Live Thread: Cavs @ Nets (#BigAppleWeekend)

The Cavs kick off a two game, two borough, three day weekend in the “city that never sleeps” starting tonight against the Brooklyn Nets at the Barclays Center. And, after a long week of being in the spotlight for just about everything but basketball… what better place than the media capitol of the world to spend a few days? At least Kyrie gets to extend his birthday celebration with his family in New Jersey, LeBron gets to catch up with one of his dream team pals in Melo, and J.R… well, Swish probably gets stuck with Chaka Kaun and the Orange Mamba as his chaperones for the weekend.

Other than the fact that this is yet another back-to-back tonight, there shouldn’t be much the Cavs will need to overcome outside of their own levels of fatigue and boredom. It would be nice if Ty Lue can get the boys to continue to work out the kinks on defense, although the Nets, losers of nine of their last 11 games, shouldn’t put up much of a fight. The Cavs also reportedly have everyone save Mo Gotti available…

#Cavs will have all players available for tonight's game against Nets, except Mo Williams (knee).

— Chris Haynes (@ChrisBHaynes) March 24, 2016

If the Cavs can play even half as well on offense as they did last night against the Bucks, they should be able to rest the starters by the fourth quarter. Prediction: Cavs sleepwalk for a bit before finally cutting down the Nets, 116-94.