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The Cleveland Cavaliers had a lot of question marks ahead when they tipped off their 2014-15 regular season. Sure, LeBron James made his epic return and the Cavs got Kevin Love, but would it be enough? We’ve found the biggest preseason criticisms and questions the Cavs were getting about their play at the start of […]

Kyrie Irving, who had been dealing with a sprained right foot and left knee tendinitis, didn’t practice on Saturday. The Cavs decided to give him a couple extra days of rest ahead of their Eastern Conference Finals matchup against the Atlanta Hawks starting Wednesday night. RELATED: Kyrie Irving (Ankle, Knee) Questionable For Game 1 Of […]

In Game Six of the Eastern Conference Semifinals between the Cleveland Cavaliers and Chicago Bulls, Matthew Dellavedova announced his arrival to the NBA playoff stage. With Kyrie Irving aggravating his knee in the first half, the Aussie Boomer picked up from where Irving left off as he finished with 19 points and three big three […]

No one can tell the future but everyone can try and take a guess. We make things interesting, and fun, by giving out our own 5-year forecast on every player in the Cleveland Cavaliers roster. Will LeBron James deliver on his promise to bring a ring to The Land? Will Kyrie Irving be the best […]

Kyrie Irving has been gutting out his first NBA playoffs unlike many others. At this stage of the year, every team is banged up and playing with nagging injuries, but cannot afford to sit out as their teams will make legitimate runs at the NBA Championship. Since Game 2 of the series against the Celtics, […]

“Hard work beats talent when talent fails to work hard.” The saying is already a cliche but still an undefeated one and that has been the story of Tristan Thompson’s young career so far. In the 2011 NBA draft, the Cleveland Cavaliers, devastated by the departure of LeBron James, found themselves in a rare situation […]

Free agency is still a long ways to go but the market is already teeming with solid players that could potentially don Wine and Gold thread next season. The Cavaliers are already loaded with stars so another All Star add is no longer necessary so we identified 11 realistic possibilities involving quality role players that […]

Since entering the NBA, David Blatt has received immense amounts of criticism. Right out of the gate, the Cavs crawled out to a 5-7 record through 12 games, the most bizarre loss coming to a depleted Knicks lineup on opening night, spoiling LeBron James’ homecoming. However, it is important to note that while LeBron was […]

The Cleveland Cavaliers defeated the Chicago Bulls in Game 6 and officially eliminated them from playoff contention. The Cavs now advanced to their first Conference Finals since 2009. But it was no easy task. Cleveland had a rough start to this series, losing the first game at home and, in the process, home-court advantage. The […]

The Cleveland Cavaliers were welcomed to the NBA in the 1970 season. Since that season, the Cavs have worn a combined 32 different jerseys. We’re lucky enough to have one of the best color combo’s in the league, allowing our design staff to bring out a bunch of different jerseys every few years. While some […]

It’s official! Your Cleveland Cavaliers have made their first Conference Finals since 2009, and on Friday night, the Atlanta Hawks defeated the Washington Wizards by a couple of milliseconds, literally. The Hawks and Cavs will tip off the Eastern Conference Finals on Wednesday night in Atlanta. The Cavs will surely use these days off to […]

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Every team needs a rebounder. The Lakers had Shaq, the Rockets had Hakeem and the Spurs had Robinson. Rebounding is an area in which every coach focuses on. Defensively, it prevents second chance points, and offensively it allows you to restart your play and gives you 24 more seconds. Since his selection in the 2011 […]

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The Cleveland Cavaliers defeated the Chicago Bulls in Thursday night’s Game 6 on the road. It was an impressive victory that saw Kyrie Irving play just 12 minutes due to injury and LeBron James shoot just 7-23 from the field. Now that the Cavs have advanced to their first Conference Finals since 2009, we take […]

LeBron James and the Cavs fought in Game 6 against the Bulls, and despite losing Irving early in the second quarter and having James in foul trouble, were able to pull off the incredible victory on the road. “It’s over. This is…This is special, Our team being such a young team and being able to […]

Joakim Noah continues to do absolutely nothing against LeBron James. All talk is an understatement.

This is not basketball. The worst part? Chicago cheers when the Bulls make these plays.

Kyrie Irving dishes out to Jones, and awkwardly steps on teammate Tristan Thompson’s foot, causing him to fall to the ground in obvious pain. We’ll keep you updated on Irving’s injury. RELATED: Top 5 Injuries And How They’ll Affect The Eastern Conference Playoffs

Like so many other times this season, Matthew Dellavedova and Tristan Thompson execute the pick-and-roll to perfection. Thompson sets the screen, rolls, and Delly finds him for a acrobatic finish and the foul. Thompson landed hard, but bounced back up almost immediately. RELATED: Top 10 Alley Oop Dunks of 2014-15 Season

With the Cavaliers up 3-2 in the Eastern semi-conference finals against the Chicago Bulls, Cleveland was able to close Chicago out in Game 6 of Eastern Conference Semifinals. The Cavs have made so many personnel changes going into and during this season that anything short of a Finals appearance would be a failure. With that […]

The NBA has had some great players over the past couple of years, and they were some of the highest paid players in the league. Unfortunately, there are also those, who performed great for just a year or two before inking a large contract and playing at a low level due to age, injuries, or […]

Anyone who has followed the Eastern Conference semi-finals between the Cavs and Bulls can agree that injuries have had a huge impact on the games. Both sides have suffered game changing injuries. No one on the Cavs was forced to miss games except Kevin Love. On the other side, Pau Gasol has missed the past […]

Kyrie Irving started off the Cavaliers second round series against the Bulls with a bang. He scored 30 points to go along with two rebounds and six assists as the Cavs fell in Game 1. After scoring 21 points in the Game 2 victory, Irving’s production severely dropped off in Games 3 and 4, as […]

The NBA Playoffs is the time for great players to have great moments. Only half way through the 2015 playoffs we have seen extraordinary plays and performances. It is during this time of year that legends are made and history is written. No champion has been crowed yet, but here are the top 10 MVP’s […]

Christmas is more than seven months away from us. The 2015-16 season has yet to even be talked about with the 2015 Playoffs still going strong in May. But that doesn’t mean we can’t look ahead. Uni Watch’s Paul Lukas has reportedly obtained the Christmas Day designs from an inside source! The look is supposed […]

The Buckeye state has brought to Earth a number of NBA greats led by MVP winners LeBron James and Stephen Curry. These two standouts form the core of Cavs Nation`s all-time Ohio team which has turned out to be a very exciting combination of shooters, defensive players, and shot blockers. Imagine a Thurmond block or […]

Click “Next” at the bottom of this page for all of today’s top plays and highlights! The Cavs went with a bigger lineup to start the game, going with both Tristan Thompson and Timofey Mozgov, and starting Iman Shumpert and Kyrie Irving as the guards. The Cavs got off to a rough start, going down […]

LeBron James drives by Jimmy Butler, gets hit my Nikola Mirotic, hangs and hits for the and-1 opportunity. RELATED: Craziest Playoff Moments From LeBron James’ Career

J.R. Smith takes the Timofey Mozgov screen, fakes Joakim Noah out and dunks it all by himself! RELATED: Top 10 Greatest J.R. Smith Career Dunks

LeBron James catches the pass from Matthew Dellavedova, drives to the basket, and reverses it home. the play looked like something out of the book of Kyrie Irving RELATED: LeBron’s Best Playoff Moments Vs. Joakim Noah/ Chicago Bulls

Kyrie Irving dribbles the length of the court, around Derrick Rose, and finishes the impossible reverse layup. RELATED: Best Kyrie Irving Crossovers Of The 2014-15 Season

LeBron James picks off the Derrick Rose pass and dunks it all by himself on the other end. RELATED: VIDEO: LeBron James Dunks On Joakim Noah, Two Get Into Heated Conversation

Somehow, someway, the Cleveland Cavaliers have survived playing well below their potential to retain home-court advantage and their chances to advance to the Eastern Conference Finals. Despite everything, playoff history shows that if Cleveland wins Game 5, they have an 82 percent chance to win the series. That said, it is no easy feat to […]

After four grueling games wherein the previous two contests needed last second heroics from Derrick Rose and LeBron James respectively, the Eastern Conference Semifinals matchup between the Cleveland Cavaliers and Chicago Bulls is now down to a best-of-three series. Outside of Game 2, which was fairly lopsided in favor of the Cavaliers, each game displayed […]

Sunday’s Game 4 between the Cleveland Cavaliers and Chicago Bulls was quite the grind-it-out type game. Both teams scored a combined 170 points as Cleveland edged Chicago 86-84 in regulation. It wasn’t an easy victory, as the Cavs endured a foot sprain and left knee tendinitis from Kyrie Irving and a sprained ankle from Lebron […]

With both J.R. Smith and Kevin Love out for the first two games of the playoff series against the Chicago Bulls, Coach Blatt needed some alternative lineups to counter the Bulls tough starting group. For Game 1, Blatt went with a smaller starting rotation, moving LeBron at the power forward position and starting Iman Shumpert […]

Kyrie Irving has been visibly hobbled this postseason after the Cavs began their second-round matchup with the Chicago Bulls. After scoring 51 points on 15-32 shooting and nine assists in Games 1 and 2, Irving has scored just 23 points on 5-23 shooting with just two assists in Games 3 and 4. Cleveland was able […]

With 18.8 seconds remaining in the fourth quarter, the Cavs had to call not one, not two, but all three of their remaining timeouts just to inbound the basketball from inside of half-court. James Jones inbounded the ball to LeBron James with the Cavs leading 84-82. James proceeded to commit his second offensive foul in […]