Plain Dealer 1 hour ago
Cleveland Cavaliers coach Mike Brown sees mostly positives as team ends season
Cavaliers coach Mike Brown would like some of his team's early losses back but sees mostly positives after ending the season with a 114-85 victory over the Brooklyn Nets on Wednesday night at The Q and finishing 33-49.
New York Post 15 hours ago
Nets face Atlantic Division foe Raptors in first round of playoffs
CLEVELAND — Hopefully the Nets have their passports up to date. The combination of the Nets losing 114-85 to the Cavaliers and the Wizards winning in Boston means the Nets...
Plain Dealer 9 hours ago
Cleveland Cavaliers give crowd what it really wants on Fan Appreciation Night -- a 114-85 victory over Brooklyn Nets
The Cavaliers give the crowd what it really wants on Fan Appreciation Night -- a 114-85 victory over the Brooklyn Nets.
Newark Star-Ledger 11 hours ago
Nets sit starters, lose to Cavaliers, 114-85, in regular season finale
On to the playoffs
Plain Dealer 2 hours ago
Kyrie Irving on contract extension: 'I want to continue to be a part of this ... (but) I don't have a definitive answer"
Irving comes the closest he has to declaring that he's likely to sign the Cavaliers' expected maximum contract offer.
Chronicle-Telegram 14 hours ago
Cavaliers get easy win over painfully shorthanded Nets in season finale, but no yes yet from star guard Kyrie Irving
CLEVELAND — Kyrie Irving stopped short of saying he’d sign a contract extension with the Cavaliers this summer, but he seemed excited about the possibility. Speaking after the Cavs concluded the season with a 114-85 victory over the extremely shorthanded Brooklyn Nets in a glorified exhibition game...
Plain Dealer 4 hours ago
2014 NBA Draft lottery standings: Cleveland Cavaliers 9th; Milwaukee Bucks have best chance at top pick
Final NBA Draft lottery standings show Cleveland ninth, meaning the Cavs will have a 1.7 percent chance at the No. 1 overall pick in the draft. Milwaukee, Philadelphia and Orlando are the top three. See complete odds for all teams and all picks.
Plain Dealer 2 hours ago
Cleveland Cavaliers' owner Dan Gilbert should be held to a higher standard -- Bud Shaw
Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert has time to reflect on a season gone bad. Which is good because he has more big issues facing him than he had a year ago.
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Akron Beacon Journal 38 mins ago
Cavaliers players defend Mike Brown, want him to return as coach
INDEPENDENCE: They didn’t always play hard for him, and at times they didn’t seem to understand him. But with Mike Brown’s future in limbo, multiple players lined up one by one the past few days to defend their first-year coach.The strongest endorsement came from Dion Waiters even though the two didn’t always agree. Waiters never seemed to fully embrace his bench role, while his inconsistencies and at times his immaturity drove his coach crazy. But they seemed to reach some sort of understanding during the course of the season and now Waiters is his most vocal supporter.“I’d like...
Plain Dealer 53 mins ago
Kyrie Irving, Dion Waiters endorse Mike Brown's return as Cleveland Cavaliers coach
Cavaliers stars Kyrie Irving and Dion Waiters spoke out in favor of coach Mike Brown's return after the team finished the season 33-49, missing the playoffs. The team postponed the end of season wrapup with acting general manager David Griffin after meetings with the players ran late on Thursday.
Akron Beacon Journal 2 hours ago
Waiters, Irving support return of Mike Brown as coach
INDEPENDENCE: Dion Waiters gave the strongest endorsement of any Cavs player when he said he wanted Mike Brown to return to maintain stability within the organization. “I’d like to see coach come back,” he said Thursday. “We’ve been together for a year. The ups and downs he stuck with us, we stuck with him. … I don’t think we need any more changes right now.” Waiters and Brown didn’t always agree. Waiters never seemed to fully embrace his bench role, while his inconsistencies drove his coach crazy. But they seemed to reach some sort of understanding during the course of...
Plain Dealer 8 hours ago
The extraordinary life of Cleveland Cavaliers Luol Deng -- and a plea for peace in his homeland of South Sudan
The Cavaliers Luol Deng has lived an extraordinary life. Born in what is now South Sudan, his family fled to Egypt when he was 5 and received political asylum in the United Kingdom when he was 10. But he has remained true to his homeland, and now he pleads for peace as conflict threatens to tear apart the young country.
Plain Dealer 10 hours ago
NBA Playoffs begin Saturday: Get the matchups
The Heat will face the Bobcats in the first round, while the Spurs open against the Mavericks.
News-Herald 17 hours ago
Cleveland Cavaliers notes: Anthony Bennett reflects on rookie season
Cavaliers power forward Anthony Bennett admits his rookie year was "interesting." That's an understatement. The Cavs dusted him off on April 16 against the Brooklyn Nets. He had missed the previous 17 games with a strained left patellar tendon. Seconds after entering the Nets game, the 6-foot-8, 259-pounder threw down a dunk.
News-Herald 17 hours ago
Jim Ingraham: Thankfully, waste of a Cleveland Cavaliers' season over
It's hard to say what this was. It was either the last game of the season ... Or calling hours. In a season in which a record number of NBA teams openly conceded they didn't really care much about winning, the Cavs cared only about winning. They desperately wanted to win - but couldn't. They couldn't to such a spectacular degree that on the night of April 16, when they officially and mercifully laid to rest their 2013-14 season of shame, they were reduced to the height of ignominy.
Cleveland Cavaliers Blog | News-Herald 17 hours ago
NBA first-round playoff series
Here is the complete schedule and national television & radio arrangements for all First Round series. National Local EDT BroadcastWestern Conference San Antonio vs. DallasGame 1 - Sun April 20 Dallas at San Antonio 12:00PM 1:00PM TNTGame 2 - Wed April 23 Dallas at...
Akron Beacon Journal 18 hours ago
Cavs 114, Nets 85: Cavs conclude season with victory
CLEVELAND: For all that the Cavaliers endured this season, coach Mike Brown didn’t want the final impression of this team to be the way it gave up over the last week after it was officially eliminated from postseason contention.This team endured too much to go out as quitters after fighting back to play well for two months. So he treated the last couple of days of practice, Wednesday’s final morning shootaround and all of the recent film sessions as he normally would. He played his starters typical minutes and the Cavs beat a stripped-down Brooklyn Nets club 114-85 Wednesday, equaling...
Cavaliers Blog | Akron Beacon Journal 19 hours ago
Cavs pound Nets in finale; uncertain offseason looming next
CLEVELAND: For all that the Cavaliers endured this season, Mike Brown didn’t want the final impression of this team to be the way they gave up over the last week after they were officially eliminated from postseason contention. This team endured too much and fought back to play well for two months to go out as quitters. So he treated the last couple days of practice, Wednesday’s final morning shootaround and all of the recent film sessions as he normally would. He played his starters typical minutes and the Cavs beat a stripped-down Brooklyn Nets club 114-85 Wednesday, equaling their...
Akron Beacon Journal 19 hours ago
Cavaliers notebook: Anthony Bennett returns from knee injury to play in season finale
CLEVELAND: Anthony Bennett sprinted down the floor in transition Wednesday, caught a pass from Matthew Dellavedova and finished with a terrific dunk in the lane. A few minutes later, he badly missed on a jumper that completely missed the rim.It was that kind of rookie season for Bennett, who returned from a knee injury to play in Wednesday’s finale, his first game since March 8. Bennett began the night averaging 4.1 points and 2.9 rebounds, certainly disappointing numbers for a No. 1 overall pick in the draft. “Obviously, I could have been a lot better,” Bennett said Wednesday....
