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You can find all of today’s top plays and highlights at the bottom of the page After more than a week of wait, the NBA Finals tipped off in Oracle Arena as the Cleveland Cavaliers and Golden State Warriors clashed to draw first blood in their best of seven series. The Warriors welcomed back Klay […]

Kyrie Irving allows Curry to get in front of him on his way to the basket because he thinks he has help on the strong side. With no help, Irving comes from behind and swats Curry’s shot off the backboard and saves a sure layup from going in. RELATED: Kyrie Irving Irving’s Best Crossovers Of […]

LeBron recieves the pass and sends a pass to the cutting Mozgov for the poster dunk on Draymond Green RELATED: Top 10 Alley Oop Dunks of 2014-15 Season

Kyrie Irving defends Curry well and stuffs the MVP’s driving shot attempt. RELATED: 10 Things You Didn’t Know About Kyrie Irving

Kyrie Irving shows no ill effects from his bad knee, crossing over and finishing at the rim. RELATED: Kyrie Irving Irving’s Best Crossovers Of The Year

Kyrie Irving takes the pass from Timofey Mozgov and then sets him up with a beautiful alley-oop finish! RELATED: Top 10 Alley Oop Dunks of 2014-15 Season

Winning an NBA championship is the ultimate goal for every single team at the start of the playoffs. And if you are fortunate enough and good enough to get to the Finals, you must be effective. Every player on both teams needs to play their best basketball. In this years Finals there are numerous matchups […]

The NBA Finals are finally here, and your Cleveland Cavaliers will take on the Golden State Warriors tonight starting at 9PM EST/ 6PM PT. Cleveland’s young, but also experienced squad will take on the team with arguably the best home-court advantage in the NBA in the Warriors. However, no one on this Warriors’ squad has […]

Stephen Curry, by almost all accounts, is an unsolvable problem for the Cleveland Cavaliers. NBA legends have called him the best shooter ever, the dominant western conference has struggled to contain him, and he is the MVP of the league on a historically successful Golden State Warriors team. He both handles the ball and sprints […]

The Cleveland Cavaliers are in the midst of their second ever NBA Finals and have the tough task of defeating the Golden State Warriors for the NBA Championship. LeBron James, for one, always shuts down social media during the playoffs. Others like J.R. Smith continue to engage in Twitter and Instagram, but still keep their […]

Tristan Thompson has been the biggest presence around the glass for the Cavs this postseason. The big man is averaging nearly a double-double with 9.9 rebounds and 9.4 points per game. Add the stats to his tremendous offensive rebounding ability as well as his interior post defense, and you can tell why he is a […]

With the weight of the NBA’s most patient fans on his shoulders, LeBron James has to avoid drowning in his hometown’s half-century thirst of a championship. Thus far, the King has led his the Cavaliers to 12 impressive playoff victories in a postseason-low 14 games. Now in his fifth consecutive Finals showing, James is leading […]

The LeBron James vs Michael Jordan discussion will always come up. Right now there is no real answer to the question of who is a better overall player. But whether or not LeBron will be the greatest ever when his career is over is obvious, he will be. Some may disagree but that is only […]

These NBA Finals marks the first year since the beginning of the “The Association” that two first year coaches will face off. With David Blatt and Steve Kerr leading the Cavaliers and Warriors respectively to the Finals, it is safe to assume that both coaches adapted to their new venues rather quickly. Despite both coaches […]

The NBA Finals is where legends are made and over the years, we have witnessed historical efforts from the game’s best collection of talent. These are the performances that served as the ultimate highlight to the final stage of a grueling season of competition. It was a difficult task because of the multitude of classics […]

The Warriors got very lucky with their first round pick in 2011. Klay Thompson made the all-star team this season, fresh off a 5 year $80 million extension signed over the summer. J.R. Smith and Iman Shumpert both came to the Cavs from the Knicks in January, and immediately found important roles for the LeBron-led […]

Kyrie Irving will have his hands full against Stephen Curry. Curry is a more explosive, quick shooting version of Derrick Rose, who Kyrie had trouble keeping up with in the Eastern Semifinals. Add on Kyrie’s injury, and it seems like David Blatt will put Iman Shumpert on Curry when he can to allow Kyrie to […]

Everyone loves an underdog and the NBA Finals has provided us with a fair share of inspiring moments throughout the years. It’s not a long list as, most of the time, the level of competition at this stage evens up with the Beast of the East going up against the Best of the West. But […]

Kyrie Irving and the Cleveland Cavaliers have had about six days off since defeating the Atlanta Hawks in Game 4 and capturing the Eastern Conference Championship last Tuesday. Irving has been limited throughout all of the practices, but according to David Blatt, Irving’s injuries to his foot and knee are not improving well enough. David […]

Matthew Dellavedova has had one hell of a 2015 playoff run. Probably the the most unexpected impact player for the Cavs, Delly has made himself a household name and is now a crowd favorite in Cleveland. For the first time ever in NBA history, two Australians will go head-to-head in the NBA Finals as the […]

David Blatt has been around basketball his entire life. The American Jewish coach coached all over Europe, but has spent the majority of his time both playing and coaching in the country of Israel. He was a player for 12 years and has been a coach since 1993 for teams in Israel, Russia, and Greece. […]

The Golden State Warriors defeated the Houston Rockets to set up a matchup of MVP’s. LeBron James vs. Stephen Curry. In what should be one the greatest NBA Finals showdowns in recent history, Cleveland who’s on a 51 year professional championship drought, will take on the Warriors from Oakland, a city that hasn’t won a […]

After Kevin Love’s shoulder was pulled out of its socket, he believed Kelly Olynyk did it on purpose, calling it a “bush-league play.” A few days later, it was announced that Kevin Love would undergo season-ending surgery on his shoulder and miss the remainder of the postseason. He would also be out a total of […]

After suffering a season-ending shoulder injury in the first round of the NBA Playoffs, Kevin Love met with members of the media for the first time since his shoulder surgery. Kevin Love speaking to the media for the first time since his season-ending shoulder surgery. pic.twitter.com/n1KWL8wAfG — Dave McMenamin (@mcten) May 31, 2015 In his […]

Kendrick Perkins has won a championship as a starting center with the Boston Celtics back in 2008. But his role now is far from a starter’s workload. Perkins has appeared in just seven games in the 2015 playoffs out of a possible 14. He’s also playing just 4.2 minutes per game 1.1 points and 1.1 […]

Despite the way injuries have threatened the fate of the Cleveland Cavaliers this postseason, they are still on track of attaining what they set to accomplish from day one. Sans Kevin Love and Kyrie Irving, Cleveland is grinding their way to a possible NBA Finals appearance on the iffy back of LeBron James. Sounds familiar, […]

The NBA has a huge fanbase all over the world, and current celebrities are by no means exempt. In fact, Cleveland has one of the biggest celebrity fanbases in the nation, which is huge considering that it’s in a small market. We look at the top 10 celebrity fans of the Cleveland Cavaliers, starting with […]

Early Friday afternoon, rumors surfaced that Cavs power forward/center Anderson Varejao could return to the court and make an appearance in the NBA Finals in the case of an emergency. The source behind was, of course, Brian Windhorst of ESPN. Brian Windhorst says the Cavaliers will have Anderson Varejao's jersey out in Oakland in the […]

In October we all had visions of the Cavaliers winning an NBA title with the big 3 hoisting the Larry O’Brien trophy on stage. Boy, has that vision changed. Not because the Cavs title hopes have diminished, but because Kevin Love will not be involved throughout the late title run. Love suffered a dislocated shoulder […]

The Cleveland Cavaliers are now the Eastern Conference Champion for the second time in team history but the road that the Cavs had to take involved a lot of make or break twists which eventually played into the WIne and Gold’s favor. Consistency was definitely not the key in this occasion as Cleveland saw itself […]

Dwyane Wade has been a member of the Miami Heat since his drafting in 2003. His name has never been mentioned in a trade, and him possibly wanting to leave via free agency back in 2010 to Chicago was a far cry from the truth. Thursday afternoon, however, it was made known that Dwyane Wade […]

With the NBA off for eight days, the highlight of the day on Thursday night was the 2015 Scripps National Spelling Bee. In a back and forth effort, 13-year old Vanya Shivashankar of Olathe, Kansas and 14-year old Gokul Venkatachalam of Chesterfield, Missouri could not break away from one another and ended up as co-champions […]

The anticipation builds up as we await the start of the NBA Finals matchup between two title hungry franchises in the Cleveland Cavaliers and Golden State Warriors. Aside from being the best regular season team this year, the Warriors have also managed to stay relatively healthy during the playoffs but the injury-plagued Cavaliers are not […]

It seems that despite the troubled past between the city of Cleveland and Charles Barkley, things are finally starting to warm up for Barkley. Before Game 3 of the Eastern Conference Finals, Barkley has asked what if he’s liking Cleveland more than Bulls center Joakim Noah. His response surprised many. RELATED: Greatest LeBron James Player […]

When the Cavs drafted Andrew Wiggins with the first pick in the 2014 NBA draft, they were prepared to build their franchise around him and Kyrie Irving. They had no idea that LeBron James would want to return home. LeBron changed everything. The Cavs knew that LeBron wanted to win, now, so they packaged the […]

Detroit Pistons legendary big man Bill Laimbeer, mostly known for his extremely physical play in the 1980’s and early 90’s, had many battles with another fellow legend in Michael Jordan. Now a coach for the WNBA’s New York Liberty, Laimbeer visited the Dan Patrick show Thursday morning and got right to the point when asked […]

Could anyone ever be like Mike? Do championship rings mean everything? Will there ever be a player as clutch as him? Those are some of the sub-questions that are brought up after you ask the main one: LeBron James or Michael Jordan? The debate has been going since LeBron came into the league. It continued […]

Despite being arguably the best basketball player in the world right now, many critics of LeBron James say that he does not stack up against the greats to ever play the game (e.g. Michael Jordan, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Kobe Bryant, Bill Russel, etc.). Others say that according to his current pace and performance through 12 seasons, […]

If you don’t already know about famed Bay Area rapper “Lil B. The Based God,” here’s a little inside scoop on him. He’s a huge Warriors fan and credits himself with starting the ‘flick of the wrist’ dance/symbol/hand movement. Kevin Durant attempted to listen to the rapper’s music, but said he couldn’t believe Lil B […]