Preseason Podcap: Atlanta 109, Cleveland 93 (or, the Waiting is the Hardest Part)
2017-10-05 Off

Preseason Podcap: Atlanta 109, Cleveland 93 (or, the Waiting is the Hardest Part)

By Nate Smith

With a wistful nod to the recently departed Tom Petty, we embark with the newly constructed Cavaliers on the (seemingly never-ending, but at least a bit shorter) pre-season campaign. In their first of five warm up games that don’t count, the guys in wine & gold red and yellow trimmed tighty-whites (which actually didn’t look half bad), took on the erstwhile Atlanta Hawks and their lone remaining peroxide patched, hookah bar brawler of a point guard, Denis SchrÖeder. The initial results were promising…

Podcast 145: Cajoled Seniors
2017-09-26 Off

Podcast 145: Cajoled Seniors

By EvilGenius

https://soundcloud.com/ctb-5/episode-145-cajoled-seniors Since it was Cavs Media Day, the C:tB ownership triumvirate felt compelled to shuffle their tired old bones into…

You Can Go Your Own Way
2017-09-25 Off

You Can Go Your Own Way

By Nate Smith

Two friends I loved like a brother and sister got divorced last year. Last night someone who’d just found out about it texted me wondering what happened. “Things Fall Apart,” I said, with a nod to Keats and Achebe. The simple answer is the easiest, but behind every decision to walk away, there’s a story. We rarely know all of anyone’s story but our own, and we’re often not self aware enough to even know that. In Kyrie Irving’s case, there’s far more we don’t know than what we do. So we speculate, and as the jilted ones, probably do so bitterly.