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Mike Brown went from being the 2009 NBA Coach of the Year to getting fired by the Cavaliers.
Saw it coming.
Think most people did.
The Cleveland Cavaliers announced the firing of Mike Brown today. I’ve known coach for several years and he’s a good guy.
Heck, he’s a great guy to work with, but he had to go. Here’s five reasons why.
Center Dwight Howard and point guard Jameer Nelson will have the same look they did after losing to the Los Angeles Lakers in last year's NBA Finals if the Orlando Magic are unable to figure out the Boston Celtics in this year's playoffs.
The Boston Celtics are the runaway locomotive no one in the Eastern Conference has been able to handle in this year’s playoffs.
After beating the Cleveland Cavaliers in six games, the Celtics take a 2-0 series lead heading into Game 3 of the Eastern Conference finals Saturday at home.
Orlando is in big trouble.
The Magic got a big scoring night from Dwight Howard (30 points on 9 of 13 shooting), but he only got eight rebounds in Tuesday’s Game 2 loss, 95-92, at home.
So Boston has proven it can beat the Orlando even if Howard goes nuts offensively.
Here’s the laundry list of problems for Orlando.
LeBron James may have played his final game for the Cleveland Cavaliers in Thursday's Game 6 loss in Boston.
It’s over.
The Cleveland Cavaliers are done for this season and if LeBron James decides to bounce and join another game, they will be done for much longer.
Just for the record, as much as I thought Cleveland had the team to win it all this season, I predicted before the season began it wouldn’t even make it to the NBA Finals.
Who did I pick: The Los Angeles Lakers to win back-to-back and beat the Orlando Magic again. They’re both still alive. Who would have thunk it?
As for the Cavaliers, they won 60-plus games in consecutive regular seasons, James won back-to-back NBA MVPs and didn’t make to the finals last season or this season.
Something is wrong with that picture?
Who is to blame?
Well, let’s start at the top. Or near the top.
Was this LeBron James' last game Tuesday night in Cleveland's Quicken Loans Arena wearing a Cavalier uniform?
The two-time MVP’s body language wasn’t good.
And since LeBron James is their leader, the rest of the Cleveland Cavaliers were just as lifeless.
Now they’re a loss away from seeing championship aspirations expire after losing Game 5 of the Eastern Conference semifinals, 120-88, to the Boston Celtics at Quicken Loans Arena.
If the Celtics close out the Cavaliers in Thursday’s Game 6 in Boston, the sellout crowd of 20,562 may have watched James play his last game for Cleveland in Quicken Loans Arena on Tuesday night.
They didn’t see his best effort.
In fact, it may have been the worst playoff performance of his splendid 7-year NBA career.
James had just 15 points, shooting a woeful 3-of-14 from the field. He only attempted four shots in the first half, missed them all and the electric energy that typically radiates off him was barely pulsating.
By the fourth quarter when James missed a free throw with 10:31 in the game, sprinkle of boos came from the stands.
James wasn’t the only who didn’t bring it Tuesday night.
Cleveland was rolling. Up 29-21.
Boston called a timeout with 9:44 left in the half.
Came back out and started slicing the Cavaliers up like pizza.
The Celtics went on a 16-0 run to take a 37-29 lead. Cleveland didn’t score until 3:41 left in the half when LeBron James made a free throw. That’s a drought of six minutes and three seconds.
Speaking of LeBron, he has taken just four shots in the half and made none.
As good as the run was for Boston, LeBron scored five straight points on free throws, then had two assists withthe later leading to a Mo Williams 3-pointer to get within 3 points.
Cleveland got it down to 2, but the Celtics closed out the quarter on an 8-4 run to take a 50-44 lead at the half.
Had Zydrunas Ilgauskas not got that 3-point play, it would have been worse, but then again, little-used Sheldon Williams scoring three points at the end of the half made the play a wash.
Second half should be very interesting.
His elbow may be hurting, but it didn’t stop LeBron James from scoring 35 points Saturday night in leading the Cleveland Cavaliers to a 101-93 win past the Boston Celtics in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference semifinals at Quicken Loans Arena.
That’s a nice way to go into receiving the MVP award later today at the University of Akron. James won’t need help hoisting the trophy, but he got some much needed help Saturday night.
Mo Williams dropped in 20 points that included a one-handed flush on Paul Pierce to turn the game around. The Cavaliers were down 11 before Williams dunked on Pierce and they wound up taking a 79-78 lead at the end of third quarter.
LeBron James has Cleveland atop the NBA regular-season hill for a second straight season.
The Cleveland Cavaliers have done this before.
And it wasn’t too long ago.
Last season, the Cavs won a league-best 66 games to earn home-court advantage in the playoffs, but wound up losing in the Eastern Conference Finals against Orlando in six games.
Earlier this week, they clinched home-court advantage again for the playoffs after the Los Angeles Lakers lost to the San Antonio Spurs on Sunday, but I’m still not sold the Cavs have the best team in the NBA, though.
Got some issues. Here’s a few.
The Cleveland Cavaliers just announced point guard Delonte West won’t play in tonight’s game at Miami against the Heat as he is out with a fractured left ring finger.
That can only mean one thing.
Cedric Jackson will play again tonight.
The Cavaliers signed Erie BayHawk rookie point guard to a 10-day contract Saturday after losing West to the injury he sustained in Thursday’s win against the Los Angeles Lakers. The Cavaliers are also without starting point guard Mo Williams, who is out with a left shoulder sprain.
Jackson played just two minutes, 2 seconds in Saturday’s win against the Oklahoma City Thunder, but may see more time tonight.
After watching the Erie BayHawks lose to Rio Grande Valley, 110-88, Friday night without their rookie point guard Cedric Jackson, I came up with a few conclusions.
Now Jackson received an NBA call up with the Cleveland Cavaliers, who are an NBA affiliate of the BayHawks. This is the first time the Cavs have plucked a player from Erie as they are an NBA affiliate of the BayHawks.
Erie rookie point guard Cedric Jackson is averaging 27 points and nine assists in his last five games.
Erie BayHawks rookie point guard Cedric Jackson confirmed Friday that he will sign a 10-day contract with the Cleveland Cavaliers on Saturday.
In his last five games, Jackson has averaged 27 points and nine assists for the BayHawks. He scored a career-high 34 in a loss to Austin on Tuesday.
The BayHawks (10-13) are playing tonight against Rio Grande Valley Vipers while the Cavaliers play at home Saturday night against the Oklahoma City Thunder.
With Cleveland starting point guard Mo Williams out with a shoulder injury and back up Delonte West getting diagnosed with a fractured left ring finger after injuring it against the Los Angeles Lakers on Thursday night, the move seems logical for the Cavaliers to pick up Jackson.
