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The Oklahoma City Thunder bring their 30-5 record to town for the first of two games in an eight-day period between the two best records in the NBA. The Thunder have won 15 in a row if you don’t count the loss to Milwaukee in the finals of the NBA Cup. They are 13-3 on the road and 11-0 against the East. The Cavs are 31-4 and 10-0 against the West, so something has to give. According to two schedule ranking websites the Cavs have played the second easiest schedule while the Thunder have played either the 4th hardest or the 15th. The Thunder are coming off an impressive 105-92 win over the Celtics in Oklahoma on Sunday. The Celtics average almost 120 points per game but were held to 92 with all their main guys healthy and playing...

The second part of a multi-part series, we take a deep dive into the financials surrounding upcoming free agent Caris LeVert -- what's his market look like, and what will the financial implications be? For the first part of the series, we broke down the Cavs financial future and what all the new CBA means. Take a look -- Cavs Financial Future: The Guide to Sustained Success. Caris LeVert is a unique player. Watch enough Cavalier basketball, and you’ll quickly find that out. When he’s not doing this, he’s doing this. When he’s not near tops of the league in plus-minus, he’s shooting a career low free-throw percentage while also shooting a career high three-point percentage. LeVert may be the only player with his own wheel to...

Let down? How about don’t let up. Even Kenny Atkinson admitted postgame he was a bit worried about this game. Coming off a long, but successful, West Coast trip the team was riding high. They also got into Cleveland late and could have fallen victim to looking ahead to their Wednesday matchup with Oklahoma City. Plus, this Hornets team played them well in Charlotte without much of their firepower in Miles Bridges, Brandon Miller, and LaMelo Ball. But how did they overcome? As Kenny relayed, it speaks to this team’s maturity they were able to come out and take care of business. And that business is continuing their win streak, their double-digit win streak to be exact. After tonight’s victory, it’s now ten straight double-digit wins...

After sweeping the west coast trip the Cavs return home for their third game against the 7-26 Charlotte Hornets. The Hornets have lost 17 of 18 and are 2-13 on the road. The Cavs are 2-0 against Charlotte this season, winning 128-114 in Cleveland and 116-102 in Charlotte. Evan Mobley is averaging 32 ppg against Hornets. Darius Garland is averaging 21.5 points and 8.5 assists. The Cavs are shooting 53% overall and 40% on 3’s in the two games, good for a 122 ppg average. The rest of the league is averaging 112 ppg against the Hornets. On the surface this is a game between a team that is 17-1 at home and a team that is 2-13 on the road. But the Hornets have been playing without leading scorers LeMelo Ball and Brandon Miller, but they...

“This is the worst Evan will be.” In his postgame comments recanting the impact and growing relationship with Evan Mobley, Donovan Mitchell uttered that statement with a big smile. He knows if Mobley keeps on his upward trajectory like he has, only good things can come from it. Mobley may have taken steps in prior years, but he is taking the leap this year. He had four, 30+ pts regular season games coming into the year. He’s at two through 34 games this year. He had 15 2+ three-point makes in a regular season game coming into the year, he’s had 7 2+ three-point makes in a game this year. Caris LeVert was also asked about Mobley’s development postgame and while he mentioned his perimeter shots falling this year, he said his...

Winners of 12 of 13 (the one loss coming in party town Miami) the Cavs attempt to sweep their west coast swing with a win over the Luka Doncic-less Dallas Mavericks. Luka is out for at least a month and the Mavs are 1-4 in his absence, counting the game where he was injured after 16 minutes. This will be the Cavs' first game of 2025. The Cavs have won eight in a row, all by double digits, with an average margin of victory of 18 points. They are 9-0 against the West. This will be their first game against Dallas. They play them again in Cleveland in a month; hopefully Luka will still be out. The Mavericks were 19-10 going into the Christmas day game where Doncic was injured. Since then they are 1-4 including losses to Portland (11-21)...