LeBron won player of the week again. Check out the article here
CLEVELAND, OH - December 29th, 2008 - Cleveland Cavaliers forward LeBron James was named today as the NBA’s Eastern Conference Player of the Week for games played Monday, December 22nd through Sunday, December 28th.
In three games during the week, James averaged 26.0 points on .527 shooting, 6.7 assists, 6.7 rebounds and 2.0 steals in 39.7 minutes per game. James has now won the award 16 times in his career: for the third time this season and already equaling his total for 2007-08, twice in 2006-07, five times in 2005-06 and on three occasions during the 2004-05 campaign.
In receiving the award for the third time this season, James and the Cavaliers are off to their best start in franchise history (26-4). With three wins at home during the week, they extended their undefeated home record to 16-0 and remain the only undefeated team at home this season in the NBA.
James scored 15 of his game-high 27 points in the third quarter against Houston on December 23rd to lead the Cavs to a 99-90 victory. He also added a game-high nine rebounds and five assists.
In the game versus Washington on December 25th, he finished with 18 points, five rebounds and six assists. The Cavaliers were down by seven points with 1:40 remaining in the fourth quarter and closed the game on an 11-0 run against the Wizards to come back and win the game 93-89. James led the rally with nine points, three rebounds and two assists in the final period.
On December 28th, James scored 33 points and tallied six rebounds and nine assists, including 11 points, three rebounds and four assists in the fourth quarter comeback versus Miami. Heading into the fourth quarter, the Cavaliers were down by nine points but Cleveland outscored the Heat 35-19 to win their sixth consecutive game.
The Los Angeles Lakers’ Kobe Bryant was named the Western Conference Player of the Week. Other nominees for the Eastern Conference Player of the Week were Atlanta’s Joe Johnson, Charlotte’s Gerald Wallace, Cleveland’s Mo Williams, Detroit’s Rodney Stuckey, Miami’s Dwyane Wade, Orlando’s Rashard Lewis and Toronto’s Jermaine O’Neal.
LeBron James was named today as the NBA’s Eastern Conference Player of the Week for the second straight week for games played Monday, November 10th through Sunday, November 16th.
In three games during the week, James averaged an NBA-high 33.7 points on .600 shooting, 8.0 assists and 6.0 rebounds in 41.0 minutes per game. James has now won the award 15 times in his career: for the second time this season, three times during 2007-08, twice in 2006-07, five times in 2005-06 and on three occasions during the 2004-05 campaign.
On November 11th, James scored 41 points for the third time this season and tallied five rebounds, six assists and three steals versus Milwaukee. James became the first player since Michael Jordan in 1991 to reach the 40-point mark at least three times in his team’s first eight games of a season.
In the game against the Nuggets on November 13th, he finished with 22 points, eight rebounds, 11 assists and three steals. On November 15th, James scored a game-high 38 points, including 16 points on 6-10 shooting in the fourth quarter, and added five rebounds, seven assists, two blocks and two steals against the Jazz. The Cavs went 3-0 during the week and currently own the NBA’s longest winning streak at seven games.
LeBron gets his 14th player of the week award for the East.
James' league-best 34.5 ppg last week helped Cleveland to a 4-0 mark. With wins over Dallas, Indiana and Chicago twice, the Cavaliers upped their season record to 5-2 and sit alone atop the Central Division. James added 9.8 rebounds, 5.3 assists, 1.8 steals and 1.3 blocks per contest.
With his second steal against Dallas on Nov. 3, James became the youngest (23 years, 308 days) and fastest (395 games) to eclipse the following milestones: 10,000 points, 2,500 rebounds, 2,500 assists, 700 steals and 300 blocks.
Here's last week's recap:
Nov. 3 at Dallas: Tallied 29 points, eight rebounds, three assists and two steals in a 100-81 victory over the Mavericks.
Nov. 5 vs. Chicago: Scored a season high 41 points, and added nine rebounds, six assists and four steals in a 107-93 win over the Bulls.
Nov. 7 vs. Indiana: Recorded 27 points, nine rebounds, eight assists and four blocks in a 111-107 win over the Pacers.
Nov. 8 at Chicago: Matched a season high with 41 points and added 13 rebounds and four assists in a 106-97 win against the Bulls.
You guys know I keep track of this kind of stuff here, right?
Read the NBA article here
I buy all of LBJ's shoes when they come out... it's a hobby I guess. But they are not really "wearable" outside of the gym. Not like Jordan's (some of them). They are cool looking, but not out on the street. But these look very different. Can totally see lots of people sportin' 'em in jeans.
Cavs went ahead and signed J.J. Hickson to a multi-year contract on July 12th
The 6-foot-9 power forward led the Atlantic Coast Conference in field goal percentage last season at .591, while averaging 14.8 points and 8.5 rebounds for North Carolina State. He will make his professional debut next week as part of Cleveland’s team at the NBA Summer League in Las Vegas.
Every where I click, listen or read pundits are lining up to opine about Lebron going to New York or Brooklyn or New Jersey or anywhere but Cleveland. Granted, LeBron is fueling the fire by waxing so eloquently about those destinations, but to read into everything the man says is pointless. We're two years away from any decision and the Cavs management is definitely on the clock, but so many things can change while NY waits for him to save their basketball lives.
Kelly Dwyer blogged precisely about this yesterday over at the BDL. He acknowledged LeBron's and the Cavs situation and asked his fellow writers to place a moratorium on writing about LeBrons not so impending free agency.
Well fodder is fodder and so many can't help themselves. We Cavs fans need to develop a tougher skin and bring facts to the arguement, not just emotion and fervor.
Some facts: -Cleveland can offer more money and years to LeBron in terms of contract. -Since the CBA was created, no player offered a max contract has left his orginal team to take less money. Not even Shaq, despite what Terry Pluto has writen and said. This is just not how the NBA works. A player either forces his way out by demanding a sign and trade or gets his money and dogs it until he's traded. -Over YaySports The Cavalier has some much more entertaining thoughts to combat the naysayers.
Take a deep breath and don't let the pundits or internet trolls get you worked up, we'll get through this and then we can wait for it all to start again in 2016.
We follow the Cavs very closely here and our favorite beat writer and Cavs insider is Brian Windhorst. Recently heard Brian is in the hospital with a serious illness. On behalf of Dcass, we want to send along our sincere well wishes to Brian and his family. We're pulling for you and look forward to reading your insight and knowledge soon.
I finally got to updating the stats for the year. Pretty eventful year it was, too. LeBron became all-time leading scorer and only 2nd behind Price for assists. Big Z became all-time leader in personal fouls as well.
Playoff stats will be updated after each round. Hopefully, that's a lot.
On March 21st, 2008, at 23 years old, LeBron James passed Brad Daugherty to be the Cleveland Cavaliers' All-Time Leading Scorer.
Brad had a great career, but due to severe back issues he was forced to end his career at only 28.
So, cheer for LeBron. He is now officially the face of the franchise (probably forever). But also have a toast to Brad Daugherty, a classy player and person who was part of one of the best eras ever in Cavs History.
Just got done reading "The Franchise" by Brian Windhorst and Terry Pluto. Great book for some insights that only two guys working the Cavs beat for five years could get. I especially liked the section about how Ferry was worried how his time as a Cavs play could both effect his role as a Cavs GM both positively and negatively (also some great insight into Ferry's playing days).
In addition, I think its the perfect sequel to another Cavs book I love "CAVS: From Fitch to Fratello" by Joe Menzer and Burt Graeff. There is a little overlap between the two, but its not a rehash.
So pick it up. I'm a huge fan if Windhorst's writing and maybe if you all buy one he can afford a Porsche or something. Since I moved to LA from Cleveland (i.e. I don't get the Plain Dealer anymore and have to rely on the internet for news) I pretty much only read Brian's stuff for Cavs' news.
LeBron is now gracing three major magazine covers at once.
ESPN the Magazine chose LeBron as the cover manfor their 10th anniversary issue to represent the Next 10 years.
SLAM Magazine has him on the cover for an article about three aspects of his life: Personal, Basketball and Business.
Probably coolest of all, LBJ is on the cover of Vogue... with Giselle. He is only the third man to be on the cover of the magazine in its 116 year history.
At just 23 years old, LeBron James has past the legendary Austin Carr on the Cleveland Cavaliers All-Time Scoring List. As of last night, LeBron has 10,267 career points. Austin has 10,265.
Congrats to LeBron. He needs 122 more points to pass Brad Daugherty to become the All-Time Leading Scorer in Cavaliers History.
While poking around the internet I came across the Beta site for NBA historical data. They don't have everyones picture up yet, but the site works really well. Check it out here
Hiya, One the the top requests that I get for CavsHistory is that it be more searchable. It DOES have a search feature in the Players Section where you can search for a player by name, number or position. But it seems that either not a lot of people know about it or its just not that cool.
So, to respond to demand there is now a Google Search widget on the home page. The format is not finalized (need to get it to conform to the site layout a little better. It seems to work pretty good.
LeBron went off in the second half of the Kicks game and ended up with 50p 8r 10a 4s. That's a good night.
But, what made this blog worthy is some dude tried to "get him" in the fourth quarter at MSG LBJ actually gave the dude some respect before security "escorted" him out.
(UPDATE: So according to reports, the kid who ran across the court and got to LeBron should LeBron's hand and said he was a big fan. LeBron didn't even flinch. He just said: "Thanks, What's up?"
Here's my thing, if a dude sprinted towards me, and I'm on the court, and I'm in NYC AND I'm a celeb like LBJ. I wouldn't be saying "what's up?" Guess he's cool like that.)
The Cavs signed these guys from the Colorado 14ers because they only have six active players for tonight. I don't think these are 10 day contracts, but rather "call-ups." Either way, they get to tell their kids they played with LeBron James.
If you didn't stay up to watch the Lebron-less Cavs take on the Sonics, you missed a humorous situation. Donyell Marshall's jersey came off when he took his warm-up jacket off to enter the game. Kind of funny, probably embarrassing for Marshall, but Lebron was literally LOL-ing....in excess. Now, we laughed like this the first time we saw the sex scene in "Team America" or even the beans scene in "Blazing Saddles" when we were like 10, but this just didn't strike us as that funny. Maybe because it was late.
According to everyone, including NBA.com, Z should get his third trip to the all-star game this year. He is having a fantastic year, especially on the boards. On a personal note: I think Z is cool.
I think if he got this it should secure his number in the rafters of the Q. 11 years with the Cavs, 3 trips to the All-Star Game, one trip to the NBA Finals. (Again, I'm a big Z guy, so take this with a grain of salt)
LBJ was voted to start in the All-Star game in the Big Easy. He got the 2nd most votes in the league with 2,108,831 (because the chowda-heads took care of their own giving Garnett 2,399,148). If you're counting, that is four starts in a row.
Over at Yahoo! Sports Kelly Dwyer is blogging and has an interesting perspective about Larry Hughes. We have to admit, we were pretty psyched when Hughes signed and looked forward to big things. We even considered purchasing a Hughes jersey. Good thing we didn't. That would have been more embarrassing than the Charlie Frye jersey hanging in our closet. Talk about hitching our wagon to the wrong horse.
Obviously, the Hughes experiment hasn't worked out, but we're getting to the point where its just piling on to mention the monumental failure this has become. We get it, he doesn't fit with this team.
Is that a camera or a phone clipped to that lady's bikini bottom? Gotta do what you gotta do, I guess.
We know we're not your source for Cavs news, but we're trying to get ISO-9000 certified so we have to document everything. With that in mind, Mike Brown received a contract extension the other day. Brown is in a tough predicament, when the Cavs win, it's because of Lebron, when they lose, it's because of him. That's the way it is for an NBA coach and he'll be getting paid handsomely for it. Brown has done well as the head coach, we realize his rotations can be head scratching, his offense mind numbing and his hope to recreate some variation of '2 girls 1 cup' on the sideline, by hacking luggies into a cup, disgusting (not nearly as disturbing as the original), but he has delivered on his promise to make the Cavs a defense first team. When the Cavs play defense, they win. It's that simple and it took them far last year.
Like it or lump it, Mike Brown is going to be around for a while. We're hoping he does wel enough to keep Lebron around for a while too.
