Cleveland Cavaliers

Shaquille O'Neal has joined his Cleveland teammates -- and says he can help them win a title. Acquired in a trade last week with the Phoenix Suns, O'Neal was introduced Thursday as a Cavalier before cheering young fans at the team's suburban practice facility. The Cavaliers are hoping that...

ESPN The Magazines 2009 Ultimate Standings: Rankings of How Pro Sports Teams Pay Back Their Fans, is being released today and the Cavaliers were ranked as the #1 team in the NBA and the #5 team in pro sports.

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The Cleveland Cavaliers acquired the draft rights to forward Emir Preldzic, the 57th overall pick of the 2009 NBA Draft, from the Phoenix Suns in exchange for cash considerations.

On the heels of the Shaquille O'Neal deal, the Cavaliers picked up a pair of young guns in the 2009 NBA Draft: Christian Eyenga, an athletic youngster from the Congo in Round 1 and Danny Green, a four-year player from North Carolina at No. 46 overall.

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Cleveland Cavaliers star forward LeBron James arrives Monday night at the opening of SilverDocs Documentary Festival at American Film Institute's Silver Theatre for a screening of "More Than a Game," a film about James and members of high school basketball team.

The Cleveland Cavaliers say there is no truth to rumors that NBA Coach of the Year Mike Brown's job is in jeopardy.

Miami Heat president Pat Riley called a newspaper report linking him to the still-occupied Cleveland Cavaliers coaching job a "complete fabrication." In response to speculation in a New York Daily News blog post, Riley said, through a team spokesman, that he is "very happy where he is, a...

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SECAUCUS, NJ — LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers don't have to get to the NBA Finals for the playoffs to be a success, commissioner David Stern said Tuesday. Speaking hours before the NBA Draft Lottery, Stern downplayed the idea that having ...

Clevelanders, as you enjoy this run by LeBron James and the Cavaliers this season, take a moment to remember a man somewhat forgotten in the annals of Cleveland sports history... by Steve Tater 30 reads Sports Clevelanders, as you enjoy this run by LeBron James and the Cavaliers this season,...

Anybody who doubted that the Cavs would play well in game one because they haven't played in an actual game in over a week, were wrong... Cavaliers-Hawks: Cavs Win Game One with Ease, 99-72 by Johnny Russo 21 reads Game Recap Anybody who doubted that the Cavs would play well in game one because t...

New York Daily News  IL What can be said about the Cleveland-Detroit series? How about this: the Cavaliers look like they want to represent the Eastern Conference in the NBA Finals and the Pistons look like they want the season to be over. Cleveland played sloppily in Game 2, ...

By TOM WITHERS • AP • April 21, 2009 INDEPENDENCE -- Joe Smith's hoops odyssey has spanned 14 years and bridged from Golden State to Cleveland with seven NBA stops in between. Cleveland Cavaliers' Joe Smith talks with reporters at the team's practice ...

DPA SPORTS Basketball NBA James, Cavs manhandle Mavs for milestone 60th win By Paul Levine, dpa?? = ?? Los Angeles (dpa) - The Cleveland Cavaliers turned 60 on Sunday, but aren't showing any signs of slowing down. ?? MVP front-runner LeBron James had 24 points with 12 assists before sittin...

Boston (50-17) is 3 1/2 games behind Cleveland for the top spot in the Eastern Conference, but a 6-5 stretch without Garnett (sprained right knee) has hurt its chances of catching the Cavaliers. Garnett isn't expected to return until Friday night ...

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By Coach Samuel LeBron James- Cleveland Cavaliers OJ Mayo - Memphis Grizzlies Coach of the Year Mike Woodson - Atlanta Hawks Zach Randolph - Los Angeles Clippers Jason Terry - Dallas Mavericks Other candidates: Nate Robinson, JR Smith, James Posey, and Joel Przybilla.

By Michael Tiedemann I realize that LeBron James, a few of the Celtics, Chris Paul and Kobe Bryant will get the majority of MVP votes this year. Sure, the Cavaliers may be the worst team in the NBA without James, but Billups at least deserves some of the votes. Right?

By Kelly Dwyer Detroit at Charlotte? Gimmicky, and likely overwrought. A reeling Pistons team, Larry Brown against his old squad, gag me. Plus, lots of Aaron Aaarrronn Arron Afflalo. Nobody wants that. So what's left, on the last non-election day of the free NBA League Pass? A hoop junkie's delight ... Memphi...

By David Friedman(noreply@blogger.com) As usual, the Cavs did a good job on the boards, outrebounding the Celtics 41-36, and the Cavs also played very well defensively, particularly in the first half when they held Boston to 41% field goal shooting (the Celtics shot 44.6% from the field overall). Zydrunas Ilgauskas contributed 15 points and eight rebounds and Anderson Varejao scored nine points and grabbed a game-high nine rebounds. In his first regular season game as a Cav, Mo Williams scored 12 points and passed for two assists but he had five fouls and four turnovers. Garnett split a pair of free throws after Ilgauskas committed a loose ball foul and on the ensuing possession the Cavs ran a much better offensive set: Varejao set a great screen for Williams, who buried a three poi...   [read the full post]

By Tom Ziller Ziller: Boston seems to be a favorite in most corners, with Cleveland receiving top contender status. Is Cleveland the best contender to dethrone the Celtics? What about the Pistons? Or will one of the big movers (Philadelphia, Toronto) rise up?

By David Friedman In my Cavs-Wizards series preview article for CavsNews.com, I predicted that this series would start out 2-2 before the Cavs prevail in six games. I said that the keys for the Cavs, as always, are the brilliance of LeBron James supplemented by team defense and rebounding, while the Wizards must focus on teamwork and ball movement on offense while limiting James to near his average on defense, thus forcing other Cavs to perform very well. I also predicted that--contrary to all suggestions from the Wizards--Arenas would rejoin the starting lineup, most likely in game three. So far, the series has played out according to the script that I described. The Cavaliers stayed true to their recipe for success in the first two games while at the same ti...   [read the full post]

By David Friedman The Washington Wizards talked trash, delivered hard fouls and muscled their way to an 11 point first half lead--but the Cleveland Cavaliers had the last word because they have LeBron James and the Wizards don't. James scored a game-high 32 points on 12-19 field goal shooting, leading the Cavs to a 93-86 game one victory at Quicken Loans Arena. James also had six rebounds, four assists and just one turnover. The Cavaliers' three part recipe for success is defense, rebounding and James' brilliance. Cleveland enjoyed a slim 43-42 rebounding edge and neither team shot well from the field so James proved to be the difference, as he did several times when these teams met in the playoffs in 2006 and 2007. Zydrunas Ilgauskas had a strong game (22 poin...   [read the full post]

By David Friedman Last season, the Cleveland Cavaliers eliminated the Detroit Pistons in the Eastern Conference Finals by relying on excellent team defense, strong rebounding and the brilliant all-around play of LeBron James. Several of the faces have changed in Cleveland--and things have not always gone smoothly since the big trade--but that tried and tested formula resulted in an 89-73 home victory over Detroit on Wednesday night. James did his part with 30 points, seven rebounds and six assists, shooting 11-19 from the field and producing a +15 plus/minus rating while playing a team-high 41 minutes. The Cavaliers outrebounded the Pistons 46-39. Ben Wallace and Zydrunas Ilgauskas each had eight rebounds and Anderson Varejao added six rebounds o...   [read the full post]

By David Friedman LeBron James posted his seventh triple double of the season (24 points, 11 assists, 10 rebounds) as the Cleveland Cavaliers overcame a 13 point first half deficit to defeat the Portland Trail Blazers 88-80 at Quicken Loans Arena. With starting center Zydrunas Ilgauskas sidelined by a back injury, the Cavaliers needed their other bigs to pick up the slack offensively, defensively and on the glass. Joe Smith finished with 18 points, five rebounds and a game-high plus/minus rating of +13. Anderson Varejao scored a season-high 16 points while also grabbing nine rebounds. Ben Wallace started at center but had five rebounds and no points in less than 16 first half minutes; at halftime, the team announced that he had back spasms and would not re...   [read the full post]

By David Friedman The Cleveland Cavaliers and Chicago Bulls recently took part in one of the largest trades in NBA history but Cleveland's 95-86 home victory over Chicago on Sunday once again showed that the biggest difference between the squads is one player who was not dealt: LeBron James had 37 points, six rebounds and six assists, including six points and one assist in the final 3:10. Former Cav Larry Hughes led the Bulls in scoring (23 points) and assists (four) while also grabbing five rebounds. Former Cav Drew Gooden also had a good game (11 points, 10 rebounds). Newly acquired Cav Wally Szczerbiak, who arrived in Cleveland from Seattle along with Delonte West as part of the Cleveland-Chicago trade, was the only Cav other than James to reach double fi...   [read the full post]

By Eric Williams Ex-Sonics Wally Szczerbiak and Delonte West saw their first time for Cleveland tonight, as the Cavaliers defeated Memphis 109-89. Szczerbiak finished with 10 points on 4-of-10 shooting from the field and two rebounds in 32 minutes. Szczerbiak had this to say to the media on Saturday

By Ryan Jones For the rest of our season previews, click here. Raise your hand if you think the Cleveland Cavaliers’ run to the 2007 NBA Finals provides a clear sense of how good this team is and where it stands among the Eastern Conference hierarchy.

By Chris McVetta Buy, hey, just like the refs on LeBron James in this series: I’m not crying foul. And the Cleveland Cavaliers (or their fans) have nothing to be ashamed about either - these NBA playoff “newbies” lost to a superior Spurs team that is quickly becoming the New England Patriots of the basketbal...

Signs all around Cleveland implore the Cavaliers to Rise Up the teams motto this postseason. If the Cavaliers are going to win their first championship, theyll have to rise up farther than any NBA team has ever done.

By David Friedman Anyone who expected the Detroit Pistons to make short work of the Cleveland Cavaliers was seriously mistaken. The Cavaliers' 91-87 Game Four victory tied the Eastern Conference Finals at 2-2. Last year's second round matchup between these teams also was tied after four games, with each team "protecting" its home court. Detroit is the deeper and more experienced team but Cleveland has far and away the best player on either squad, LeBron James, and he was fantastic on Tuesday night, finishing with 25 points, 11 assists and seven rebounds. He did much of his damage in the fourth quarter with the game up for grabs, producing 13 points, four rebounds and three assists while shooting 4-6 from the field and 5-5 from the free throw line. Daniel Gibso...   [read the full post]

Players and coaches from the Cavaliers and Pistons talk to the media after Game 1.

By danandbill@bouyahradio.com (Dan and Bill) In Show #21 Dan and Bill congratulate the Cleveland Cavaliers on advancing to the Eastern Conference Finals for the first time in 15 years and to a rematch with the hated Piss-ons...er Pistons. Pesky Typos! A look at the potential of the 2007 Cleveland Browns draft class is made and some questi...

The New Jersey Nets can either start rebounding with the Cleveland Cavaliers or they can pack their bags and go home.

LeBron James scored 25 of his 36 points in the second half and the Cavaliers, drawing from tough lessons learned in last years playoffs, beat the New Jersey Nets 10292.

LeBron James stuffy nose was nothing compared to the congestion New Jersey dealt with.

This years sweep of the Washington Wizards? Thats simply what the Cavaliers were supposed to do

By David Friedman Cleveland jumped on Milwaukee from the opening tip, building a 26-11 lead less than six minutes into the game. It seemed like the Cavaliers would cruise to victory against a team that, as Kenny Smith would put it, had one foot on the basketball court and one foot in Acapulco. Instead, Ruben Patterson scored 10 first quarter points on 4-5 field goal shooting and the Bucks pulled to within 31-22 by the end of the period. It was Boykins' turn to shine in the second quarter and the 5-5 guard who briefly played for Cleveland several years ago shot 5-6 from the field and scored 10 points as the Bucks rallied to take a 47-46 lead before the Cavaliers closed the half with an 8-4 run--three James baskets plus an Anderson Varejao dunk off of an assist by James.   [read the full post]

By danandbill@bouyahradio.com (Dan and Bill) In show #18 Dan and Bill give their thoughts to the Cleveland sports year that was 2006 and look ahead to what we hope 2007 will bring. We call out some NFL players who want to coast to the end of the season...as well as some OTHER Cleveland sports talk podcasts who seem to have lost their enthusia...

By danandbill@bouyahradio.com (Dan and Bill) In show #15 Dan and Bill recap the events in Browns town the last 3 weeks, what they hope to see the remainder of the season, and discuss why we can NOT just gut this team and this coaching staff as certain radio personalities in this town would like us to see happen. Their final thoughts on the 20...

Dan Gilbert's generosity only goes so far. Cavaliers team lawyers contacted the Seattle SuperSonics this week to ask them to stop using former Cavs interim coach Brendan Malone as a consultant and the Sonics have complied. Malone, whose son, Michael, is currently an assistant under Cavs...