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There was a pep to LeBron James’ step on Friday night in Atlanta. Game 2 without his two stars Kevin Love and Kyrie Irving? No problem. LeBron threw up 30 points, grabbed 9 rebounds, and handed 11 assists en route to a 94-82 Cavaliers victory to go up 2-0 with two home games coming up. […]

The NBA is quite a melodrama with the way player movements not only affect the lives of the athletes directly involved but also the culture of a city and its team. Just when you think you’re already confident about what’s going to happen, it suddenly hits you in the face. The wheeling and dealing aspect […]

Find all of today’s top plays and highlights on the next page below! With the team medical staff advising Kyrie to take Game 2 off, Coach Blatt went with an alternate starting lineup once again featuring Delly at the point, Shumpert, LBJ, and the big men Tristan Thompson and Timofey Mozgov. On the other end […]

LeBron James takes the Tristan Thompson screens, takes a little hop-step, and lobs it up to Tristan Thompson for the all-oop dunk. RELATED: Top 10 Alley Oop Dunks of 2014-15 Season

In Game 1, Kent Bazemore drove baseline and flushed down a dunk over Tristan Thompson. Here in Game 2, Bazemore attempts a similar play, and gets swatted by Tristan Thompson. Unfortunately, Thompson is called for a foul, but the replays show that it was a CLEAN block. RELATED: Craziest Blocks By LeBron James

Matthew Dellavedova gives to the cutting LeBron James, who dishes to the cutting Timofey Mozgov for the dunk. RELATED: Craziest Playoff Moments From LeBron James’ Career

There is a level of respect you get when you stand up after being shoved by another player who’s got 60 pounds on you. But read his lips, and you realize he might’ve just ignited LeBron James, who silences trash talk with domination.

LeBron James sizes up his defender, drives middle, and floats it up and in. RELATED: LeBron’s Top 10 Assists of the Season

In case you didn’t know, J.R. Smith doesn’t just shoot the ball. Here, Smith drives by Korver and finishes with the beautiful reverse layup. RELATED: Top 10 Greatest J.R. Smith Career Dunks

With Kyrie Irving missing tonight’s game, LeBron James has started out extra aggressive for the Cavs, scoring on three straight possessions. RELATED: Craziest Playoff Moments From LeBron James’ Career

Kyrie Irving, who has been gutting out the past couple of weeks in these playoffs, will not be able to play tonight in Game 2 of the East Finals against the Atlanta Hawks. Here is the full statement released by the Cleveland Cavaliers. RELATED: Kyrie Irving Dealing With Left Knee Tendinitis Aside From Sore Right […]

5. Limit Kyrie Irving’s Workload While Kyrie denied any pain prior to Game 1, his minutes were still limited due to his lingering left knee tendonitis and right foot injury. While only playing a conservative 27 minutes, the Cavs were still able to get the win. While the game was close at times, Delly and […]

After stealing Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Finals in Atlanta, the Cleveland Cavaliers have validated the theory that, come playoff time, regular season records are meaningless. The Houston Rockets were swept by the Golden State Warriors by an average difference of 14.1 ppg in the regular season before insinuating this thesis after falling short […]

The NBA’s got players playing older and older. If this list of players was a team put together in 2005, they would have beaten M.J.’s Bulls 72-win season record. It really is sad to see these players careers dwindling down the way they are now, compared to what they were at the beginning of their […]

J.R. Smith played 24 games with the New York Knicks this season and missed 10 games in December with a heel injury. Smith scored in double figures just 10 times of those 24 games, meaning 41.6% of his games were double figure scoring games. At 10.9 points, 2.4 rebounds, and 3.4 assists, the former sixth-man […]

On Thursday afternoon, the NBA announced their All-NBA Teams. Cavs forward LeBron James and Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry earned unanimous selections with 129 first-team votes each. Joining them were Houston Rockets guard James Harden, New Orleans Pelicans forward Anthony Davis, and Memphis Grizzlies center Marc Gasol. James was selected to his eighth consecutive […]

After playing just 27 minutes in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Finals, frustration seems to be building for Cavs starting point guard Kyrie Irving. Irving was able to play just nine second half minutes before sitting out the rest of the game. He finished with 10 points, three rebounds, and six assists. “This is […]

The NBA has been in existence for quite awhile now. It is obvious over the years that fads and styles have changed. One particular style we love to look at is hair. There are hundreds of different hairstyles. Over the past couple decades we have seen some pretty crazy and iconic ones. Here is my […]

The NBA Draft lottery is among us once again and it is very refreshing for Cleveland Cavaliers fans to focus on an actual basketball instead of ping pong balls at this time of the year. Gone are the days when the talk of town in May is the draft lottery and the incoming class of […]

Find all of today’s top plays and highlights on the next page below! The Cavs took a trip down to Philips Arena to take on the one-seed Atlanta Hawks in the Eastern Conference Finals. Both teams made it to the conference finals in 6, with the Hawks beating the Wizards, and the Cavs taking down […]

With J.R. Smith catching fire, DeMarre Carroll was assigned to defend him. That meant Paul Millsap had to guard LeBron James. Or at least, he tried to. RELATED: LeBron’s Top 10 Most Clutch Moments as a Cavalier!

Paul Millsap drives on Tristan Thompson, but Thompson recovers and swats his baseline floater back to his teammates, who come up with the rebound. RELATED: 10 Things You Didn’t Know About Tristan Thompson

Matthew Dellavedova rejects the LeBron James screen, going away from it and towards the middle, where the defense comes out to him and he finds Tristan Thompson for what should be their patented Delly-to-Thompson alley-oop, since they basically do this every game. RELATED: Tristan Thompson Is Cleveland’s New Dennis Rodman

LeBron James seems to have made up his mind in the second quarter: post up and attack. Post up and attack. LeBron goes right at DeMarre Carroll and makes him look helpless down low. RELATED: Craziest Playoff Moments From LeBron James’ Career

J.R. Smith has come to play in Atlanta, knocking down 3-of-3 from downtown early and knocks it down! RELATED: Top 10 Greatest J.R. Smith Career Dunks

Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Finals begins Wednesday night, and although the Cavs have had five days off now, some key players are still dealing with injuries. RELATED: Round 3: Cleveland Cavaliers (2) Vs. Atlanta Hawks (1) Schedule Irving, who has been dealing with a sprained right foot and left knee tendinitis, is basically […]

There is no question as to the impact that Timofey Mozgov has had on the Cavs since his acquisition in January. He has been the rim protector and defensive force that the team needed, and has provided energy with his play every night. He did solid work against the Bulls frontline, helping the Cavs to […]

It has been a long road throughout the playoffs with twists and turns for both teams in this year’s Eastern Conference Finals. For the Cavs obviously a smooth first round sweeping the Boston Celtics, but that didn’t come without sacrifice, losing one of their Big Three. The second round was a better test having to […]

With the top two teams in the East meeting up in the Eastern Conference Finals starting Wednesday night, all eyes are on the small forward matchup between LeBron James and DeMarre Carroll. Both players have been healthy for most of the season, and both have tremendously stepped up their games from the regular season to […]

The Cav’s season, regardless of how well the team performed on its way to the 2nd seed in the east, had a few laughable moments during the regular season. Although these are probably forgetable moments for the players, us fans can get a good laugh out of them. 10. LeBron Reaction To Kyrie’s Circus Shot […]

The Cleveland Cavaliers and Atlanta Hawks are two teams that love to do damage from beyond the arc. During the regular season, Cleveland ranked fourth in threes made and second in threes attempted while Atlanta was fourth in made threes and seventh in long distance attempts per game. At the forefront of their three-point barrage […]

The Cleveland Cavaliers eliminated the Chicago Bulls from playoff contention last Thursday night to advance to the Eastern Conference Finals. The Cavs and Bulls have been in an great rivalry for a good seven years now, starting with Joakim Noah’s smack talking ‘The Land’ and continuing with the in-game confrontation in the playoffs during LeBron’s […]

The Eastern Conference Finals promises to be a gigantic clash between the two best regular season teams in the East as the hobbling but still fighting Cleveland Cavaliers go up against the healthy and soaring Atlanta Hawks. We start our player comparisons with the head of the snake as Kyrie Irving and Jeff Teague figure […]

The Cleveland Cavaliers had a lot of question marks ahead when they tipped off their 2014-15 regular season. Sure, LeBron James made his epic return and the Cavs got Kevin Love, but would it be enough? We’ve found the biggest preseason criticisms and questions the Cavs were getting about their play at the start of […]

Kyrie Irving, who had been dealing with a sprained right foot and left knee tendinitis, didn’t practice on Saturday. The Cavs decided to give him a couple extra days of rest ahead of their Eastern Conference Finals matchup against the Atlanta Hawks starting Wednesday night. RELATED: Kyrie Irving (Ankle, Knee) Questionable For Game 1 Of […]

In Game Six of the Eastern Conference Semifinals between the Cleveland Cavaliers and Chicago Bulls, Matthew Dellavedova announced his arrival to the NBA playoff stage. With Kyrie Irving aggravating his knee in the first half, the Aussie Boomer picked up from where Irving left off as he finished with 19 points and three big three […]

No one can tell the future but everyone can try and take a guess. We make things interesting, and fun, by giving out our own 5-year forecast on every player in the Cleveland Cavaliers roster. Will LeBron James deliver on his promise to bring a ring to The Land? Will Kyrie Irving be the best […]

Kyrie Irving has been gutting out his first NBA playoffs unlike many others. At this stage of the year, every team is banged up and playing with nagging injuries, but cannot afford to sit out as their teams will make legitimate runs at the NBA Championship. Since Game 2 of the series against the Celtics, […]

“Hard work beats talent when talent fails to work hard.” The saying is already a cliche but still an undefeated one and that has been the story of Tristan Thompson’s young career so far. In the 2011 NBA draft, the Cleveland Cavaliers, devastated by the departure of LeBron James, found themselves in a rare situation […]