Cleveland Cavaliers News

Lebron James today had round of interviews to promote the upcoming King for Kids Bike-A-Thon and discussed wide-range of topics around the NBA draft, the University of Akron’s basketball team, and the U.S. Olympic team.
He believes Danny Ferry will do a nice job this summer to make the team better, he didn’t say what nor [...]

For several months the Cavaliers, Zydrunas Ilgauskas and the Lithuanian National Team have been involved in a complex dispute over allowing him to play in this summer’s Olympics. From the Cavs’ standpoint — the only one that matters in this case — the matter is now closed.
http://www.ohio.com/sports/cavs/19880959.html

 
Ira Newble was all set to return to the Cavaliers last winter. Then Phil Jackson called from Los Angeles.
Now Newble is the only player appearing in the NBA Finals for the second straight season.
“It worked out for the best,” Newble said, laughing over the phone.
http://blog.cleveland.com/sports/2008/06/former_cav_ira_newble_happy_to.html

Cleveland Cavaliers executive Chris Grant decided to stay with the Cavaliers as Danny Ferry’s top aid and rejected a General Manager position with the Atlanta Hawks. According to ESPN, Chris Grant “spent the weekend mulling Atlanta’s proposal” and he was “the only candidate to date who was actually offered the job, which came open May [...]

 Is Eric Snow more valuable as a player or a coach?
Cleveland Cavaliers’ Eric Snow up for head coaching job with Chicago Bulls
 
Cavaliers guard Eric Snow is a candidate for the Chicago Bulls’ head coaching job, according to Snow’s agent, Steve Kauffman.
Getting an interview is the easy part. Getting hired would be a challenge - [...]

Cavaliers:  Owner Gilbert confident championship is coming

The Cavaliers are going to win a championship and LeBron James is going to be around to help them do it.   That was the message from owner Dan Gilbert, who held a conference call with local media members Tuesday afternoon.

Holdouts by Anderson Varejao and Sasha Pavlovic cost Cleveland Cavaliers [...]

Cavaliers force game 7
LeBron James had 32 points and 12 rebounds as the Cleveland Cavaliers forced a deciding Game Seven of the Eastern Conference semifinals by sinking the Boston Celtics, 74-69, on Friday night.

Allen needs a reappearing act - and fast
Disappear, that’s what a lot of people think Allen has done in this series, and [...]

According to Ken Ritter of the AP Charles Barkley acknowledged he owes a $400,000 gambling debt to a Las Vegas Strip casino and promised Thursday to repay it after a prosecutor said the retired NBA star faced criminal charges. “My mistake,” Barkley said in an interview at a pro-am golf tournament in Hoover, Ala. “I’m [...]

Clear Channel/Cleveland and the Cleveland Cavaliers ink a Five-year contract

Clear Channel/Cleveland and the Cleveland Cavaliers ink a five-year contract extension to keep the NBA team on News WTAM-AM through the 2012-2013 season. 37-year play-by-play talent Joe Tait will continue as the “Voice of the Cavs,” and WTAM Sports Director Mike Snyder will host the pre-game, [...]

If there was ever a time the Cavaliers needed to pull off another game like their previous it is Monday night at the Q.  Last year the Cavaliers came back from a 0-2 defecit to beat the Detroit Pistons and advance to the NBA Finals.  Boston is not Detroit.  If the Cavs have any hope [...]

LeBron James is robbed in MVP voting
 Nobody is questioning if Kobe was deserving of the recent MVP award. Kobe has been a fantastic player for years, and was almost always deserving of the MVP.  

The only question becomes, did LeBron deserve to get fourth place in the voting?