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The Cavaliers Defense Is A Vise, Slowly Crushing The Warriors To Death
Okay, what the hell are the Cavaliers doing on defense? Because after three games of absolutely pummeling the Warriors offense, this clearly isn’t a fluke. Here is a partial list of things the Cavs defense perpetrated on Golden State in Game 3:...

Matthew Dellavedova's Night, In 30 Seconds
Alleged worst player in the finals to get major minutes Matthew Dellavedova had a huge night in helping the Cavaliers take a 2-1 NBA Finals series lead over the Warriors. Here’s his highlight reel....

LeBron's Teammates Are Actively Playing Defense On Him
This is the NBA Finals, and the Cavaliers are committing goaltending against themselves. ...

The Cavaliers' Defense Deserves All The Love
If you had traveled back in time to Sunday morning and shown me a snapshot of the Game 2 box score as it stood with three minutes left to play in the fourth quarter, I would have assumed that something cataclysmic was in store—that Steph Curry was going to lose his right hand right before tip-off, o...

LeBron James Played The Best Kind Of Hero Ball
I’m still not entirely sure what we saw last night, only that I loved it. This was not a good game by any means—it was sloppy and disjointed and featured as many bad misses as missed calls—but it was the most single most viscerally entertaining game since at least Game 7 of Clippers-Spurs. And it fe...

LeBron's Cavs Outlast Warriors In Overtime For Improbable Game 2 Win
The end of regulation looked familiar. Once again the Cavs found themselves with a potential game-winning shot, having once again blown a late-game lead, and once again LeBron missed, sending Cleveland into overtime looking old and broken and just short. This time, though, the Cavs absorbed the Warr...

Cavs Fan Promises To Eat Ancient Mark Price Bar If Cleveland Wins
Cavaliers fan Tim Brady has sworn he will consume a long-frozen Mark Price chocolate bar if Cleveland wins an NBA title. We can tell him from personal experience that this is a very bad idea....

The Cavs And Kyrie Irving Seem To Disagree On His Injury
This Kyrie Irving injury is especially frustrating because, for his 44 minutes on the court, he looked great. Looked like his old self, before his left knee started to give out at the beginning of these playoffs, putting up 23 points, seven boards, six assists, and two very definitive blocks of Step...

When The Warriors Play Small They're Unstoppable
In Game 1 of the NBA Finals, neither the Warriors nor Cavaliers were able to perform for more than a couple of minutes at a time. That can partially be attributed to the rust from a week off, but each team also executed a successful defensive scheme. The Warriors didn’t double LeBron James, letting ...

J.R. Smith Has The NBA By The Shoelaces
Hello again, casual basketball fan! The NBA Finals begin tonight. The heavily favored Golden State Warriors will face the Cleveland Cavaliers; league MVP Steph Curry and rising star Klay Thompson will take on the immortal LeBron James and whiz-kid Kyrie Irving. The Warriors will seek their first tit...

The Indians' Bullpen Held Brandon Moss's HR Ball For Ransom
Indians slugger Brandon Moss’s solo home run, in the fourth inning of Cleveland’s 2-1 win in Kansas City, was the 100th of his career. Naturally, he wanted to hang on to it. Unfortunately for Moss, the ball didn’t land in the stands, where it could be collected by a fan and be negotiated for in good...

Report: Johnny Manziel Harassed By Fan At Golf Tournament
Johnny Manziel was harassed by a fan at the Byron Nelson Classic golf tournament on Saturday, leading to a conversation with police outside a Four Seasons hotel, according to a report from Northeast Ohio Media Group’s Mary Kay Cabot....

The Hawks Were Fun, Occasionally Terrific, And Not Revolutionary
The Finals matchup is set, and thanks to a scheduling quirk and two mostly non-competitive conference finals series, we’ve got nearly an entire week with no basketball. It’s a good time to revisit how we got here....

The Cavaliers Had A Party In The Cold Tub
What’s a good way to celebrate sweeping your way through the Eastern Conference Finals and earning a long rest before the start NBA Finals? Partying in a cold tub with your bros, of course!...

Mozgov Mozgovs Millsap
This is how bad it has gotten for the Hawks: they’re getting Mozgov’d by Mozgov on alley-oops. They’re down 17 at the half, and don’t show the faintest sign that they can comeback and win....

LeBron James Defeats Gravity
LeBron James announced his intention for there to be no Game 5 just three minutes into Game 4, grabbing a steal and flying past everybody for a monster dunk. The best angle comes 31 seconds into the video, or you can just check out the Vine below, where you can see James just rising and rising as he...

Bah Gawd! It's An Al Horford-The Rock People's Elbow Mashup!
After Al Horford’s ejection for dropping The People’s Elbow on Matthew Dellavedova last night, it was only a matter of time before we compiled every angle of Horford’s move and mixed it in with some vintage footage of The Rock. And, yes, there’s the usual presence of “J.R.” Jim Ross in there too....