Cleveland Cavaliers

LeBron James is not happy with the Cleveland Cavaliers’ performance. It doesn’t matter that they own the Eastern Conference’s best record despite a banged-up roster. And it most certainly doesn’t matter that their outlook only seems brighter when you factor in the eventual return of All-Star Kyrie Irving, who has yet to play this season. [...]

Some NBA players cannot come to grips with their age, let alone the limitations that come as a result of that age. (Shout-out, Kobe Bryant.) LeBron James, though, is not one of those players. As he approaches his 31st birthday (December 30), he has never been more accepting, or more obvious about accepting, that he [...]

Come one, come all, you’re just in time to take part in the first NBA power rankings of the holiday season! This is big stuff, I know, so we’ll get right to it. A lot is happening now that the 2015-16 season is hitting its stride. The Warriors are still the Warriors; the Pacers are [...]

The Cleveland Cavaliers started the season without star point guard Kyrie Irving and top reserve Iman Shumpert, but the roster can’t escape injuries. Fortunately for the team, the upcoming schedule favors the Cavs. On Friday, the franchise announced center Timofey Mozgov (shoulder) and point guard Mo Williams (ankle) will be sidelined for two weeks and [...]

For a short while on Thursday night, it looked like the Golden State Warriors, trailing by as many as 23 points to the Los Angeles Clippers, were going to lose. They didn’t lose. They fought back. They flew around on the offensive end in the second half. Stephen Curry went off. Andre Iguodala hit big [...]

About that rift between LeBron James and Cleveland Cavaliers head coach David Blatt… It doesn’t exist. Not right now at least. The relationship between the two has been described as tenuous at best over the last year-plus. David Blatt was new to the NBA coaching scene last season, assuming control of a team that was [...]

Is runner-up fatigue a thing? LeBron James sure thinks so. Championship fatigue is a more accepted phenomenon. It’s when reigning NBA champions struggle to find inspiration and drive and the motivation to play at full tilt every night following their title-toting campaign the year before. Health plays a part too, since extensive postseason pushes take [...]

Kyrie Irving isn’t OK with people who aren’t OK with his injury history. The Cleveland Cavaliers point guard has yet to play this season as he continues to recover from a fractured kneecap that he suffered in Game 1 of the NBA Finals. Beyond that, the 23-year-old has dealt with more than his fair share [...]

It seems that someone forgot to tell the Houston Rockets that the NBA’s 2015-16 regular season is underway. The early part of 2015-16 has no doubt been weird. Some of the usual juggernauts are juggernauting, but this year’s landscape is rife with early-season underachievers, the fast-plummeting Rockets being among them. Can Houston regain its 2014-15 [...]

Life is, by all appearances, good for the Cleveland Cavaliers. They are winners of seven straight leading into Friday night’s bout with the New York Knicks and own the Eastern Conference’s best record. LeBron James is playing defense like it’s 2010 and balling out on offense when he feels like it. (Though, I must ask, [...]