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  The Golden State Warriors defeated the Cleveland Cavaliers on Tuesday night to win their first NBA Championship in 40 years. The Bay Area celebrated and the Warriors players were beside themselves as the young crew was ready to get the party started. RELATED: 10 Records LeBron James Can Break By His Retirement The Warriors […]

Sometime in January, it was reported that Tristan Thompson slammed the door on a four-year deal worth $52 million. Many, including myself, were dumbfounded over that decision as Thompson was a back-up power forward averaging around 9 points and 7 rebounds per game for Cleveland at that time. To put it in perspective, other more […]

The Cleveland Cavaliers have been through a roller coaster of a first season with a new head coach and with LeBron James back. Every player, coach, and manager had a tough job this season, but the toughest job of the season was easily the one of the head coach, David Blatt. Blatt has been under […]

  The NBA season may be over, but that means the big free agency summer of 2015 is set to begin. Teams have already made some trades to acquire room to sign a free agent, but many others are still looking to score big. The Cleveland Cavaliers season ending in heartbreaking defeat as they fell […]

  Another season has come to a close and despite losing in the NBA Finals, the not so distant future for the Cleveland Cavaliers has never been this bright. The team will be marching towards their 2015-2016 campaign with absolute confidence because they are expected to parade a healthier, wiser, and more cohesive group. As […]

  This summer of 2015 is going to expected to be quite the noisy one! Not only are the Cavs going to be actively involved in resigning their own free agents, but there are some big name players out there expected to be available. RELATED: Cleveland Cavaliers Open Up As Favorites For 2016 NBA Championship […]

  Kendrick Perkins has seen and played with the best of the best in the NBA. Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett in Boston, Russell Westbrook and Kevin Durant in Oklahoma City, and now LeBron James in Cleveland. In his years with those teams, Perkins has also been lucky enough to get to two NBA Finals […]

  Any team that has LeBron James is a championship contender. Unfortunately for the Cavs, they fell just two victories short of ending the city’s 51-year championship drought in the 2015 NBA Finals. RELATED: 8 Records LeBron James Has Broken This Season Despite the tough loss, the Westgate Las Vegas Superbook still has the Cleveland […]

  You can find all of today’s top plays and highlights at the bottom of the page The Cleveland Cavaliers played their hearts out in Game 6 of the NBA Finals, but were unable to force a Game 7 back in Oracle Arena. Instead, the Warriors celebrated their first NBA Championship in 40 years in […]

  With the second quarter winding down, LeBron drives but can’t connect on the fadeaway, but Thompson comes out of nowhere to grab the board and putback the nasty dunk on Draymond Green RELATED: 15 Things You Didn’t Know About Tristan Thompson

  Timofey Mozgov, who played just nine minutes in Game 5, comes up with three huge blocks in the second quarter alone! RELATED: Trade Grade: 5 Reasons Timofey Mozgov Was Worth The Picks

  LeBron James gets the ball in the deep corner with the shot clock winding down. He takes a jab steps, dribbles towards the corner, and shoots a corner three that goes down! RELATED: Craziest Playoff Moments From LeBron James’ Career

  With the Cleveland Cavaliers on the brink of a fourth Finals defeat at the hands of the Golden State Warriors, LeBron James and David Blatt are faced with the gargantuan task of rallying the rest of the Wine and Gold troops for a colossal run that will show how far does going “all in” […]

  In the 2012 Finals, the NBA world witnessed the two best overall players go head-to-head in a series that could easily have been one of the best of all time. LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, and Chris Bosh vs. Kevin Durant, Russell Westbrook, and James Harden. As LeBron arrived at the top of the list […]

  The Cleveland Cavaliers and Golden State Warriors are in a dogfight in these NBA Finals, with Game 6 of the series tonight in Cleveland. The Cavs will try to stave off elimination at home tonight to force one final matchup, a Game 7, back at Oracle Arena for the NBA Championship. This playoff series […]

  The Cleveland Cavaliers came into the NBA Finals beyond shorthanded having lost their starting power forward in Kevin Love to a season-ending shoulder injury from the first round of the playoffs. In addition to that, Kyrie Irving was constantly bothered by tendinitis in his left knee, but was reportedly feeling good enough going into […]

The Cleveland Cavaliers got run out of the building during the fourth quarter of Game 5 of the NBA Finals. LeBron James did the best he could trying to run the show for the Cavs, but it wasn’t enough down the stretch and the Warriors used a late fourth quarter run to outplay Cleveland and […]

You can find all of today’s top plays and highlights at the bottom of the page   With a chance to push the Golden State Warriors to elimination back at the Q with a Game 5 victory, the Cleveland Cavaliers wasted a brilliant triple double performance from LeBron James and failed to get their second […]

LeBron James and Stephen Curry exchange shots from downtown in the fourth quarter.   RELATED: Craziest Playoff Moments From LeBron James’ Career

J.R. Smith, after struggling in the first four games, has come to play in the first half of this pivotal Game 5 of the NBA Finals.   RELATED: Top 10 J.R. Smith Fashion Statements

After winning Game Four in Cleveland, the Golden State Warriors have managed to take back home court advantage and turn the finals into a best of three series against the Cleveland Cavaliers. The key to winning has never been clearer for both teams. The Dubs relied on their “strength in numbers” mantra as Steve Kerr […]

  The Cleveland Cavaliers fell in Game 5 of the NBA Finals and are now on the brink of elimination with Game 6 back at home on Tuesday night. This series, with the exception of Game 4, has been relatively close. The Cavs just got away from their game plan and ran out of gas. […]

Not only did Cavs lose Game 4 by 21 points, they looked flat-out exhausted with Matthew Dellavedova and LeBron James having issues with cramps during the game. This was their third game in five days and as David Blatt agreed, it seemed to have an impact on them. To make things worse, the Warriors game […]

This year’s NBA Finals has been a roller coaster thus far. The first two games in Golden State went into overtime and had dramatic finishes. Game 3 looked to be a blowout by the Cavs until the Warriors found their footing and almost came back. And Game 4 looked to be the game where LeBron […]

After a disappointing Game 4 loss against the Golden State Warriors, some Cavs fans are freaking out about the series, deeming that the Cavs have lost. They haven’t yet, with the series tied 2-2, and here are five reasons why Cavs fans should still have hope in the Cleveland Cavaliers winning the championship. 5. Lineup […]

The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon has a bunch of talented writers that have helped make the show a huge success. On Thursday night, Fallon unveiled his NBA Finals edition of NBA Superlatives, where NBA players in the Finals will be judged on what they look like they’ll be when they grow up (based on […]

What makes a classic finals series? The storylines. The level of competition between the two teams. Elite players going at each other. Name it and the 2015 NBA Finals matchup between the Cleveland Cavaliers and Golden State Warriors has it. This moment has been decades in the making for both sides, 40 years for the […]

LeBron James has had an illustrious career with the lowest of lows in the NBA and the highest of highs in the Finals. After winning back-to-back championships and now back in Cleveland, James’ basketball career can now even be followed by the covers he’s been on for Sports Illustrated. We take a look at the […]

The city of Cleveland’s last professional sports title was in 1964, when the Cleveland Browns won the NFL Championship, now called the Super Bowl. A member of that team and longtime Clevelander Jim Brown was in attendance to witness the Cleveland Cavaliers’ first ever NBA Finals home victory on Tuesday. Before Game 3, LeBron James […]

Klay Thompson and Stephen Curry have had a rough NBA Finals against the Cleveland Cavaliers and their pesky wing defenders. Iman Shumpert has done a good job containing Klay Thompson for most of the series (Thompson did have a stellar 34 point outing in Game 2, but he was guarded by the small Delly half […]

You can find all of today’s top plays and highlights at the bottom of the page The Cleveland Cavaliers gained home-court advantage with a Game 2 road victory in Oakland. With a chance to go up 3-1, the Cavs fell in Game 4 of the NBA Finals and gave home-court back to the Warriors. Golden […]

Tristan Thompson comes up with the steal and dishes to Delly to ignite the fastbreak. Delly fakes a pas to Thompson and alley oops it up to LeBron James for the throwdown. RELATED: Top 10 Alley Oop Dunks of 2014-15 Season

LeBron James drives baseline, and Andrew Bogut fouls him and sends him flying out of bounds. James’ head hits the baseline cameraman’s camera and starts bleeding. He dried and wiped his head and was able to remain in the game. RELATED: Top 5 Injuries And How They’ll Affect The Eastern Conference Playoffs

LeBron James catches a pass in the post from Matthew Dellavedova and immediately throws it over his head to Mozgov, who dunks it all by himself. RELATED: LeBron’s Top 10 Assists of the Season

The Cleveland Cavaliers defeated the Golden State Warriors in Game 3 of the NBA Finals on Tuesday night. With the Cavs taking a huge 2-1 series lead, check out some of the best reactions to the Game 3 victory on Twitter from athletes to former players to celebrities in these next six pages: On the […]

The NBA Finals are upon us again, and all game air on ABC. The television channel is also home to Jimmy Kimmel Live, the last night show that has a special Game Night edition after every Finals Game. RELATED: Top 10 Bloopers From 2014-15 Season   This 2015 NBA Finals, Kimmel sent his assistant Guillermo […]

These 2015 NBA Playoffs and Finals has seen the most unlikely hero emerge from Cleveland. That’s right, Australia’s own Matthew Dellavedova has sparked the Cleveland Cavaliers throughout the playoffs and into an unlikely 2-1 series lead in the NBA Finals against the league’s best Golden State Warriors. 10. Delly Shows Off Post-Game Dellavedova backs down […]

The Cleveland Cavaliers have a relatively young core, and just prior to the start of the NBA Finals, LeBron James arranged a team gathering at the team’s hotel in San Francisco. There James held a team dinner and talked to the team about the challenges ahead. “He was like, we’re here for business and to […]

The Cleveland Cavaliers stole home-court advantage from the Golden State Warriors with a Game 2 road victory in the NBA Finals. It was a huge win for the Cavs, a team that had never seen an NBA Finals victory and a huge loss for the Warriors, who had won 43 of the last 46 home […]