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The Cleveland Cavaliers have a unique opportunity that has never occurred since LeBron James ascended to the ranks of the NBA’s best player; a top 10 draft selection. Thanks to the Kyrie Irving trade, Cleveland owns the Brooklyn Nets’ first-round pick this year. The Cavs have some major holes, and thankfully, this draft class is […]

When news about Kyrie Irving requesting for a trade from the Cleveland Cavaliers emerged back in the offseason, it caught many by surprise, especially with the success he’s enjoying with the team. Making it to the NBA Finals three straight years is by no means an easy feat, and he has also been playing well […]

Being an NBA player is not an easy task. On the surface, it seems as if these guys simply show up and play every other night, but there are a lot of things they also have to take care of. Most have families, they do community activities, they have to practice, and they need to […]

LeBron James and his future with the Cleveland Cavaliers will always be the topic of discussion until he decides to make up his mind and commit to a team this summer. Prior to the trade deadline when the team overhauled its roster, the prognosis for the Cavs was not good. In fact, it was horrible. […]

BREAKING: In a saddening turn of events at the 67th All-Star Game, the NBA as we know it has completely fallen to pieces. With 2:47 left in the third quarter, Team LeBron teammates Russell Westbrook and Kevin Durant engaged in a scuffle after Westbrook repeatedly ignored Durant’s calls for a pass early in the shot […]

The hype surrounding the new-look Cleveland Cavaliers is as much as it has been in a long while. After a half season of drama and under-performance, the Cavs are riding a four-game winning streak and appear to be ready for another NBA Finals run. But is this sqaud better than the teams that made the […]

Washington Wizards All-Star Bradley Beal got to spend some time over the weekend watching LeBron James and getting an up-close-and-person look at how the best player in the NBA goes about his business. Beal was on Team LeBron for the All-Star Game, so he got to see James work out, prepare for a game, and […]

During an anonymous All-Star Weekend poll released by ESPN, players considered the Miami Heat as one of LeBron James’ likely destinations during this upcoming summer. According to Ira Winderman of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, this idea is a sheer fantasy — a reunion unlikely to happen. “He’s not [coming back to Miami]. But the fact […]

With the trade deadline and All-Star Weekend now over and done, the focus now shifts on the bought-out players and the buyout candidates. We should see certain teams make moves, especially with the last crucial playoff push coming up. However, there are three teams who are in need of filling a spot quickly: Cleveland Cavaliers, […]

With the All-Star Break in full force and no games taking place until Thursday, it has given some people on Reddit time to create some new NBA team names. Reddit user UncleScola used a free translation site to translate every NBA team to Chinese and gave the literal meaning of what the team would be in China. […]

Despite being bumped off first place in the Eastern Conference, the Boston Celtics could prove to win the war after the battle was been fought, with enough upside to dethrone the reigning conference champion Cleveland Cavaliers. President Danny Ainge has done well to collect a regalia of draft picks, and one that can prove too […]

Chris Paul, otherwise known as the Point God, has been one the best point guards in the NBA since the start of his career. Even now that the NBA possesses high caliber point guards such as Stephen Curry, Russell Westbrook, and Kyrie Irving, Paul still earns some recognition for being in the conversation of the […]

This year’s All-Star game featured a surprising lineup. LeBron James and Stephen Curry received the most All-Stsr votes in their conferences and were named team captains as a result. On the day that Curry and James named their team selections, however, it was clear that James had the better team. James selected Kevin Durant, DeMarcus […]

Sunday’s 2018 NBA All-Star Game in Los Angeles was different compared to the ones from previous years. Not only was the format changed with two captains drafting their teammates, but it was also the first time in recent memory that defense was actually played for the majority of the match. The final play was even […]

Right not LaVar and Lonzo Ball are the kings of the Los Angeles sports scene, but if LeBron James decides to take his talents to California this summer that could all change. ESPN did a survey of 48 NBA players asking them different questions about the landscape of the NBA. One of the questions on […]

After winning the 2016 NBA Finals together, many believed that the duo of LeBron James and Kyrie Irving would last forever in Cleveland. However, there was definitely a rift between both players that extended back to when James first joined the Cavaliers in 2014. Irving eventually demanded a trade from the Cavaliers in the off-season, […]

Philadelphia Eagles defensive end Chris Long has not been shy about his views about politics. The two-time Super Bowl winner’s political opinions are pretty similar to those of NBA superstar LeBron James, who has also been critical of President Donald Trump in the past. So when James was recently told to “shut up and dribble” […]

Since the NBA adopted the new format to the All-Star Game with captains selecting the rosters, there has been much made about the selection process. Although the drafting for the 2018 All-Star Game by LeBron James and Stephen Curry was not televised, it has been progressively leaked about where certain players were taken. Throughout this […]

There were a lot of rumors after last season about LeBron James and Paul George trying to team up, either after last season with the Cleveland Cavaliers making a trade to get George from the Indiana Pacers, or after this season when LeBron and Paul are unrestricted free agents. But according to Ramona Shelburne of ESPN, the […]

Through the first half of the 2017-18 NBA season, much of the attention has been on LeBron James’ upcoming free agency with the Cleveland Cavaliers. After a 31-22 record that was poor to their standards, general manager Koby Altman and company overhauled their roster by acquiring Rodney Hood, George Hill, Jordan Clarkson, and Larry Nance […]

When LeBron James becomes an unrestricted free agent this summer the Houston Rockets are expected to be a major player and some betting companies in Vegas have given them the best odds to land the Cleveland Cavaliers superstar. Charles Barkley however, isn’t very fond of the idea of the Cavs forward leaving Cleveland to team […]

With a week of watching each team’s new rosters, it’s quickly becoming clear that this NBA trade deadline was another one for the record books.  Once projected as a quiet affair, last Thursday quickly blew the floodgates open and wildly changed the NBA’s landscape.  With so many different buyers and sellers, a significant change in […]

Fox News anchor Laura Ingraham attacked LeBron James and Kevin Durant on live television the other night regarding their political views. The comments became personal especially as it undermined James’ intelligence and her lack of sensitivity has made Durant believe that she was being racist. Laura Ingraham says #LeBronJames should "shut up and dribble" and […]

Stephen A Smith says a lot of crazy things on his show, First Take, which airs weekdays on ESPN. To no one’s surprise, he was back at it again on Friday morning when talking about Golden State Warriors sharpshooting guard Klay Thompson as well as Cleveland Cavaliers all-around star LeBron James. https://streamable.com/locgt “I would not […]

The NBA trade deadline was one for the ages this year as the Cleveland Cavaliers were active and shipped off most of the players. Cleveland seems to be starting a rebuild process as they brought in a couple of young players including former Los Angeles Lakers Larry Nance Jr. For Nance, the trade really hit […]

Kevin Love has been in the spotlight for the past month as some of his actions were questioned by team members. After the Cleveland Cavaliers 148-124 loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder, Love left the team and would miss practice on Sunday for an illness. Love left the building and the team to return back […]

The world was shocked on Wednesday as news emerged about another violent shooting incident that happened earlier in the day, this time in Parkland, Florida. The suspect, a 19-year-old former student of the school where the act of violence was done, killed 17 people, which was confirmed by authorities after he was taken into custody. […]

The L.A. Clippers Patrick Beverley had a series of arguments on Twitter with ESPN’s Will Cain on Wednesday afternoon. Much of the debate stems from Beverley’s comments that Cain “knows nothing about basketball” after he said the Cleveland Cavs are not a lock to win the Eastern Conference. @stephenasmith I’m convinced that @willcain knows nothing […]

A fan of Dwyane Wade went viral on Tuesday as he held a sign inside Chesapeake Energy Arena making it known that he purchased a ticket to watch the game between the Cleveland Cavaliers and Oklahoma City Thunder earlier this season, but is dismayed that his favorite player has already been traded to the Miami […]

When the Cavs dealt Kyrie Irving for Isaiah Thomas, Jae Crowder, Ante Zizic, Brooklyn’s 2018 first-round pick and Miami’s 2020 second round pick, the public response was relatively positive. Sure, they gave up their second best player and one of the best in the league, but they appeared to get plenty in return. In Thomas, […]

Russell Westbrook and the Oklahoma City Thunder saw first hand on Tuesday how the Cleveland Cavaliers look like now with the four new players they have in their lineup. Many have already given their thoughts about the new-look team and now, it was the reigning MVP’s turn to chime in on the defending Eastern Conference […]

Most NBA pundits crowned the Cleveland Cavaliers as the runaway winners of last Thursday’s trade deadline. After all, remaking a roster that was old and slow defensively to suddenly becoming young and fast is nothing short of a miracle. The Cavs may have saved their season with a flurry of moves, but it was the […]

Dwyane Wade is back to manufacturing highlight plays in South Beach. In just his second game back in Miami Heat uniform since being traded by the Cleveland Cavaliers, Wade recorded a rim-rattling dunk that should be good enough for a poster during the first quarter of Tuesday night’s road game against the Toronto Raptors. Showing […]

The Oklahoma City Thunder’s Holy Trinity of superstars is a go for tonight’s marquee matchup against the Cleveland Cavaliers at Chesapeake Energy Arena. According to Royce Young of ESPN, Carmelo Anthony and reigning league MVP Russell Westbrook both have been greenlighted to play against the defending Eastern Conference champions after both missed the Thunder’s past […]

Dwyane Wade won’t be part of LeBron James’ deliberation process at the end of this NBA season. The King’s second “decision” has been one of the hottest topics during this 2017-18 season, and one that the recently-acquired Wade won’t want anything to do with. “No. No, I don’t have anything to do with it, none […]

What a wild few days it has been for the fans in Cleveland! The Cavs entered last week with plenty to think about, plenty of trade options and a lot of chat surrounding the future of LeBron James. The started this week with many new pieces on their roster, and a dominant performance against the […]

There were a lot of rumors floating around that Isaiah Thomas and LeBron James didn’t really like each other during their time together in Cleveland, and now that seems to be confirmed. Chris Broussard of Fox Sports joined Undisputed on Tuesday morning to talk about the topic. "I was talking to somebody yesterday close to Isaiah, […]

For the third time in his career, Cleveland Cavaliers superstar LeBron James will become a free agent. Though, like the rest of his free agency campaigns, this one carries a specific degree of uncertainty. After being drafted by the Cavs in 2003, James did all he could to lead the franchise to success. He even […]

The job of a general manager in the NBA is a thankless job, one that is always criticized yet offers very little praise when you get the job done right. And when you fail, you are ridiculed and maligned beyond measure! Well, sorry GMs, but that’s exactly what we plan to do as we recall […]