Cleveland Cavaliers

Most are in agreement that if the Cavs had a healthy unit, they would’ve won the title last season rather than the Warriors. But the fact remains: the Cavs didn’t win and they really need to win one while LeBron James is still young enough and good enough. And it sounds like he’s well aware [...]

It’s finally over. For real this time. After months of rumors and speculation and recycled reports reiterating that the Cleveland Cavaliers and Tristan Thompson were at a contractual impasse, the two sides hammered out a five-year, $82 million deal. Chris Haynes of Northeast Ohio Media Group was the first to relay the news: #Cavs, Tristan [...]

Breathe easily, and freely, Cleveland Cavaliers fans. LeBron James will be in uniform when his team opens up the 2015-16 regular season next Tuesday in a road tilt against the Chicago Bulls. If you didn’t know his status was maybe, quite possibly in doubt, well, where the hell have you been? According to the Akron [...]

The Chicago Bulls will begin their 2015-16 campaign on Tuesday, October 27. And they may not have Derrick Rose in the lineup. Rose is still recovering from a fractured left orbital, and the timetable behind his return is not conducive to an opening night appearance. As Bulls head coach Fred Hoiberg told reporters, per ESPN.com’s [...]

LeBron James has a message for Tristan Thompson and the Cleveland Cavaliers. Hurry up. James caused quite a stir on Saturday night when he posted a picture of himself and Thompson at the wedding of a mutual friend with the caption “Get it done!!!!” Some interpreted the picture as him trying to play general manager [...]

I grew up amidst the basketball eras of Magic, Bird, and Jordan, when finding a great European player in the NBA was about as rare as the L.A. Clippers making a good draft selection or the playoffs for that matter. I grew up in a time where the Lakers Vlade Divac was literally considered the [...]

Thompson’s months-long standoff with the Cleveland Cavaliers is truly shocking. Want to know why? Because of LeBron James. It’s not that Thompson is so valuable the Cavaliers should have bent to his max-contract demands already. It’s not that Cleveland is playing hard ball, when it’s not as if it can take the money allocated for [...]

Tristan Thompson and the Cleveland Cavaliers are still at an impasse. Various reports had the two sides hammering out an agreement, or a would-definitely-be agreement, at the start of free agency. No big deal. Thompson’s restricted free agency has always been considered something of a formality. He was never expected to test the market, and [...]

LeBron James doesn’t give two flying brown-colored bowel movements that NBA training camps aren’t quite ready to open. His Cleveland Cavaliers are getting work in now. Or soon. According to Northeast Ohio Media Group’s Chris Haynes, LeBron isn’t quite over Cleveland’s loss to the Golden State Warriors in last June’s NBA Finals and has “summoned” [...]

The J.R. Smith era will continue in Cleveland. Smith has been twisting in the wind after opting out of the last year of his previous deal, leaving roughly $6.4 million on the table. Though there have been reports that he’s fielded lucrative offers from other teams while also keeping in contact with the Cavaliers, the [...]