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2010 NBA Playoffs: Previewing a Potential Cavaliers-Bulls Series
Posted: 12th April 2010 by Bob Evans in NBA
With just one game left in the regular season for the Cleveland Cavaliers, it looks like their first round opponent will be the Chicago Bulls.
I don't want to jinx the Bulls, but with two games left in the regular season and a one game lead over the Toronto Raptors: it would take a lot for the Raptors to come back from the hole they put themselves in by losing to ...
2010 NBA Mock Draft: Five Kentucky Wildcats Find the First Round
Posted: 9th April 2010 by Bob Evans in NBA
The NBA Draft lottery will decide who gets the right to draft sensational Kentucky freshman John Wall first overall.
But there is much more to the 2010 NBA Draft than Wall, and I am not just talking about his four Kentucky teammates that will be entering the draft along with him.
Obviously, this will not be the exact draft order because the ping-pong balls determine the lottery and not the ...
What Does Cleveland’s Kingdom Have Left If Its King Decides to Leave
Posted: 8th April 2010 by Bob Evans in NBA
The 2009-2010 NBA Regular season is coming to a close, and the Cleveland Cavaliers are getting ready for another playoff run in an attempt to achieve NBA greatness and win their first league championship.
Leading them down that path will be none other than the center of the media's prediction world, LeBron James.
At the end of the season, LeBron will make one of the biggest decisions in the history ...
NBA Playoffs: Prepare For a Different Side of LeBron Come Playoff Time
Posted: 5th April 2010 by Bob Evans in NBA
Kevin Garnett and the Celtics won the game on Sunday, but they may have done something much better for Cavaliers’ fans—they awoke a sleeping giant.
For seven years Cavaliers’ fans have watched LeBron James mature.
They “Witnessed” his breakout performance in game one, sat on the edge of their seats as he single-handedly willed them to the NBA Finals for the first time, and idolized him even more when he finally won ...
NBA Playoffs: To Win a Ring the Cavs Need To Make the Free Ones
Posted: 1st April 2010 by Bob Evans in NBA
The Cleveland Cavaliers may be the best team in the NBA standings, but when it comes to making the easiest shot in the game of basketball, they rank dead last in the league.
A few years ago, the San Antonio Spurs came up with the philosophy known as the "hack a Shaq" in order to stop the most dominant force in the NBA from scoring at will. Maybe the rest of ...
NBA Playoffs: Three Cavaliers Who Need to Step Up Their Game
Posted: 30th March 2010 by Bob Evans in NBA
It is almost time for the Cleveland Cavaliers to take their team off cruise control.
In what has seemingly been a deja vu to the regular season dominance of a year ago, the Cavaliers are once again about to embark upon a playoff run that could determine the future of the franchise.
Unlike other teams that are entering the playoffs, the pressure to win an NBA Championship has never been greater for ...
2010 NBA Playoffs: Has the Cavaliers’ Focus on the Post Game Doomed Them?
Posted: 27th March 2010 by Bob Evans in NBA
For a team that claims not to run plays for their post positions, the Cavaliers are doing an awful lot of scoring in the post.
Everyone knew the addition of Antawn Jamison would mean the Cavaliers would be doing more scoring in the post. Jamison has been a 20-point, eight-rebound guy for his entire career.
Nobody thought in the midst of getting everyone accustomed to the new play, the Cavaliers have transformed ...
Eric Mangini Hints at More Trades: Who Could Join Cleveland Before the Draft?
Posted: 24th March 2010 by Bob Evans in NFL
Get ready Browns fans, if the additions of Scott Fujita, Tony Pashos, Ben Watson, Seneca Wallace, Peyton Hillis, and Jake Delhomme weren’t enough for you: Eric Mangini and Mike Holmgren just may have a few more moves up their sleeves.
Cleveland Plain Dealer reporter Tony Grossi reported last night that Mangini and Holmgren hinted at the NFL Owners meetings on Tuesday that the trades that moved Corey Williams to Detroit, Brady ...
Cleveland Browns Makeover Continues: Kamerion Wimbley Traded To Oakland
Posted: 14th March 2010 by Bob Evans in NFL
The re-construction of the Cleveland Browns continued on Sunday, just not in a way that anyone thought.
After news of the trade of Brady Quinn made headlines, it is being reported by ESPN's Adam Schefter that the Cleveland Browns have traded starting outside linebacker Kamerion Wimbley to the Oakland Raiders for an undisclosed conditional draft pick.
After having an outstanding 11-sack rookie season in 2006, the 26-year-old, former first round pick has ...
Bye Bye Brady: Browns Ship Former First Round Pick Quinn to Denver
Posted: 14th March 2010 by Bob Evans in NFL
The writing has been on the wall for weeks, but today the Cleveland Browns finally gave Brady Quinn his wish and traded him out of Cleveland.
The former Notre Dame standout and first round pick of the Cleveland Browns has been traded to Denver for running back Peyton Hillis and two future conditional picks.
Quinn would have preferred to be the starter for the Cleveland Browns, but once it was apparent that ...