ESPN Forecast: Finals predictions

It's the NBA's best team against the best player in the world. Which team -- the Golden State Warriors or the Cleveland Cavaliers -- will hoist the Larry O'Brien Trophy when the dust settles? We asked our ESPN Forecast panel who will prevail in the NBA Finals.

Our panel is predicting a six-game series win for Stephen Curry& Co. -- securing the franchise's first championship since 1975 -- over LeBron James and championship-starved Cleveland.

How it works: The ESPN Forecast panel predicted each team's likelihood of winning each of the seven potential games and each team's likelihood of winning the series. The top-line "Forecast" is based on a combination of the mean, median and mode of the predictions for each series.

Editor's note: Predictions were made prior to the start of the series.-->

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