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I would give credence to speculation like this from only a handful of NBA writers. Marc Spears of Yahoo! comes to mind, so does Chris Broussard of ESPN. I can mention a few other names as well, but the list is short: shorter than the reins Kobe Bryant has on the mercurial Ron Artest to fit in with the Lakers.
Derek Shelton, sunglasses shielding his eyes from a late afternoon sun, leaned against the netting on the batting cage as he looked on while Asdrubal Cabrera took his pregame swings.
The fragile psyche of Delonte West could use a break, but if the frustrations with life that drove the Cavaliers guard to ride around the Metro D.C. area armed like a mercenary weighed on him, how must West feel with the weight of the legal system on his tattooed shoulders?
- Shaquille O'Neal has waited since June for this day, a moment in this man's storied NBA career where he could begin helping LeBron James and his hometown fulfill a dream. For their dream is also Shaq's dream; he wants what they have long wanted: a championship.
The Shaquille O’Neal era debuts Tuesday night at The Q, but nobody, even Shaq, can be sure what it portends for the Cavaliers.
Hill: For the better part of sports history in America, no piece of sports equipment has engendered the kind of affection or candy-coated reflections as a man’s first baseball glove.
INDEPENDENCE, Ohio - Cavaliers fans have waited awhile for someone like Shaquille O’Neal to arrive. Since 2003, they have been longing for another star, some gifted player who might be an able complement for the supernova they already had in LeBron James.
- He came home early, following the Yankees into town Thursday afternoon on the team’s day off.
- LeBron James understood what awaited him as he dressed Thursday night for Game 5. If things went for James the way they had gone in earlier games, he would not see a Game 6 in the Eastern Conference finals.
- LeBron James would not duplicate his last-second heroics of Game 2. His shot from the far reaches of Amway Arena banged off the glass and to the floor Tuesday night in Game 4, sending James and his Cavaliers teammates back here in a 3-1 deficit.
- Simply the best ... what else can anybody say about LeBron James?
- In a game with more twists than “Slumdog Millionaire,” Orlando Magic coach Stan Van Gundy sat in his postgame interview and took the long view of what this single win meant in an Eastern Conference finals that will require four wins for his team to move on.
- LeBron James dismissed the thought.
- I was talking to a friend Tuesday about a T-shirt his father often wears. On it are various years that salute the limited successes the sports teams here have had over the past 75 years.
- The suggestion was the Cleveland Cavaliers have played two dull series in the playoffs. Their games have been, as somebody put it, absent drama.
- Shortly after the Atlanta Hawks lost here Tuesday night, Joe Johnson accused his teammates of giving up in the game’s second half.
CLEVELAND - Just say Mo knows.
- You had to feel for the Atlanta Hawks.
- Bob Madden sighs. He wants to believe. Oh, does he want to believe — to believe deep inside his body where feelings like these have only caused him four decades of heartbreak.
CLEVELAND - Pardon the Cleveland Cavaliers if they’ll need two or three quarters Tuesday night to rediscover what playoff basketball feels like.
Standing in the batter’s box and waiting for Yankees left-hander Andy Pettitte to make his 1-1 pitch, J.D. Drew sensed that Red Sox teammate Jacoby Ellsbury had larceny on his mind.
Detroit Pistons general manager Joe Dumars gambled and lost. Dumars bet a lot on this season when trading for the aging Allen Iverson and hoping he was, indeed, the answer to getting the Pistons another NBA title.
Coach Mike Brown stresses one word when he describes the biggest difference he sees in this version of his Cleveland Cavaliers when compared to earlier versions.
CLEVELAND - The greatest show in Cleveland takes its high-wire act on the road Friday night.
With the bright lights on him, LeBron James stood near midcourt and went through his pregame ritual Tuesday night. James grabbed a fistful of white powder, rubbed it into his palms, took the residue and flung it skyward.
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