OAKLAND, Calif. — Anderson Varejao could get a ring no matter who wins the Finals.

After 11 ¹/₂ seasons with the Cavaliers, Varejao was traded this season from Cleveland to Golden State, the two teams re-enacting last year’s Finals.

“He wants to win maybe more than anybody,” the Warriors’ Shaun Livingston said. “He spent so much time with Cleveland, playing there, I think this would be pretty sweet revenge. We told him, ‘You’ll get a ring either way it goes.’ He said, ‘No, I’m with you guys. Look at my shirt.’ ”

Varejao said he really doesn’t know what to expect Thursday in Game 1. But when Game 3 comes in Cleveland next week, he said the emotional floodgates will open.

“I‘m pretty sure I’m going to have emotions when I go back to Cleveland and playing against Cleveland,” he said. “I still don’t know how it’s going to be. I’ll have to wait and see when I really face them on the court when I get to Cleveland. I’m pretty sure a lot of emotions are going to go through my head and my body.

“I never thought I was going to be traded, but I was. It’s part of the business. I have to understand that and focus here now on winning the championship.”

The Cavs’ — and ex-Knick — J.R. Smith weighed in on whether LeBron James is fueled by Stephen Curry winning MVP.

“Yeah, as a competitor, it drives him, but the thing about LeBron, he doesn’t get caught up in who he’s playing or what everybody else has done,” Smith said. “I think that’s what’s been his success. No matter who he plays against, he goes out there the same way with that aggressiveness.”

Maybe the games should be played in Phoenix. There are seven products of the University of Arizona in these Finals: coach Steve Kerr, assistants Luke Walton and Bruce Fraser and wing Andre Iguodala from the Warriors and Channing Frye, Richard Jefferson and assistant Bret Brielmaier of the Cavs.

When the Warriors’ Klay Thompson looks at the Cavs, he sees a lot of similarities.

“Obviously the volume of 3s they shoot,” he said. “They’re playing with great spacing. They obviously have a guy who can get in the paint or two guys that can get in the paint at will in LeBron and Kyrie [Irving],” Thompson said. “It’s similar to us because the ball, what I see from this team this year compared to last year, doesn’t stick as much. They move the ball a lot better.”