{"id":707677,"date":"2026-06-16T15:35:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T15:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/707677\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T15:35:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T15:35:20","slug":"andre-iguodala-opens-up-on-infamous-2016-nba-finals-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/707677\/","title":{"rendered":"Andre Iguodala opens up on infamous 2016 NBA Finals play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/teams\/golden-state\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:Golden State Warriors;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Golden State Warriors&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Golden State Warriors<\/a> forward <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/players\/3826\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:Andre Iguodala;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Andre Iguodala&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Andre Iguodala<\/a> recently opened up on one of the most infamous NBA Finals moments he was a part of. Despite winning four championships and an NBA Finals MVP award, many non-Golden State fans remember Iguodala for another reason, being on the receiving end of a chase-down block from former <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/teams\/cleveland\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:Cleveland Cavaliers;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Cleveland Cavaliers&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cleveland Cavaliers<\/a> forward <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/players\/3704\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:LeBron James;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;LeBron James&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LeBron James<\/a> in Game 7 of the 2016 NBA Finals.<\/p>\n<p>When reminiscing on the play with former Cavalier <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/players\/3523\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:Richard Jefferson;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Richard Jefferson&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Richard Jefferson<\/a>, Iguodala <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NBA__Courtside\/status\/2066289363592376542\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:said;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;said&quot;}\" class=\"link \">said<\/a>, \u201cAll I heard was like a sonic boom. It sounded like somebody got shot. It was loud. When I heard it, I was waiting on the whistle for a goal-tend.&#8221; Iguodala went on to say that he still hears kids reference commentator Mike Breen&#8217;s call: &#8220;Blocked by James!&#8221; Despite suffering the loss, Iguodala and the Warriors would get their revenge next season, defeating the Cavaliers in five games to win the 2017 NBA Finals.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Warriors Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/warriorswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nba\/warriors\/2026\/06\/16\/andre-iguodala-opens-up-on-infamous-nba-finals-block\/90568906007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Andre Iguodala opens up on infamous NBA Finals block;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Andre Iguodala opens up on infamous NBA Finals block&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Andre Iguodala opens up on infamous NBA Finals block<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Golden State Warriors forward Andre Iguodala recently opened up on one of the most infamous NBA Finals&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":707678,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[294750,52976,8174,2243,3013,355,5489,305493,95478,99],"class_list":["post-707677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-2016-nba-finals","tag-andre-iguodala","tag-cleveland-cavaliers","tag-golden-state-warriors","tag-lebron-james","tag-nba","tag-nba-finals","tag-nba-finals-mvp-award","tag-richard-jefferson","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=707677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/707678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}