Category Archives: Cavaliers News

  Danny Ferry and Joe Smith made Sports Illustrated top 15 NBA Draft Busts. http://vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/gallery/featured/GAL1141055/1/15/index.htm

Imagine if every player in the league were available and each team had a crack at drafting one, at his current age, in the order of the 2008 NBA draft (first-round picks that were traded have been returned to their original owner). Who would you take to start your team? Here is our first round. […]

Mary Schmitt Boyer from the Plain Dealer brings us up to date. The Cavaliers have made qualifying offers to Daniel Gibson for $972,581 and Delonte West for $2.76 million, meaning they will become restricted free agents on July 1, and the Cavs will have the right to match any offers they receive from other teams. The […]

Most fans know the Cavs need a guard who can create his own shot. If the season opened today, the starting backcourt would probably be Delonte West and Sasha Pavlovic, with Wally Szczerbiak, Damon Jones and Daniel Gibson coming off the bench. None of them would be starting for a serious championship contender. All can […]

Lebron James today had round of interviews to promote the upcoming King for Kids Bike-A-Thon and discussed wide-range of topics around the NBA draft, the University of Akron’s basketball team, and the U.S. Olympic team. He believes Danny Ferry will do a nice job this summer to make the team better, he didn’t say what […]

For several months the Cavaliers, Zydrunas Ilgauskas and the Lithuanian National Team have been involved in a complex dispute over allowing him to play in this summer’s Olympics. From the Cavs’ standpoint — the only one that matters in this case — the matter is now closed. http://www.ohio.com/sports/cavs/19880959.html

  Ira Newble was all set to return to the Cavaliers last winter. Then Phil Jackson called from Los Angeles. Now Newble is the only player appearing in the NBA Finals for the second straight season. “It worked out for the best,” Newble said, laughing over the phone. http://blog.cleveland.com/sports/2008/06/former_cav_ira_newble_happy_to.html

Cleveland Cavaliers executive Chris Grant decided to stay with the Cavaliers as Danny Ferry’s top aid and rejected a General Manager position with the Atlanta Hawks. According to ESPN, Chris Grant “spent the weekend mulling Atlanta’s proposal” and he was “the only candidate to date who was actually offered the job, which came open May […]