Podcast 315: Awards Season

The Cavs and their fans find themselves in unfamiliar territory. Up 2-0 on the Heat, the Wine and Gold appear to be on the best side of the talent gap between themselves and the Miami Heat. Not to jinx anyone, but Cleveland has dominated at times against Miami and has pulled out just enough to win at other times. The’ve looked in complete control at all times. The other unfamiliar territory: being in the thick of the NBA awards season.

To tip off our coverage of the NBA playoffs, we called on our best 3-on-3 squad: Nate Smith, Chris Francis, and Eli Kim (affectionately .known as “The Korean Channing Frye” around these parts). Our trio broke down the series so far and all the latest Cavalier news: Evan Mobley’s Defensive Player of the Year award, Kenny Atkinson’s Coach of the Year from the NBA Coach’s Association, and Payton Pritchard’s theft of Ty Jerome’s 6th man trophy.

The guys got into contract talk a bit: discussing who might be a threat to sign Jerome, and the odds of the guys outside of the “core four” being on the team next season. Mostly, though, it was a celebration of the Cavs playoff run so far, with expectations that the best is yet to come.

Finally, our guys went around the rest of the playoffs and put our spin on each series with some prognostication all the way to the finals. Affter the first sign-off brought, we brought it back for a little bonus as Eli spun the tale of his and Chris’ experience at Cavs vs. Clippers in the player family section and how much fun they had. I know I was pretty touched by how well they repped CtB. I’d give them an award if I could!

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