-evaluated before Game 2.

Kevin Love remains in the NBA's concussion protocol and his status for Game 1 is uncertain.

Love missed Game 7 of the Eastern Conference finals at Boston after banging heads with Jayson Tatum in Game 6.

Love missed a game in the 2016 Finals because of a concussion and also was out after a concussion in March. Love also sat out the 2015 Finals with a separated shoulder.

Andre Iguodala has been ruled out for Game 7 of the Western Conference Finals as he continues to battle a left lateral leg contusion.

"He's frustrated," Steve Kerr said. "He's totally frustrated. If he could play, he would play. But his body has not responded to this point."

Iguodala was injured in Game 3 when he banged knees with James Harden.

The Warriors have a thin wing rotation as they have continued to have an excess of centers.

Steve Kerr entered Game 6 confident of the Warriors' chances due to things he saw his team figure out in their Game 5 loss.

“No, I truly felt something coming,” Kerr said. “I thought we had a breakthrough last game, a couple things offensively. Nothing I want to mention. But I thought we had a couple breakthroughs that were going to lead to this game.

“What I didn’t see coming was the horrific defense we started the game with. Oh my God, we let (Trevor) Ariza get wide open. I made a mistake — at one point I was yelling to David West while play was going on, he looked over at me, (James) Harden hit a 3.

“We were out of sorts. All of us — players and the coaching staff — I thought. Early on, we couldn’t believe what we were seeing. But we just stuck with it. Our guys were great. I just think getting it to 10 at halftime was a really big deal. Because 10 for us is nothing. It’s a couple possessions. Especially here. And sure enough, 8-0 run to start the third quarter, we’re right back in it.”

The Warriors again began to move the ball, cut and screen while getting out in transition.

“Yeah, we’ve been trying to get back to being us all series,” Kerr said. “I think Houston has done a great job of defending us, switching everything. They’ve built a great roster to do what they’re doing. They’ve got size and strength at every position. Sometimes, you kind of have to figure it out in terms of the ball movement.

“A lot of this stuff is different for us, because of the switching 1 through 5. So I think we’ve been trying to get more and more movement and mix in the KD isos against the mismatches. Tonight, obviously, we did a better job of finding the balance.”

Kevin Love has been ruled out of Game 7 after being placed in the concussion protocol.

Love was experiencing concussion-like symptoms after his collision with Jayson Tatum in the first quarter of Friday's game.

Tyronn Lue initially stated during a conference call that Love was in the concussion protocol. He then backtracked after further questioning to say that Love was still being evaluated and that he didn't know about the protocol process or whether Love would go into it.

The Cavaliers are minus-20 with Love in the game but plus-18 when he's off.

What happened in one snapshot in the Western Conference Finals on Thursday, May 24, 2018.

What happened in one snapshot in the Eastern Conference Finals on Wednesday, May 23, 2018.