Category: Cleveland Cavaliers (Page 36 of 88)

LeBron James is moving up the charts on many writers’ lists for MVP. I believe the last two weeks of the season are going to be critical for James to win the covenant award. The Cavaliers will have to decide on whether to rest James to prepare for the first round of the playoffs or let his young legs carry him to his first of many MVP’s.
I believe it’s important for Mike Brown and the Cavaliers to close out the season strong and play every game to the end. This is a young team that is not playoff tested. LeBron and company will need all the confidence they have now for their playoff run.

LeBron dropped 37 points Saturday afternoon as the Cavaliers beat the Nets 108-102, snapping New Jersey’s 14-game winning streak. James, once again, took charge and led his team when it counted, scoring 18 of his points in the fourth quarter. With a Washington loss to Miami, the Cavaliers will lock up the fourth seed and clinch home-court advantage for the first round of the playoffs.

New Jersey is the hottest team in the NBA and to come from behind and beat them on their home floor is pretty remarkable. Without Z, LeBron put the team on his shoulders and was phenomenal the way he carried the Cavaliers to victory.

“LeBron James was LeBron James; he is truly an amazing player,” Mike Brown said. “In my opinion, there are a lot of great players out there, but without him we’d be in trouble. So in my opinion, he’s an MVP.”

LeBron James is making sure the Cavaliers don’t end this season on the same low note as last year. The impact of James this month has been so strong that most experts went from claiming he isn’t able to close a game to calling his name on the MVP “short list”.
It was only a month ago that Charles Barkley was ignorantly questioning LeBron’s heart and killer instinct. Today, Bill Walton is saying that LeBron James has to be on the potential MVP list considering his recent play.
I believe James will fall short on the MVP ballots because he is so young. The writers believe he has many MVP’s coming his way in the future.

All good things must come to an end. The Cavaliers’ mammoth nine-game winning streak did on Wednesday night, as they lost to the woeful New York Knicks 96-94. LeBron James finished with 36 and the Cavs outscored the Knicks by 15 in the final quarter but it still wasn’t enough. Mike Brown was not at all pleased with his club’s effort.

“I was disappointed in our effort,” Cavs coach Mike Brown said. “I thought that our guys felt that they could show up in this building and win the ballgame whenever they wanted to. We didn’t take care of the basketball, we didn’t really share the basketball. We weren’t aggressive attacking until late in the game and we didn’t do a good job defending.

Z being out must have affected the team’s psyche or something because, with the exception of the last quarter, the Cavaliers did not show up.

The Cleveland Cavaliers are winning games and Larry Hughes has returned to the team with a clean bill of health. This gives all of us Cleveland fans reason to smile. In recent years, Cleveland fans would expect to hear some bad news and feel something negative was going to happen.

Not this time. Damon Jones, as he predicted, was cleared of any crimes or wrong doings and according to police reports fully cooperated during the investigation. It’s good for the team to move past this situation and concentrate on the playoffs.
Also, the news on Zydrunas Ilgaukas is positive. The MRI and X-rays both came back negative and the Cavaliers are going to rest him for tonight’s game in New York. I don’t believe Z would be playing full time whether he got hurt or not. The more rest Z and LeBron James can have before the playoffs, the better.