Let me first say that I am not a Golden State Warriors fan, and this argument is not a representation of a discomfited fan who cannot take a loss.

As a Cincinnati native, I was raised to hate all Cleveland sports teams; the Browns, Indians, and the Cavaliers (even though we don't have an NBA team in Cincinnati).The opposition between Cincinnati and Cleveland, also known as the Battle of Ohio, is a rivalry that has been engraved into my brain ever since I began watching sports.

In the rare event that Cincinnati and Cleveland fans come together, it is solely when we meet in the middle (Columbus) to root for our Ohio State Buckeyes.

So while many Ohioans are chanting "Ohio against the World," I refuse to root for Cleveland teams.

First off, let's rewind to the year 2010, when LeBron James left Cleveland after failing to bring the Cavaliers a championship.

So I think you get the point.

The flagrant disrespect that the fans showed towards LeBron when he left Cleveland after seven seasons, to play for the Miami Heat was completely outrageous.

Even the Cavaliers owner, Dan Gilbert, spoke ill of Lebron by saying (and I'm paraphrasing), that Lebron will bring his 'curse' down to Miami with him and in doing so his home town will yield bad karma.

LeBron's back-to-back championships in 2012-2013, while bringing the Heat to the finals every year he wore the #6, proves Gilbert wrong.

As we know, LeBron returned to Cleveland in 2014 again bearing the #23, and of course the Cavs fans were quick to forgive him after burning his jerseys.

Like nothing ever happened...

They even had Nike Witness shirts made

But enough of the past, let's focus on this season.

The Golden State Warriors made history this season by starting their regular season 24-0 and ending the regular season with a 73-9 record which is best to the 1995-1996 Bulls who went 72-10 and also won the NBA Championship. So now we're all comparing the 2015-2016 Warriors to the '95-'96 Bulls who are considered the best team in the history of the NBA! Most will argue that the decision on the best basketball team in NBA history will come to down to the Finals; if the Warriors do not win the NBA Finals, then they are not better than the '95-'96 Bulls, who will remain the best in history.

Anyway, a 73-9 record means that the Warriors won about 90% of their regular season games, the best record in the Western Conference. The Warriors won both of their regular season match-ups with the Cavs by a 40-point margin in total.

The Cavaliers went 57-25 in the regular season, winning 69% of their games. While this is a winning record, it is hardly impressive. The Cavs did have the best record in the Eastern Conference, with the Toronto Raptors close behind, but they had only the third-best in the league, behind the San Antonio Spurs who had a 67-15 record.

Notice how no one is comparing the Cavaliers to the Bulls, nor are they arguing that they're the best in history based on their performance this season.

So while no other teams compare to the Warriors 90 percent win record and the Spurs 80 percent win record, the Cavaliers sit very close to the Raptors, the Oklahoma City Thunder, and the Los Angeles Clippers who are all in the 65-69% range.

But of course the regular season means nothing if you can't make it through the finals.

In the Opening Round of the playoffs, Golden State faced the Houston Rockets. With only one loss in Game 3, the Warriors advanced to the Conference semi-finals facing the Portland Trail Blazers, mirroring the opening Round and by only losing Game 3. The Warriors faced Oklahoma City in the Western Conference Finals. After falling to a 3-1 deficit in Game 4 of the 7-game series. The Warriors were able to recover by winning Game 5, Game 6 and Game 7, to play in the NBA finals for the second year in a row.

The Cavaliers breezed through the first two rounds of the NBA finals beating both the Detroit Pistons and Atlanta Hawks in Game 4 of each series. Cleveland battled the Raptors in the Eastern Conference finals losing in Game 4 and 5 but ultimately advanced to the finals after their fourth win in Game 6.

Finally we've made it to the NBA finals which leads to my fundamental question for anyone who has made it this far in my rant: Did the Cavaliers win the NBA Finals, or did the Warriors just lose the NBA Finals?

For those of you who think both answers are synonymous, let me break it down: Did the Cavaliers win the NBA finals by outplaying the best team from the West at their best? Or did the Warriors burn out and lose to the Cavs because they could no longer perform at their peak?

The Warriors out-shined the Cavaliers in the first two games of the finals series winning by 15 points in the first game and 33 points in the second. The Cavaliers would dominate Game 3 with a 30-point win and again lose in Game 4.

As of now (in this article), the Cavs are down 3-1 in the NBA Finals. No team in NBA history has come back from a 3-1 deficit in the Finals. All the Warriors had to do was win one more of the next three games in order to win their second straight NBA Championship Title.

Now, I want to focus on the best player from each team and how they match up. Both Lebron James of the Cavs and Stephen Curry of the Warriors are Akron Ohio natives and arguably the best players on each team. Many will contest to the fact that Steph was not ready for the heat of "King" James in the finals, but I would argue otherwise. Curry has proven that he and his team are quite capable of defeating "The King."

Their first meeting of the season was on Christmas Day of 2015, Curry scored only 19 points while LeBron scored 25. Neither player remarkably notable stats in the game.

They met again on January 18, when Steph would put up 35 points with a .667 Field Goal percentage. LeBron scored about half that with 19 points and a .438 Field Goal Percentage.

He can and has outplayed LeBron in many games including the NBA Finals of 2015.

So to say that Curry cannot handle LeBron, is just outright ignorant.

During the regular season Curry averaged 30.1 points per game, and scored 2,375 points. His field goal percentage was at .504 while his 3-point field goal percentage was just below at .454. He broke the record for most three-pointers in a season which was set by himself the year before.

Now if we fast forward to the Finals; Steph was only averaging 22.6 points per game and shooting .403 field goal percentage and a .400 3-point percentage.

Specifically in Game 7, Curry only had 17 points, .316 field goal percentage, and .286 3-point percentage. His stats from the regular season dropped drastically.

For those of you who want to argue with me that "Curry is not the only player on the team," know that I am perfectly aware of this fact. But for purposes of not losing my fingers, or my reader(s) getting too bored, I simply using the unanimous MVP as a prime example of the drastic collapse of the Warriors.

It wasn't that LeBron and his squad dominated Curry and his team, it was that the Warriors burnt out from such a successful season. The Warriors were physically, emotionally and mentally drained from playing so hard, that they no longer were able to reach their peak performance.

What if the Warriors had lost the Western Conference and the OKC Thunder had advanced? Do we really believe that the Cavs could have stopped Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook, one of, if not the most offensively dominate duo in the west? Would LeBron have scored a triple-double in the Finals if he was defended by a player like Steven Adams? Not to mention LeBron had three triple-doubles this season while Westbrook had 18!

So the Cavaliers won Game 7. They "made history" by doing what no other team has done in NBA Finals history which is come back from a 3-1 deficit in the Finals.

So now NBA fans view the Cavaliers as "making history" for winning 3 consecutive games, rather than seeing the most extraordinary accomplishment made by an NBA team this year, which is having the most successful regular season and being compared to the most accomplished team in NBA history.

The fact that the Cavs were the first team to ever come back from a 3-1 deficit in the Finals just seems like another one of the ridiculous NBA stats:

'First triple-double, before the fourth quarter, since Michael Jordan's second retirement, while LeBron wore a black sweatband.'

By the end of the season, the Cavaliers had a 73-30 record and the Warriors a 88-18 record.

It took the Cavaliers an additional four playoff series in order to reach the number of wins the Warriors had in the regular season.

So while I do not mean to belittle the talent and heart of players such as LeBron James, Kyrie Irving, Tristan Thompson and the rest of the Cavaliers roster, I ask again; Did the Cavaliers win the NBA Championships, or did the Warriors simply lose?

We all know LeBron believes that he is the ultimate champion after arriving back in Cleveland wearing a Kermit the Frog 'It's none of my business' hat, and a shirt that said "Ultimate Warriors," throwing some not so subtle shade at Golden State.

No matter the true answer, no matter your opinion, no matter mine, the Cavs have broken the 52-year drought that has gone unbroken since the Browns won a championship.

So while many of my peers have seemed to hop on this Cleveland Cavaliers bandwagon, I will continue to cheer "Who Dey," root for the Big Red Machine and refer to Cleveland as the armpit of Ohio.