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| Trans. May 1 5:17 ET Ice Cube opened the Big 3 draft. (Getty Images) In February, when more details of Ice Cube’s Big 3 basketball league were emerging, from the four-point shot to the inclusion of Allen Iverson and Ricky Davis, I was irrationally excited, and the fact this The Scoop: None. May 1 5:17 ET |
| Trans. Oct 30 1:00 ET LeBron James watches the Cavaliers and Wizards in 2003, for some reason. The defeat dropped the Cavs to 12-56 on the season, as the Cavs were no match for Tracy McGrady’s 39 points in the Orlando win. Five Cavaliers scored in double-figures that night, but those five happened to include Ricky Davis, Jumaine Jones, Chris Mihm, and leading scorer Milt Palacio. The Scoop: None. Oct 30 1:00 ET |
| Trans. Aug 10 3:23 ET You’re in your second semester of AP Basketball History, you love really good teams, and you love lists. With precious little drama left in the NBA’s 2015 offseason, why don’t we hit the barroom and/or barbershop, pour ourselves a frosty mug of Barbicide, and get to arguin’ over each franchise’s most formidable starting five-man lineup. [ Follow Dunks Don't Lie on Tumblr: The best slams from all of basketball ] Because we don’t like making tough decisions, the lineups will reflect the All-NBA line of thinking. There will be no differentiation between separate forward and guard positions, and the squads will be chosen after careful consideration of individual merits only – we don’t really care if your team’s top shooting guard and point guard don’t get along. These rankings will roll out based on when each franchise began its NBA life. We continue with the Cleveland Cavaliers, a team that can’t seem to stop their fans from laughing or crying. C: Zydrunas Ilgauskas . Big Z was done, around the fin de siècle. He was Bill Walton, without the MVP trophy and two rings. He was a big guy with brittle bones and a terrible uniform and he wasn’t ever going to come back from the stress fractures that knocked him out for 195 out of 214 games between Feb. of 1999 and Dec. of 2001. He worked at things, though. He took his time and he made smart decisions and he came back, dammit. He never won a ring in Cleveland and his 13.8-point, 7.7-rebound averages (in just 27 minutes) as a Cav may not wow you, but he’s the best center this team has ever had. F: LeBron James . The best player of his generation. If he continues apace and stays on for another five or six years, will retire as the greatest NBA player of all time. Left Cleveland in a tone deaf, unceremonious fashion in 2010 but his renewed presence will provide the team with the ability to act as championship contenders for years. Has put up with Darius Miles, Ricky Davis, J.R. Smith, several lacking coaching and front office staffs without turning to the drink. Has also become the Joan Cusack of his acting generation . Averages of 27.5 points, seven rebounds, seven assists and 2.6 combined steals/blocks as a Cavalier are pretty good. F: Larry Nance. A two-time All-Star with the Cavs, Nance was a midseason acquisition that was able to put ego aside and ably blend his talents into a Cavalier group that had several mouths to feed. Though he was working on the downside of his career, Nance still helped push Cleveland over the top and into a series of playoff berths that were routinely shot to bits by the looming presence of Michael Jordan in Chicago. G: Mark Price. A killer guard that would dominate today, Price split-screened his way into four All-Star berths and 19-point, 8.3-assist averages with a litany of Cavs squads that fought for the Eastern title during the Conference’s heartiest era. Known to heave when the shot was considered just above a gimmick, Price shot over 40 percent from the three-point line as a member of the Cavaliers. G: Austin Carr. Best known now for his endearingly earnest work as a Cavalier television analyst, Carr was the mainstay through years both lean and promising in the first decade of the franchise. An all-out swingman scorer, Carr averaged over 20 points per game three times with the team and made one All-Star team before seeing his minutes cut as more famous players made their way toward northern Ohio. Brad Daugherty should be angry. He played his tail off for several championship-level Cavalier teams and averaged 19 and 8 before back issues forced him to step aside. And yet, as has been our routine throughout these lists, longevity rules – Big Z outpaced Daugherty in that realm, somehow, so he barely noses ahead. Meanwhile, while the criminally underreported Miracle of Richfield had its unlikely star in Nate Thurmond, his short stint with the Cavs (which saw him backing up the also-underreported play of Jim Chones) just didn’t make the cut. (Seriously, though, Daugherty was awesome.) Terrell Brandon will be discussed at length at Ball Don’t Lie later this week. Ron Harper is this author’s favorite player of all time, but he did not play long enough with the Cavaliers to push for a starting nod. Andre Miller led the NBA in assists during one campaign as a Cavalier, but only played for three seasons with the team. Bingo Smith was a fixture on the team’s 1970s clubs, but he’ll have to come off the bench here. It speaks to Kyrie Irving’s brilliance and the Cavaliers’ unfortunate history that he is as good a candidate as any to serve as the sixth man on this all-time club after just a few years with the franchise. Previous entries : Golden State . Boston . New York . Detroit . Sacramento . Los Angeles Lakers . Atlanta . Philadelphia . Washington . Chicago . Houston . Seattle/Oklahoma City . Phoenix . Milwaukee . Los Angeles Clippers . - - - - - - - Kelly Dwyer is an editor for Ball Don't Lie on Yahoo Sports. Have a tip? Email him at KDonhoops@yahoo.com or follow him on Twitter! Follow @KDonhoops The Scoop: None. Aug 10 3:23 ET |
| Trans. Nov 11 3:10 ET LeBron James registered the fourth triple-double of the NBA season, his first since returning to Cleveland and the 38th of his career — reestablishing himself as the Most Valuable Player candidate to beat and righting the Cavaliers' ship in Monday's 118-111 win over Anthony Davis and the New Orleans Pelicans. Or did he? Much of that statement remains true, but the NBA rescinded LeBron's triple-double, removing a rebound and an assist from his line of 32 points, 12 boards and 10 assists, per ProBasketballTalk's Kurt Helin . It doesn't mean much in the grand scheme of things, unless you're Fat Lever holding off James in the context of historical triple-doubles or you were on either end of a daily fantasy league battle decided by a matter of points involving LeBron, which this scribe may or may not have been. NBA Reddit user Timi093 brought the issue to light on Tuesday, pointing out an assist awarded to LeBron that should have been credited to teammate Tristan Thompson, if anybody. (Kyrie Irving took four transition dibbles to score a basket that cut the Pelicans lead to 78-75 with 3:27 left in the third quarter.) Meanwhile, Vantage Sports took the proverbial ball and dribbled it a step further , noting LeBron was credited with a rebound on the same play when his "tip to possession" also gave Thompson the board. So, Fat Lever's 43 career triple-doubles are safe for a little while longer, and Thompson will have an additional rebound and assist on his resume when his restricted free agency commences come July. Weirdly, this isn't the first time LeBron has been stripped of a triple-double . During his last regular-season stint in a wine-and-gold Cavaliers uniform, he had a rebound lifted from a remarkable line of 52 points, 11 assists and 10 rebounds against the New York Knicks in Madison Square Garden on Feb. 4, 2009 — the league's first 50-point triple-double since Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's in 1975. Or so we thought. For the time being, point guards Chris Paul, Rajon Rondo and Kyle Lowry remain the only players to reach double figures in three statistical categories this season. Perhaps next time LeBron should consider the approach perfected by former Cavaliers teammate Ricky Davis, padding his own stats and turning it up to 11 "Spinal Tap"-style in order to avoid another triple-double that wasn't. - - - - - - - Ben Rohrbach is a contributor for Ball Don't Lie and Shutdown Corner on Yahoo Sports. Have a tip? Email him at rohrbach_ben@yahoo.com or follow him on Twitter! Follow @brohrbach The Scoop: None. Nov 11 3:10 ET |
