Cavs Bounce Back, Rout Spurs

LeBron James set the tone by scoring 18 first quarter points and he finished with 38 points, seven rebounds and six assists as the Cleveland Cavaliers ended their two game losing streak by beating the San Antonio Spurs 101-81. Delonte West and Mo Williams added 22 points each, mainly by draining open looks after the […]

Mike Brown Coaches by Feel, Not Numbers

Near the end of Coach Mike Brown’s pregame standup before Cleveland’s 99-89 win over Miami on Saturday, I asked him several questions relating to game plan preparation and his thoughts about various basketball statistics. Here is that interview in its entirety: Friedman: “Even though you are not a big stat guy, are there one or […]

NBA Fines Mike Brown $25,000 for criticizing officials

Coach Mike Brown was fined $25,000 by the NBA on Thursday for publicly criticizing referee Joey Crawford following the Cavaliers’ last-second loss at Indiana last Tuesday. Brown’s comments were directed to referee Joey Crawford after he called LeBron James for a foul on Danny Granger with 0.1 seconds left in a 95-95 game. Granger hit […]

No Star Treatment for Lebron, Pacers beat Cavaliers (96-95)

The usually composed coach Mike Brown stormed out of the locker room in disgust over a foul Crawford called on LeBron James with .1 of a second left that sent All-Star Danny Granger to the line for what turned out to be the game-winning free throw and cost the Cavaliers their first back-to-back loss this […]

Lebron, Howard top All-Star Votes

For the fifth consecutive season, James was voted to the All-Star Game and got a career-best 2,940,823 to top all forwards in the Eastern Conference. The Magic’s Dwight Howard led all players with a record 3,150,181 votes. James was second overall and the Lakers’ Kobe Bryant was third with just over 2.8 million. The game […]

Cavaliers win big in “Big D” (100 – 81)

The Cavaliers started the game strong and were able to build a 16 points lead. But as usual they managed to let all go in the third quarter and the Mavs tied the game at 63. But this time, Mo Williams (14 points, 6 assists) came to the rescue and started the fourth quarter with […]