LeBron POW for Week Ending Dec 28th

LeBron won player of the week again. Check out the article here

CLEVELAND, OH – December 29th, 2008 – Cleveland Cavaliers forward LeBron James was named today as the NBA’s Eastern Conference Player of the Week for games played Monday, December 22nd through Sunday, December 28th.

In three games during the week, James averaged 26.0 points on .527 shooting, 6.7 assists, 6.7 rebounds and 2.0 steals in 39.7 minutes per game. James has now won the award 16 times in his career: for the third time this season and already equaling his total for 2007-08, twice in 2006-07, five times in 2005-06 and on three occasions during the 2004-05 campaign.

In receiving the award for the third time this season, James and the Cavaliers are off to their best start in franchise history (26-4). With three wins at home during the week, they extended their undefeated home record to 16-0 and remain the only undefeated team at home this season in the NBA.

James scored 15 of his game-high 27 points in the third quarter against Houston on December 23rd to lead the Cavs to a 99-90 victory. He also added a game-high nine rebounds and five assists.

In the game versus Washington on December 25th, he finished with 18 points, five rebounds and six assists. The Cavaliers were down by seven points with 1:40 remaining in the fourth quarter and closed the game on an 11-0 run against the Wizards to come back and win the game 93-89. James led the rally with nine points, three rebounds and two assists in the final period.

On December 28th, James scored 33 points and tallied six rebounds and nine assists, including 11 points, three rebounds and four assists in the fourth quarter comeback versus Miami. Heading into the fourth quarter, the Cavaliers were down by nine points but Cleveland outscored the Heat 35-19 to win their sixth consecutive game.

The Los Angeles Lakers’ Kobe Bryant was named the Western Conference Player of the Week. Other nominees for the Eastern Conference Player of the Week were Atlanta’s Joe Johnson, Charlotte’s Gerald Wallace, Cleveland’s Mo Williams, Detroit’s Rodney Stuckey, Miami’s Dwyane Wade, Orlando’s Rashard Lewis and Toronto’s Jermaine O’Neal.

LeBron James Named Player of the Month for November 2008

No surprise here. Cavs are 14-3 and LeBron’s stats are sick.

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PotW Again

LeBron is Player of the Week for the Eastern Conference for the 2nd straight week.

Check out all his awards here

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LeBron James was named today as the NBA’s Eastern Conference Player of the Week for the second straight week for games played Monday, November 10th through Sunday, November 16th.

In three games during the week, James averaged an NBA-high 33.7 points on .600 shooting, 8.0 assists and 6.0 rebounds in 41.0 minutes per game. James has now won the award 15 times in his career: for the second time this season, three times during 2007-08, twice in 2006-07, five times in 2005-06 and on three occasions during the 2004-05 campaign.

On November 11th, James scored 41 points for the third time this season and tallied five rebounds, six assists and three steals versus Milwaukee. James became the first player since Michael Jordan in 1991 to reach the 40-point mark at least three times in his team’s first eight games of a season.

In the game against the Nuggets on November 13th, he finished with 22 points, eight rebounds, 11 assists and three steals. On November 15th, James scored a game-high 38 points, including 16 points on 6-10 shooting in the fourth quarter, and added five rebounds, seven assists, two blocks and two steals against the Jazz. The Cavs went 3-0 during the week and currently own the NBA’s longest winning streak at seven games.

LeBron Named Player of the Week for Week Ending Nov. 09, 2008

LeBron gets his 14th player of the week award for the East.

James’ league-best 34.5 ppg last week helped Cleveland to a 4-0 mark. With wins over Dallas, Indiana and Chicago twice, the Cavaliers upped their season record to 5-2 and sit alone atop the Central Division. James added 9.8 rebounds, 5.3 assists, 1.8 steals and 1.3 blocks per contest.

With his second steal against Dallas on Nov. 3, James became the youngest (23 years, 308 days) and fastest (395 games) to eclipse the following milestones: 10,000 points, 2,500 rebounds, 2,500 assists, 700 steals and 300 blocks.

Here’s last week’s recap:

Nov. 3 at Dallas: Tallied 29 points, eight rebounds, three assists and two steals in a 100-81 victory over the Mavericks.

Nov. 5 vs. Chicago: Scored a season high 41 points, and added nine rebounds, six assists and four steals in a 107-93 win over the Bulls.


Nov. 7 vs. Indiana: Recorded 27 points, nine rebounds, eight assists and four blocks in a 111-107 win over the Pacers.

Nov. 8 at Chicago: Matched a season high with 41 points and added 13 rebounds and four assists in a 106-97 win against the Bulls.

You guys know I keep track of this kind of stuff here, right?
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Powder

The new Nike LeBron Commercials are starting to show up.

Here is the one named “Powder”.

Remember, they are all on the commercials page here

LBJ Unveils the Nike Air Zoom LeBron VI in China

I buy all of LBJ’s shoes when they come out… it’s a hobby I guess. But they are not really “wearable” outside of the gym. Not like Jordan’s (some of them). They are cool looking, but not out on the street. But these look very different. Can totally see lots of people sportin’ ’em in jeans.

Check out the page here

A little upkeep

long time no see.
i finally added the stats from the playoffs here

and added our good friend Mo Williams to the club

Cavs Sign First Round Pick J.J. Hickson

Cavs went ahead and signed J.J. Hickson to a multi-year contract on July 12th

The 6-foot-9 power forward led the Atlantic Coast Conference in field goal percentage last season at .591, while averaging 14.8 points and 8.5 rebounds for North Carolina State. He will make his professional debut next week as part of Cleveland’s team at the NBA Summer League in Las Vegas.

p.s. he was born in 1988… yes… we are old

Not this $%^* again

Every where I click, listen or read pundits are lining up to opine about Lebron going to New York or Brooklyn or New Jersey or anywhere but Cleveland. Granted, LeBron is fueling the fire by waxing so eloquently about those destinations, but to read into everything the man says is pointless. We’re two years away from any decision and the Cavs management is definitely on the clock, but so many things can change while NY waits for him to save their basketball lives.

Kelly Dwyer blogged precisely about this yesterday over at the BDL. He acknowledged LeBron’s and the Cavs situation and asked his fellow writers to place a moratorium on writing about LeBrons not so impending free agency.

Well fodder is fodder and so many can’t help themselves. We Cavs fans need to develop a tougher skin and bring facts to the arguement, not just emotion and fervor.

Some facts:
-Cleveland can offer more money and years to LeBron in terms of contract.
-Since the CBA was created, no player offered a max contract has left his orginal team to take less money. Not even Shaq, despite what Terry Pluto has writen and said. This is just not how the NBA works. A player either forces his way out by demanding a sign and trade or gets his money and dogs it until he’s traded.
-Over YaySports The Cavalier has some much more entertaining thoughts to combat the naysayers.

Take a deep breath and don’t let the pundits or internet trolls get you worked up, we’ll get through this and then we can wait for it all to start again in 2016.

Get Well Wishes

We follow the Cavs very closely here and our favorite beat writer and Cavs insider is Brian Windhorst. Recently heard Brian is in the hospital with a serious illness. On behalf of Dcass, we want to send along our sincere well wishes to Brian and his family. We’re pulling for you and look forward to reading your insight and knowledge soon.

Get Well Soon.

Crunch and Dcass