Cleveland Cavaliers News

I’m tryin’ to see the forest but there’s this one tree –Reuben Studdard
In 1987, Curry Kirkpatrick, writing for Sports Illustrated, reflected on a memorable 1983 Hawks-Celtic Playoffs fight. Tree Rollins elbowed Danny Ainge; Danny made the mistake of tackling Tree; one tetanus shot and a permanently reduced ability to give anyone the finger later, the […]

Billy Thomas is ready for the Playoffs:
I want to be there when the games matter most. I want the chance to be the guy. (Source: The Kansas City Star January 29, 1998)
The feeling is mutual. After a 2nd 10-day callup bringing Billy from the D-League’s Colorado 14ers to Cleveland, the Cavs extended an offer that […]

To tell the story of Jim “Sweets” Chones is to tell the story of “If only…” If only he hadn’t Broken His Foot, if only he hadn’t Grown Up Poor, if only he hadn’t, well, I’ll let the Nets’ long-time scorer Herb Turetzky tell that one:
Scoring the pre-season game in 1972 at the Nassau Coliseum […]

Damon Jones is the funniest, handsomest, smartest, world-class 3-point shooter never drafted.
And he’ll be the first to tell you.
Living a life of hyperbole comes naturally:
I think it’s a family gene . . . It’s in the DNA. [Damon’s Mom, Renee Jones-Lee]
Galveston Ball High coach Jerry Williams, denying any knowledge of Damon’s boy’s room gambling ring, […]

Walt Wesley, the man who set the infamous 1966 Jo Jo White pick which made the movie Glory Road possible, quietly shepherds at-risk youth through tough times. Wesley, a Police Athletic League (PAL) executive in Fort Myers, Florida, offers a balanced perspective, stressing education:
It’s great to have aspirations of being a pro athlete, but you […]

As a first name. “Devin” is unusual, although not rare. Kind of in-between. “Brown” is cliché-common; put it after Devin, though, and it no longer sounds so ordinary. Rather in-between.
Undrafted out of the University of Texas-San Antonio (UTSA) in 2002, Devin Brown split the 2002-2003 season between the NBA (10 games with San Antonio […]

The year is 1974, the first season in Cavs franchise history without Bill Fitch as head coach. Stan Albeck heads the team; Cleveland selects Clarence “Foots” Walker as the 38th overall pick in the 3rd round of the NBA draft. We have our team:
7 Bobby Smith
10 […]

Joe Smith’s NBA career began with a sob. During an April 1995 press conference at his alma mater, Maury High School, Norfolk, Virginia, Joe announced he was leaving the University of Maryland Terrapins at the end of the semester to join the NBA; then he sat down beside his mother, Letha, leaned over into her […]