Here’s another contributor to the 1970s teams that made three consecutive playoff appearances, including reaching the 1976 Eastern Conference Finals.
Campy Russell was the second-leading scorer on that 1975-76 team and tallied a team-high 16.5 points per game for the 43-win squad the following season. He followed that up by scoring 19.4 points per game in 1977-78 and 21.9 points per contest while making the All-Star team in 1978-79, his age-27 season.
Russell only played one more season in Cleveland before heading to New York, where his play began to decline as a member of the Knicks.
He missed both the 1982-83 and 1983-84 seasons due to injury before appearing in three final games in a Cavs uniform at the start of the 1984-85 campaign.