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April 2008

Cavs lose Game 5 and it's back to Washington

April 30, 2008

Tonight's loss was pretty dadgum frustrating. How else to say it when a team has a five-point lead with less than two minutes left, has the ball — and loses. This game was lost for three reasons:
1) Poor offense down the stretch. It's what I wrote for Thursday's Beacon-Journal. The Cavs didn't run an offense [...]

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A view from D.C.

April 30, 2008

Tom Knott of the Washington Times started his column today this way:
"So Brendan Haywood has joined the trash-talking fun by calling LeBron James a crybaby, which is an accurate enough description of someone who believes the Wizards are torturing him with all kinds of medieval devices.
'The delusion of James is encouraged by Mike Brown, who [...]

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A voice of reason … from Washington

April 29, 2008

Antawn Jamison is a pro. Always has been. Be a great addition to the Cavs, if ever the money and wherewithal could be found to add him. Jamison was the one who stated clearly after Game 2 that he knew the Cavs were a good team and he did not want one statement ("overrated") from [...]

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Stevenson fined $25,000

April 28, 2008

The NBA fined Washington Wizards guard DeShawn Stevenson $25,000 Monday, but not for the flagrant foul given to LeBron James. Stevenson was fined for making a "menacing gesture" during the Cavs' Game 4 win. The Washington Post reported Stevenson gave the throat-slash signal to the Cavs bench after a first quarter basket. The league fined [...]

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Cavs lead 3-1 … and the chatter continues

April 28, 2008

It appears the off-court garbage will never cease in this Washington Wizards-Cleveland Cavaliers series. Sunday LeBron James said the Wizards were trying to hurt him. "It ain't working," he said.
Monday, the Wizards, especially Brendan Haywood reacted. The Washington Post reports: After hearing the question about what James said today, Haywood puckered his face up like [...]

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Cavs win Game 4 … and LeBron continues to amaze

April 27, 2008

Be nice to write something new and fresh and amazingly insightful about LeBron James, but it’s difficult. The guy just keeps doing amazing thing after amazing thing. You want scoring, he scores. You want rebounding, he rebounds (and James is a great rebounder). You want defense, he shuts down the other team’s best player. You [...]

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More Jay Z as we head to Game 4

April 27, 2008

This Lebron James-Jay Z/Deshawn Stevenson-Soulja Boy stuff has gone to new lengths. Reports in this morning's Washington Post have Jaz Z writing a new song that tore into Stevenson, and that the song was played at a Washington club called Love early Saturday morning — with James in the house.
The Post said James hosted a [...]

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The Cavs, disease and Irish pubs as we head to Game 4

April 26, 2008

It would be nice at this point to state that we all know what the Cavs will do in Game 4. But we don’t. This is pretty much what happens when a team goes from the highest to the lowest in the course of two games, and that’s what the Cavs did from Game 2 [...]

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Humorous LeBron

April 25, 2008

LeBron James had some interesting reactions to a couple of questions after Game 3. Check out the story here.

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Cavs lose … boy do they lose

April 24, 2008

Well there's something to be said for just getting obliterated. As one of my colleagues in the media said, "No angst over that one."
The Cavs stunk up the joint in losing by a franchise-record 36 Thursday night. They really, really stunk up the joint.
Now it's up to LeBron James to do something about it on [...]

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Agent Zero to start?

April 24, 2008

Here we are in Washington, D.C., and no matter how many times a person visits — or even lives here (which I did in a previous life) — there's always something special about arriving and seeing the monuments and the neighborhoods and the centers of government. Great town. With a great subway system (the Metro). [...]

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Ready for tonight?

April 24, 2008

I saw it live and didn't quite believe it. It's still amazing the second and third time.

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One night before the Cavs-Wizards play in Game 3

April 23, 2008

Some random thoughts with the Cavs in the air heading to Washington for Game 3 –
–Cavs have a longer trip than one might think. They had to fly into Dulles, not National. Some post 9-11 security thing about private planes, I presume.
That means busing from Dulles to the team hotel in our nation’s capital. [...]

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Cavs discuss Game 3

April 23, 2008

Returned from the Cavs practice facility a bit ago, and LeBron James said he thought Brendan Haywood would be suspended for shoving him in Game 2 (Haywood was not suspended). James said nothing the Cavs have done in the playoff series against Washington compares to what Haywood did to him. Clearly, James thought that was [...]

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Cavs embarrass the Wizards, who disintegrate and lose by 30

April 21, 2008

That was a pasting. No other way to put it. Well, there are a few more ways to put it. A drubbing. A rout. An embarrassment – for the Washington Wizards.
Your Cleveland Cavaliers played a sound, smart game, stayed above the junk and had Washington dragging itself out of town for Game 3.
LeBron James led [...]

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What should LeBron expect tonight?

April 21, 2008

Will LeBron James need special protection tonight when the Cavs play the Wizards?
Maybe.
Consider these statements from the Wizards in Monday's Washington Post. The first is from Andray Blatche, about the elbow that James threw to his jaw in Game 1.
"Yeah, he got me, but I didn't really have a problem with it," Blatche said. [...]

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Cavs head to Game 2 — with no respect

April 20, 2008

This Washington Post writer was not very kind to the Cavs. Kind of reflects the national image of the home team.
Tell me, when exactly did the Cavs turn into the Washington Generals?
And this columnist from the Washington Times seems less enamored with LeBron James than we are. Wants him suspended for the next game because [...]

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Cavs beat Wizards

April 19, 2008

Random thoughts from the first game of this series … won by the Cavs.
Ben Wallace had his afro back. I walked by the locker room prior to the game and heard an animated scream from inside: "Ben Wallace is back." Wallace did not have a dramatic impact on the game, but he played well. Probably [...]

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Halftime of Cavs-Wizards

April 19, 2008

All the talk that the words of the Washington Wizards didn't matter … forget that. This is going to be a heated, intense series. The first half was near violent, with LeBron James twice getting clubbed on the way to the basket and then responding with an elbow to the jaw of Andray Blatche, the [...]

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Cavs talk to the media

April 18, 2008

Your Cleveland Cavaliers met the media today to discuss the upcoming playoff series with Washington.
A couple quotes that stood out to me were:
LeBron James: "As long as I'm on the court, we'll be all right. And I mean that."
No argument here.
James: "I can't tell you if we're a better team than last year until we [...]

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Back to the Blog

April 18, 2008

The bosses decided I should give this blog thing a fresh try. It does seem to be all the rage these days. Everyone – including, probably, the neighbor’s kid in the garage – is doing one.
It’s like Old MacDonald — here a blog, there a blog, everywhere a blog [...]

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He's baaaack!!!

April 18, 2008

Pat will begin posting on his blog, starting this weekend with his thoughts on the Cavs-Wizards playoff series.

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