Tag: Cleveland Cavaliers
The Cleveland Cavaliers and point guard, Ricky Rubio, have reportedly started discussions about a possible buyout. The veteran point guard has been on leave dealing with mental health issues all season. Currently, the Cavaliers reside in the sixth seed in the Eastern Conference with a win-loss record of 15-12. The team is currently without Darius […]
In the latest round of NBA rumors, these three teams — Miami Heat, Brooklyn Nets, and New York Knicks — will reportedly show interest in Cleveland Cavaliers guard Donovan Mitchell if the Cavs make the four-time All-Star available for a trade. On Monday, ESPN NBA insider Brian Windhorst said on his “Hoop Collective” podcast that […]
Key Highlights: The three main ways to build a top-10 defense is through having good rim protection, defensive playmaking, or point-of-attack defense There is a fourth, less common, way to build a top-10 defensive unit If your offense isn’t elite, you need to be at least good (top-10 level) on defense A couple of weeks ago, […]
During a recent appearance on “Run Your Race,” Cleveland Cavaliers guard Donovan Mitchell recalled a time during the COVID-19 pandemic when he spent locked in his mother’s basement in Connecticut because family members thought he contracted the virus. “I couldn’t go nowhere and get food because people thought I really had COVID,” Mitchell said. “And […]
Key Highlights Alperen Şengün is making a career-high 52 percent of his shots from midrange, which ranks in the 84th percentile among big men, according to Cleaning the Glass The Cleveland Cavaliers have outscored opponents by 27 points in the 25 minutes that Darius Garland, Donovan Mitchell, Caris LeVert, Max Strus and Evan Mobley have […]
User Note: This page is updated as of Monday, June 24, 2024. After a successful 11-year career as an NBA journeyman, Tyronn Lue decided it was time to end his playing days and start impacting the game from the sidelines. Nowadays, he’s the leading man for one of the most expensive starting lineups in NBA history. But […]
User Note: This page is updated as of Tuesday, June 25, 2024. Before the 2022-23 season, the Sacramento Kings had a strong argument as the most downtrodden organization in the NBA. From 2006 to 2022, the Kings didn’t have a single playoff appearance to their name. Then, Mike Brown was hired to be the 31st coach in […]
Since joining the Cleveland Cavaliers midway through the 2019-20 season, Head Coach J.B. Bickerstaff has guided the team through their most successful era without LeBron James since the 1990s. That success culminated in a 51-win season and a playoff appearance last season. But how much is he getting paid for his work? In this post, […]
Key Highlights: Strus and Niang greatly improve Cleveland’s spacing By adding more shooting, Cleveland is losing some defensive value Spacing (both creating it and taking it away) is the key to basketball Take a look at these two plays in the clip below. What is the major difference between these two sequences? Yes, one (the […]
According to the latest NBA rumors, Cleveland Cavaliers guard Donovan Mitchell and Detroit Pistons forward Bojan Bogdanovic are reportedly among the Philadelphia 76ers’ trade targets. This news comes just days after the Sixers traded James Harden, P.J. Tucker, and Filip Petrusev to the Los Angeles Clippers for Marcus Morris, Nic Batum, Robert Covington, KJ Martin, […]
