Archive for March, 2010

On a night in which the Cavaliers handed out team Snuggies, the Cavaliers came out slow and went down as much as 21 points.  As Brian Windhorst described via Twitter following the first quarter, the Cavaliers defense was “Snuggle soft.” (LeBron made lone rookie Danny Green wear his personalized Snuggie during warm-ups on Friday night). LeBron and Co. picked up the pace in the second half and closed the gap to just a pair heading into the final period.  The comeback was somewhat muted when Detroit guard Rodney Stuckey had an apparent seizure on the bench during a timeout.  The [...]

Anything but a Royal Childhood     In December of 1984, an African-American boy was born into a single family home.  He lived in large Victorian style home on Hickory Street with his mother and his grandmother.  But when he was just three years old, the young boy’s grandmother passed away of a massive heart attack on Christmas morning.     Upon his grandmother’s death, the Hickory Street home became more and more difficult to maintain.  Eventually, “the city came in, served several eviction notices, and ultimately condemned it and bulldozed it to the ground.”  Between the ages of five and eight, the young [...]

There’s really not a whole lot to say about Wednesday night’s game.  It was all Cleveland from the get-go and it wasn’t particularly close after about five minutes into the first quarter. LeBron James used and abused the New Jersey defense (and offense) throughout the entire game and did so rather effortlessly.  LeKing high-stepped his way to 14 total assists on the night while pouring in 26 points to go along with 7 rebounds.  He threw down a vicious two handed slam in traffic about midway through the second quarter after disappointing the few Net fans in attendance on his [...]

Back in November, LeBron James threw out the idea of changing his number to 6 in order to honor the greatest basketball player of all time, Michael Jordan.  Like many other people, my first reaction was “Yeah, so what?”  Whether he’s wearing number 23 or number 6, TheBron is TheBron.  He’s still the best player in the NBA.  And he’s still the best player in the world. So why am I even bothering to write this up as big Cavaliers news?  Let me tell you. Following Cleveland’s royal beat down of the Knicks on Monday night, New York Daily News [...]

Wow! Talk about a royal beat down.  If not for a 34 point fourth quarter against Cleveland’s #8-12 players, the Knicks may have been held to less points for the game than the Cavs recorded in just one half of basketball. LeBron and Co. came out firing on all cylinders and jumped out to an early 38-26 lead after one quarter.  Similar totals in the second frame allowed Cleveland to take a 74-48 advantage at the half.  74 points! That ties the club’s season best for the 2009-10 season.  And the other time they scored 74 points this season came [...]

Tribe players have reported to Goodyear, Arizona for Spring Training as the season of America’s Pastime is just around the corner.  But before we get too amped up for Grady Sizemore and the crew, Monday night marks another day of Cavaliers basketball.     The New York Knickerbockers will be in town and will likely be trying to butter up to our King.  And that ain’t cool with me.  If the Knicks actually had a relatively decent team, I might hate them, their fans and their media knuckleheads more than I hate the Celtics.   But they don’t.  And that’s why Cleveland will [...]