Welcome to the STEPY Awards for the Cavs 2013-14 season. The STEPY Awards were established to encourage, recognize and honor the best Cavaliers and the best Cleveland Cavalier mainstream and internet based writing of the season. The two most prestigious awards, the Chuck Heaton Cavs Writer of the Year Award for the best Cavaliers writer […]

This is the ultimate Cavaliers mailbag to finish off the 2013-14 season.   It’s been a great season to write about even though they didn’t make the playoffs, but I just wanted to thank you guys for reading and sharing this year and also thank the Cavs for giving us media access all year to […]

Maybe the Cavaliers could have used a little more help from Zydrunas Ilgauskas this season. HE’S OUR RAFTER MAN. According to a report from the Morning Journal’s Bob Finan, Ilgauskas has not been with the team this season and decided last summer to take the year off.  There were rumors during the draft last summer […]

There has never been a Cavaliers game in the history of the franchise with more team assists than the Cavs managed against the Pistons Wednesday night.   41 assists in one game, including 12 from rookie Matthew Dellavedova.  An NBA season high 26 in the first half.  These were astounding numbers, considering that one of […]

It was, perhaps, the most absurd press conference in the history of the Cleveland Cavaliers franchise.   Kyrie Irving and Dion Waiters were assembled to address rumors that they did not like each other.  Waiters responded that he not only likes Irving, but that he “loves” him, albeit “as a friend”. IRVING AND WAITERS, COMFORTABLE […]

It feels like a basketball town when 18,179 are in attendance for the Cavs on Saturday night in April to watch this game.  It’s an overtime loss that saw the Bobcats win in Cleveland by two in the extra frame, despite a career high 44 points from Kyrie Irving.  For context, the Cleveland Indians, playing […]

The Cleveland Cavaliers were required to beat the Orlando Magic on Wednesday in order to maintain any hope of qualifying for the postseason. In dominating fashion, by a score of 119-98, they accomplished specifically that. The Magic may not have necessarily wanted to win but that’s beside the point. It was a critical game for this […]

Welcome to #CavsRank, the illustrious ranking of the best all-time Cleveland Cavaliers players from some of your favorite Cavs bloggers.  At #6, Stepien Rules has the honor of presenting Mr. Cavalier himself, Number 34, Austin Carr… It beats inside your chest about 36,400,000 times a year.  It moves 2000 gallons of blood through arteries and […]

Darnell Jackson helped lead the Kansas Jayhawks to a national championship before arriving in Cleveland for the 2008-09 campaign. Despite a wrist injury that forced him to miss time at the beginning of the season, Jackson appeared in 51 games for the Cavs as a rookie. While earning minutes in support of a big man […]

It’s a wooden knocking sound.   An AK-47 machine gun firing, maybe two or three at once or maybe even more, in succession.  It is a chorus, over and over and over, expelling ringing spent shells.  In the bright lights cutting through a fog of haze and of two hundred thousand are soldiers swinging brutal rifles […]

Larry Nance was seated alongside Nate Thurmond. Austin Carr and Bobby "Bingo" Smith were to his left. The cutting-edge video tribute roared through the arena with creativity and grace as the legendary Wayne Embry approached the podium. From the designated media area in section 106, I stood watching, listening and remembering. He recalled a European […]

Score: 121-101 Games Back: 4 What we learned against the Spurs: The Cavaliers maybe could’ve made the playoffs if Dion Waiters had been healthy over the last couple weeks. Dion Waiters scored 24 points in less than 24 minutes. If he would’ve been healthy enough to log 30-plus minutes on Tuesday, the Cavaliers might have […]