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Brad Stevens is a smart coach, and he knows to use all of his resources wisely. Boston Celtics point guard Kyrie Irving won’t be on the court during this series against the Cleveland Cavaliers, but he might actually be a key to the Boston Celtics upsetting the defending Eastern Conference champions. According to Brad D’Amico, […]

The Philadelphia 76ers made some huge strides forward this year, and if they brought back the same team that they had this year, there is no question they would be at least a little better, because of the strides the young players will take during the offseason. Brett Brown isn’t ready to trust natural progression […]

The Boston Celtics and Cleveland Cavaliers are set to do battle in the Eastern Conference Finals, as most hoops fans know. While there are several interesting points of discussion with regards to the matchup, there is also one story line that might be a bit surprising to some. As it turns out, Jayson Tatum and […]

Joel Embiid knows the Philadelphia 76ers are good, he also knows how much better they can be if they add a star like LeBron James. Embiid didn’t wait until the offseason to already start recruiting James to the team, as was already on social media a few times during the season trying to recruit The […]

Meek Mill’s favorite team, the Philadelphia 76ers, hadn’t even been eliminated for a full day, and he was already trying to recruit LeBron James to team up with Ben Simmons and Joel Embiid. Mill appeared on ESPN’s first take on Thursday morning and he gave his pitch on why he believes the King’s next move […]

The Boston Celtics punched their ticket to the Eastern Conference Finals for the second-straight year, which now bodes a reunion between rookie Jayson Tatum and his childhood idol LeBron James of the Cleveland Cavaliers. Yet the nerves of going up against someone he once looked up to will be completely different, now with a task […]

The Eastern Conference Finals has now been booked. It will feature the Boston Celtics and the Cleveland Cavaliers — a rematch of last year’s battle in the East. Both teams look different now, though. The Cavs have a mixed bag of new acquisitions. The Celtics, meanwhile, now have Kyrie Irving — although he’s not playing. […]

Finally, the Eastern Conference finals matchup is set and it’s going to be a rematch of last year’s showdown between the Cleveland Cavaliers and the Boston Celtics. Following their 114-112 win over the Philadelphia 76ers on Wednesday at home, the Celtics booked a ticket to their second conference finals in a row, and they will […]

On paper, the Toronto Raptors might be the better team than the Indiana Pacers. After all, the Raptors locked the first seed in the Eastern Conference. The Pacers were just fifth. But another look at how the playoffs turned out, it seems that the Pacers are the far superior team. As observed by Reddit user The_Unknown98: […]

The Toronto Raptors seem to be doing a lot of soul-searching after being eliminated by the Cleveland Cavaliers for the third year in a row.  For DeMar DeRozan, he said on Tuesday that this is the lowest feeling he has ever had. “This is probably the toughest, most frustrating, difficult, lowest feeling I’ve had,” DeMar […]

The storyline about how the series would flow between the Toronto Raptors and the Cleveland Cavaliers quickly flipped after the road team’s Game 1 victory. The Raptors were up big in Game 1 before the Cavaliers came storming back to steal a win. Near the end of regulation, the Raptors had countless attempts to hit […]

David Fizdale is a big fan of LeBron James and the King is also a big fan of the newest New York Knicks coach. They spent time together when Fizdale was an assistant coach for the Miami Heat and after Fizdale was fired by the Memphis Grizzlies, James was one of the first to publicly […]

There are plenty of details for Toronto Raptors head coach Dwane Casey to mull over throughout the summer as he tries to piece together exactly what happened to his team this postseason as it ended in disastrous results. Wednesday afternoon brought the coach’s exit interview. He answered questions from reporters and gave his thoughts about […]

The Toronto Raptors got swept by the Cleveland Cavaliers in the second round of the playoffs. No one thought that would happen. In fact, many thought this was Toronto’s year. But the Cavaliers and LeBron James seem to have something over the Raptors — the mental edge. This playoffs was the third in a row […]

ESPN analyst Paul Pierce didn’t hesitate to give his old team more than a puncher’s chance against the Eastern Conference titan Cleveland Cavaliers, not only liking the Boston Celtics’ chances to dethrone the Cavs, but also taking Al Horford over Kevin Love in the big-man battle. via Charlie Malam of The Express: “If you look […]

Scottie Pippen had perhaps an unpopular hot-take after the Cleveland Cavaliers seem to have regained their true form after sweeping the Toronto Raptors, coming off a testy seven-game series against the Indiana Pacers. The Hall of Fame forward could see the Boston Celtics dethroning the Cavs’ three-year reign of terror in the East. “Yes, I […]

Drake loves his Toronto Raptors — like he loves the other 97 (and counting) other teams he cheers for — so just imagine the degree of pain he had to go through watching LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers subject the Raptors to four games of medieval-style torture in the Eastern Conference semifinals. The torment […]

Gilbert Arenas finally revealed what Cleveland Cavaliers superstar LeBron James told him during his famously missed free throws in the two’s 2006 first round NBA Playoffs series. First, for context, here is what we are talking about: (2006) 12 years ago today, the Cavs beat the Wizards in a crazy game 6. pic.twitter.com/clUXcM80QQ — Timeless […]

Cleveland Cavaliers star LeBron James owns the Toronto Raptors, plain and simple. During the last offseason, the Raptors completely changed their style of offense with the idea of finally getting past the Cavs, but that still wasn’t enough as the Raptors were swept in the second round series. LeBron James (34.0 PPG, 11.3 APG, 8.3 […]

The trades that sent the Cavs’ Kyrie Irving to the Boston Celtics and the Pacers’ Paul George to the Oklahoma City Thunder were two of the biggest moves of the 2017 NBA offseason. Although the trades were unrelated, Irving and George were nearly dealt for each other multiple times. If that deal had gone through, […]

One night after LeBron James scored 38 points in a Cleveland Cavaliers win, Kevin Durant of the Golden State Warriors did exactly the same. Durant top-scored for the defending champions as they sent back the New Pelicans to Earth with a 118-92 trouncing. He shot the ball well, hitting 15 of his 27 shots from […]

In his 15th season in the league, Cleveland Cavaliers star forward LeBron James has continued to play at a remarkable level at a point of his career where many of the league’s best player prior to him began to see some deterioration of their respective individual games. James has continued to put that on display […]

The end is drawing near for the top-seeded Toronto Raptors. After getting the best of John Wall and the Washington Wizards in the first round of the NBA playoffs, DeMar DeRozan and company have had no answer for LeBron James’ Cleveland Cavaliers in the second round. Facing a third straight loss against the Cavs in […]

For Toronto Raptors head coach Dwane Casey, his team’s misfortune against the Cleveland Cavaliers continued on Saturday night when they lost their ninth consecutive postseason game to the Cavs and now face a 3-0 series deficit in the Eastern Conference Semifinals. DeMar DeRozan should take some of the blame, but more on that in a […]

LeBron James did it again on Saturday night to the Toronto Raptors. After having a big lead for most of the game the Toronto Raptors got back into the game and gave their fans some hope that they just might be able to get back into the series. James then decided he had enough of […]

In the playoffs, you do not want to be down three games to none. It is very well documented that a team that is on the bottom end of that has never come back to win the series. It has been foolproof since a seven game series has become the norm, that it gets brought […]

The Cleveland Cavaliers were led to yet another win in their Eastern Conference semifinals matchup against the Toronto Raptors to grab a commanding 3-0 series lead. It was once against led by star forward LeBron James putting up yet another huge all-around playoff performance that was all capped by his second game-winner in this year’s postseason. […]

It happened yet again to the Eastern Conference’s top-seeded Toronto Raptors. Cleveland Cavaliers superstar forward LeBron James heroics down the stretch of Game 3 of the Eastern Conference Semifinals broke the Raptors hearts with a game-winner off the glass for a stunning 105-103 for the Cavs. After the stunning loss, Raptors star point guard Kyle […]

The Cleveland Cavaliers were thought to be dead in the water coming into these playoffs. Not many people believed this iteration of the Cavaliers had much of a chance to make it to another finals, let alone win a title. Part of the reason for that is because of all the turmoil and roster turnover […]

The NBA Playoffs are far from over but the destination of a certain number 23 is a hot topic particularly because of the uncertainty regarding his team’s chances of making it back to the Finals and winning it all. Despite winning Game 7 in the first round against the Indiana Pacers to avoid elimination, LeBron […]

Following Friday morning practice session in Toronto, Raptors head coach Dwane Casey spoke to members of the media with regards to what his team needs a bit more of. Now that they’re facing a 2-0 deficit in their Eastern Conference Semifinals matchup against the Cleveland Cavaliers, coach Casey is calling for more “grit and toughness” […]

When healthy this year, Kevin Love was really good. In fact, it was easily his most productive campaign since moving from Minnesota to Cleveland. He posted career highs in effective field goal (.552) and true shooting percentage (.614). His per-36-minute averages of 22.7 points and 11.9 rebounds were the best during his Cavaliers tenure. Love […]

In a suddenly half empty Air Canada Centre, LeBron James stood on the court with a towel draped over his shoulders, explaining the Cleveland Cavaliers’ 128-110 victory over the Toronto Raptors in Game 2. The crowd—at least, what remained of it—was stunned into silence. Toronto, as our own James Holas explained, spent an entire year […]

The Toronto Raptors are back in a familiar place. After a fantastic regular season that saw them lock up the No. 1 seed in the Eastern Conference, the Raptors find themselves again in the same exact place they were in a year ago: down 0-2 in the second round of the playoffs against the same […]

Put LeBron James on almost any NBA team with their current roster and they could probably make the playoffs. That’s what everyone says about James, anyways, as he’s seemingly continued to get better as his NBA career has progressed into his 15th season. Whether it may be the Phoenix Suns or the Golden State Warriors, […]

The Air Canada Centre was deafeningly silent in the third quarter of Game 2 with the visiting Cleveland Cavaliers were manhandling the home team, the Toronto Raptors. At the center of the melee was LeBron James, who was (again) orchestrating the devastation. Except for a smattering of “oohs-and-ahhs,” there was virtually nothing for the crowd to […]

LeBron James dominated Game 2 of the Cleveland Cavaliers second round series against the Toronto Raptors on Thursday night, putting up 43 points, 14 assists, and eight rebounds helping the Cavs to a 2-0 series lead. Mark Jones of ESPN was so impressed by James’ utter dominance that at the end of the third quarter, […]

What Cleveland Cavaliers star LeBron Jame did in Game 2 against the Toronto Raptors was nothing short of spectacular and he showed once again why he is one of the greatest to ever play the game. A lot of NBA players were blown away by what the King does on a nightly basis and it […]

This year’s NBA Playoffs feature a number of fresh figures. The Philadelphia 76ers have sort of completed The Process just by making it to the postseason. The goal is always to win an NBA title, but a playoffs appearance must feel like bathing in liquid velvet for Philly. Donovan Mitchell, Jayson Tatum, Joel Embiid, Ben […]