The celebration begins! https://t.co/I53QfcTjHY
— NBA (@NBA) May 28, 2016
The Cleveland Cavaliers secured their second straight trip to the NBA Finals Friday night so of course a celebration ensued.
The Eastern Conference Champions popped bottles – but not what you think. Instead of the usual champagne, the Cavs celebrated with water and, according to Kevin Love, milk. LeBron James, Kyrie Irving, and Kevin Love were asked in the postgame press conference why the team chose not to shower one another with champagne.
Hate to disappoint you, but the answer was quite simple. “We didn’t have champagne, so we took waters,” James answered. A spokesperson for chocolate milk, Love joked, “I had chocolate milk.” Love even has his own ad campaign which is more of a concept and not an actual name brand endorsement deal. There’s no proof that Love was actually covered in chocolate milk, but Twitter did have a little bit of fun with it.
Flip the page to see the players’ responses and a supportive tweet from “Chocolate Milk”.