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Dan Gilbert Offers To Trade Wayne County A New Jail For MLS Stadium Land
Dan Gilbert—Cavaliers owner, Comic Sans enthusiast, and predatory lending magnate—recently submitted a bid with Pistons owner Tom Gores (who he partnered with last year) for an MLS expansion team in Detroit. Part of that bid was the outline of a stadium plan. Gilbert and Gores don’t have a stadium d...

LeBron Says Carmelo-For-Love Trade Rumor Is "Trash," Reporter "Is Trash Too"
What do we know? We know Phil Jackson wants to move Carmelo Anthony before this month’s trade deadline. We know player/coach/GM LeBron James wants the Cavs to make a move to get better ahead of another title push. We know the Knicks are big on Kevin Love, even though a Love-for-Melo swap doesn’t rea...

The Wizards Are For Real
Take heart, D.C. fans. Sometimes the best basketball player alive is just gonna throw in a one-legged 25-foot turnaround fallaway jumper high off the glass to tie the game with 0.3 seconds left in regulation in your building. It happens! Or anyway, it happened....

Holy Shit, LeBron
LeBron James forced overtime against Washington with a shot that ranks among the most legendary in his career. Incredible....

Report: Jordan Farmar Floated To The Top Of The Toilet Bowl
On Wednesday, the Cleveland Cavaliers went about sorting through a bunch of crap in an attempt to find LeBron James a reliable playmaker who can come off the bench. The tryout was attended by the likes of Lance Stephenson, Kirk Hinrich, and Mario Chalmers, but according to ESPN’s Dave McMenamin, the...

LeBron Will Find His Extra Playmaker In The Toilet
The Cleveland Cavaliers lost again last night, to the shit-ass Dallas Mavericks, dropping to 7-8 in January. LeBron’s fed up! With Charles Barkley, for one thing, but also and more importantly, with not having any reliable playmakers on the bench who can take some pressure off of him and Kyrie Irvin...

Rob Manfred Has Started Meeting With Cleveland Ownership To Discuss Chief Wahoo
During the Cleveland Indians’ postseason run, MLB commissioner Rob Manfred hinted that he would speak to the team’s ownership about their horrifically racist logo during the offseason. Now, apparently, he’s followed through and begun that conversation—though the conversation appears to be totally de...

Report: LeBron James Wants The Cavaliers To Increase Payroll
LeBron James’s ongoing displeasure with the Cavaliers is apparently over what he perceives to be not enough spending on payroll by team owner Dan Gilbert, according to a report from Brian Windhorst. ...

The Cavaliers' Bad Week Just Got Worse
What’s a bad way for the Cleveland Cavaliers to follow up a 2-5 lull and a very public callout of the front office?...

Dan Gilbert Has Had It Up To Here With These Landlines That Won't Receive His Text Messages<em></em>
This weekend, the New York Times published an article on Dan Gilbert and his scam mortgage factory, Quicken Loans. It reads like a typical Times business article for the most part, but whenever it touches on Gilbert himself, he comes off as a paranoid business guy keen on digging up conspiracies aga...

What, Exactly, Does LeBron James Want From His Front Office?
The Cavs have dropped five of their last seven, and their king is heated. You might be too, if you were the linchpin of a defending champion, suddenly forced to log 44 minutes in mid-January just to lose to the Pelicans sans Anthony Davis. That’s a bleak scenario for the game’s best player....

Draymond Green: Actually, Yes, Cavs-Warriors Is A Rivalry
This is a silly thing to discuss, granted, but it is a long season and we need something to sustain us after the Warriors and Cavaliers met for the final time—until June, we hope and pray, at which time everything that’s been said by everyone on either time will be dredged up and injected into the m...

The Warriors Turned The Cavaliers To Ash
With three-and-a-half minutes remaining in the second quarter, LeBron James had his Cavaliers 14 points behind the Warriors. Cleveland recovered from their largest first quarter deficit of the season by slowing the game to a grind and stubbornly parking themselves at the free throw line. The Warrior...
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Mike Dunleavy Really Doesn't Want To Play For The Hawks [Update]
The Cleveland Cavaliers’ trade for Kyle Korver became official over the weekend, with the Cavs sending Mo Williams, Mike Dunleavy, and a future first-round pick to Atlanta in exchange for the sharpshooter. One person who is definitely not happy about this trade is Dunleavy....

Kyle Korver Is Officially A Cavalier
The Kyle Korver-to-Cleveland deal is official, two days after it was first reported—with the Cavaliers giving the Hawks Mike Dunleavy, Mo Williams and a future first round draft pick in exchange for the three-point specialist. ...

Report: Cavs Get Kyle Korver, Likely For Crap
The Cavaliers are doubling down on a team strength and adding one of the best floor spacers in the NBA. Per Adrian Wojnarowski, the Cavaliers are finalizing a trade for Atlanta Hawks three-point specialist Kyle Korver. It’s not clear who exactly the Cavs will give up (Mike Dunleavy? A future first? ...

Police Report Names Corey Coleman In Assault; Agent Denies Involvement
Cleveland Browns receiver Corey Coleman’s name is in a police report of an alleged attack on a man in the condo building where Coleman lives in Cleveland, but his lawyer and agent say the NFL player wasn’t involved....

Avery Bradley Should Probably Start Keeping An Eye Out For LeBron James
LeBron James has been doing the chasdeown block for so long now that any player who finds himself the victim of one either has a very bad memory or enough hubris to think he can escape LeBron’s shadow....

NBA Admits That Refs Blew Two Calls In Favor Of Cavs; Warriors Remain Chump-Ass Chokers
The Golden State Warriors had all but the killed the Cleveland Cavaliers, and then they lost. This was famously the case back in June, and it was just as true last night. No amount of well-actuallying—not even after tonight, when the NBA owned up to the referees missing two critical late-game calls ...

Kyrie Irving Buried The Warriors Again
Round one between the new-look Warriors and the defending champion Cavaliers went to Cleveland, 109-108, with the knockout blow once again delivered by Kyrie Irving, who drove Klay Thompson into the paint with four seconds left before spinning around and getting an improbable fadeaway jumper to just...