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2017-03-15
Cavs Cruise in 128-96 Victory Over Pistons | Cleveland Plain Dealer
The Cavs won big at home against the Pistons behind an efficient triple-double from LeBron James and lights out shooting. Larry Sanders even made his debut!
.@l8show_thegoat gets a nice hand for his @Cavs debut 👏 pic.twitter.com/jgQBboANpO
— SLAM (@SLAMonline) March 15, 2017
LeBron James is the 1st Cavaliers player with at least 10 triple-doubles in a season in franchise history. (via @EliasSports) pic.twitter.com/yFGaygkC8t
— SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) March 15, 2017
Larry Sanders Thankful | Cavs.com
Larry Sanders thankful for the opportunity with the team. He likely will be playing a lot in Canton to build his strength and conditioning up.
Larry Sanders' road back to the NBA and the defending champion Cavs. @ShamsCharania video essay. pic.twitter.com/eieAIIuEzF
— Ball Don’t Lie (@Balldontlie) March 13, 2017
David Griffin: “He can be a game changer” | Cavs.com
Cavs GM David Griffin was very excited to add Larry Sanders.
#Cavs GM David Griffin said that the team would've brought in Larry Sanders regardless of Andrew Bogut's injury
— Daryl Ruiter (@RuiterWrongFAN) March 14, 2017
Kevin Love expected back starting on Saturday | Associated Press
David Griffin Anticipates Love Back for Road Trip | ESPN
Per Cavaliers General Manager David Griffin, Kevin Love is going to beat the six week timetable and suit up starting on the road trip on Saturday against the Clippers.
Love even went as far to tease a return but was more likely just excited with his progress and bobblehead night.
Don't think he is playing tonight. More likely dressing up for his bobblehead night tonight. pic.twitter.com/dwlVsSoKhQ
— Cavs:TheBlog (@CavsTheTweets) March 14, 2017
Kyrie Irving’s Dream Includes Jordan McRae | CBS Sports
In the Cavs players led podcast “Road Trippin”, Kyrie Irving said Jordan McRae said “good bye” to him.
Cleveland Q Transformation Details | Cleveland Plain Dealer
Quicken Loans Arena will be getting some serious enhancements, here’s some details regarding the process and costs.
Love is real. Love is back.
Shoutout to the Delly Lama tonight… MFQ tonight for the Bucks… pulling out a great game in LA tonight.
Uh oh… spoke too soon. LA with a chance!
LOL Delly and Monroe with some tough defense on Griffin! Griffin misses the shot in the paint!
He’s been good the last 8 games, though he was bad for a long stretch after coming back from injury. Having Middleton helps too because the Bucks don’t have much BBIQ apart from him.
Guess he’s earning that contract.
From McMenamin’s piece on Love today…
“As far as the Cavs’ overall health goes, Lue said Korver has been feeling better from the sore left foot that’s caused him to miss the past four games. He added that Love would be on an unspecified minutes restriction when he returns, at which point Smith would join Love in the starting lineup so the Cavs could deploy the lineup that won them the championship last June.”
Good.
Fully operational!!!!!!
http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/18869287/wonky-tonkiest-nitty-grittiest-most-analytically-correct-mvp-debate-all
Jeremiah Englemen with his Curry bias showing full force. Dude and espn aren’t even trying to push in season RPM anymore, for obvious reasons.
No one is going to vote for Curry after Curry choked the last two Finals.
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This was my favorite comment on the ESPN page (without actually reading the hot garbage that Jerry is trying to peddle)…
Engelmann: “Curry is playing a hair worse than last year.”
Curry 2016: 17.9 win shares, led NBA
Curry 2017: 9.4 win shares, not in the top 10
Curry sucks. The Warriors are an insufferable collection of arrogant jerks.
I can’t believe I read that crap. Notable to me how they drone quite a bit about how MVP means “if you take this guy off the team, they’re not contenders,” then completely fail to mention Lebron AT ALL regarding that analysis. This team can’t win a single GAME without LBJ, much less contend for the Title. I wan’t that 10 minutes back.
This is silly – a few of them make the argument that mvp is the player most improving a teams chance at a championship, but fail to observe the cavs arent even a playoff team without lebron.
By that measure, i think its the golden poo versus lebron
Shocking/sarcasm. Especially considering the Warriors are barely a contender without Durant. Curry isn’t even the best player on his own team.
Can’t wait to sign stretch pay Mozgov next year.
Sorry, I meant NBA Champion Timofey Mozgov.
Nice
I believe nba champion sasha kaun is still available…
If Larry ends up doing well in Canton, it should be interesting to see if he makes the postseason roster. I believe the Cavs can only carry 13.
It’d be down to what, Felder for sure and Jones/Sanders?
Lebron, Kyrie, Love, JR, TT, Korver, Shump, Jefferson, Frye, Dwill, Dwill, James Jones, Sanders.
He should make it. I guess it would come down to Liggins or Sanders. Liggins we know sucks and Sanders brings something that they don’t have.
Liggins has become your new Delly…
Nah. Liggins has become Nate’s new Delly.
Don’t insult NBA Champion, Matthew Dellavedova like that.
Sanders brings washed up d league player talent? The guy couldn’t score any before. He likely won’t score any now. In other words another defensive presence that can’t shoot threes, might have lost the ability to block shots, and is a twig for his position that will get pushed around way more than TT or Bogut would have. Dude had one decent season. We haven’t seen Sanders, but at least we have actually seen in more than a few games that Liggins has the ability to lock down a position and hit threes at 38%. Just saying, maybe temper the… Read more »
If we need a big body to get some rebounds Sanders is the guy. Liggins doesn’t bring anything that JR, Shump, Korver, RJ doesn’t bring.
Other than having lots more energy and being much better on D.
You’re so right, john. Cavs would probably be better off running Liggins at center than bringing up Sanders.
I mean maybe he ends up being able to contribute, but that contribution will need to come primarily during the regular season for it to have any impact. If he is playing minutes in the postseason, we probably have some serious issues. However, it seems, according to some reports, he/they are intent on having him in Canton most of the time, which kind of negates the point/impact of giving TT some regular season relief.
I forget, is the NBA like baseball where you can change this each round of the post season, or do you have to declare your 13 from the start of the playoffs? I also seem to remember there’s some sort of provision for injuries also…
I only say that because while Sanders might be good for certain matchups, Liggins or Felder might be good for others…
Felder is not good for any matchup.
Idk.
I think you can carry 15 but only have 13 active for each game.
Kyrie’s so weird lol
I find it pretty interesting that Sanders was coming on even if Bogut stayed healthy. It’s more of a play for next year than this year.
Exactly, that’s how I see it too.
But I guess that if he performs well in Canton they might consider playing him in April.
Yes. It certainly looks that way.
I think Griffin was just saying that. It possible, but if Bogut was healthy and fitting in, I dont’ think they would’ve signed him.