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LeBron James seemed to reinjure his right elbow in the Cleveland Cavaliers’ series-clinching victory over the Chicago Bulls.

James scored 19 points — 16 in the second half — and added 10 rebounds and nine assists as the Cavs finally saddled the stubborn Bulls to win the series 4-1.

James doesn’t know when he injured the elbow, which he said bothered him the entire second half. TNT showed replays of James landing on the elbow and grimacing after trying to block a shot early in the second half.

James revealed after the game that he underwent an MRI and X-rays on Monday. Results came back clean, according to the Cavaliers.

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Shaquille O’Neal now has another nickname.

“Grandpa” went through a full contact practice with the Cavaliers on Tuesday at Cleveland Clinic Courts and will be ready to go when the playoffs start this weekend, though it now looks like the 7-foot-1, 325-pound center won’t play in the regular-season finale tonight in Atlanta.

“He looked great,” reserve swingman Jamario Moon said. “He was out there the entire practice being the grandfather, telling everybody what it is. I can’t wait to see him out there.”

O’Neal, who injured his right thumb on Feb. 25, has been cleared to play by team doctors, but coach Mike Brown is leaning toward not playing the 38-year-old tonight.

There are several reasons for that, foremost among them being the fact superstar LeBron James will likely sit for the fourth straight game.

Click here to read the full article – By Rick Noland of http://medinagazette.northcoastnow.com

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LeBron James is expected to return to the Cleveland Cavaliers’ lineup against the Philadelphia 76ers on Friday, while Antawn Jamison will be a game-time decision.

They were just two of six players to miss practice Wednesday for the Cavaliers, who took advantage of a break in the schedule to rest all five of their regular starters.

James missed two games after twisting his right ankle last Friday against Detroit, but is likely to play at Philadelphia, Cleveland coach Mike Brown said. James has played the sixth-most minutes in the league this season, averaging 39 per game.

Jamison won’t practice the rest of the week after revealing Wednesday he has a cyst behind his left knee that is filled with fluid. Shaquille O’Neal continues to rehab following surgery on his right thumb, while Anthony Parker and Mo Williams also took Wednesday off to rest nagging injuries. Key sub Anderson Varejao also missed practice, but it wasn’t clear if he had an injury or just took the day off.

All are expected to play Friday except for O’Neal and perhaps Jamison. An MRI earlier this week showed no damage to the knee and Jamison said it’s the same injury that hampered him early in the season when he was with Washington.

Click here to read the full article – By Associated Press of ESPN.com

When he arrived in Cleveland, Shaquille O’Neal made it clear there would be no more double-teaming Orlando’s Dwight Howard.

He’d handle things himself, as he did Thursday night. Oh, and he wants his cape back.

“I don’t really consider it manning up until you play me straight up,” O’Neal said. “I’ve never doubled anybody. So you tell me who the real Superman is.”
LeBron James had 32 points and 13 assists as the Cavaliers — with a big fourth-quarter defensive effort from O’Neal — matched their franchise record by winning their 13th straight game with a 115-106 victory over the Magic.
It was a rematch of last season’s Eastern Conference finals, and both teams are again on top of the East this year, but O’Neal, who had 10 points and six rebounds on Thursday, has made a huge difference for Cleveland.

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Cleveland Cavaliers forward LeBron James was named today as the NBA’s Eastern Conference Player of the Week for games played Monday, December 21st through Sunday, December 27th.

In four games during the week, James averaged an Eastern Conference-best 29.5 points on .511 shooting, 7.8 rebounds, 7.3 assists and 1.8 steals in 38.0 minutes per game. James wins the award for the second time this season and the 22nd time in his career. He led the team to four consecutive wins during the week (all over Western Conference opponents) and the Cavs have now won nine of their last 10 games, bringing their record to 24-8 on the season, 11-3 overall against the Western Conference and 14-3 (.824) against teams that had at least a .500-record the day of the game.

James finished with 29 points, six rebounds, four assists and two steals in a 109-91 victory over the Suns on December 21st, helping the Cavs become the first team to defeat Phoenix at home this season and handing Phoenix its first home loss since March 12, 2009, a span of 285 days. The Cavaliers are the only opponent to win in Phoenix in the Suns’ last 21 home games. In that span, the Suns are 19-0 against the rest of the NBA and 0-2 against the Cavs.


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Last year, when Mo Williams attached the “All-Star” prefix to his name for the first time, it seemed that he’d entered a more high-profile phase.

There were signs of it, too. A year after not even having a shoe contract, over the summer Williams appeared in his first Nike commercial and now sports his own line of shoes complete with his nickname, “Mo Gotti,” on the tongue.

But on the same team with LeBron James — whose off-court statements can generate as much interest as his on-court play — and Shaquille O’Neal, Williams has shed some of the spotlight. Add in the attention paid to Delonte West and the fast-rising J.J. Hickson, and the first month of the season has left Williams overlooked.


Click here to read the full article – By Brian Windhorst of cleveland.com

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The Cleveland Cavaliers might well be riding a six-game winning streak had they not resorted to one-on-one play and kept settling for long jump shots in their 108-91 loss to the Washington Wizards Wednesday night.

The subpar offensive effort affected the other side of the court, too, as Washington got to run with the basketball after some poor Cavaliers decision-making, and became confident and team-oriented on offense.

Plain Dealer Cavaliers beat writer Brian Windhorst’s game report from Washington is here.

Washington, which has an impressive roster if it can stay healthy, got strong performances from several players, even a solid defensive effort and floor game off the bench from DeShawn Stevenson. He usually seems overwhelmed against the Cavaliers, but that wasn’t the case on Wednesday.

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LeBron James wants to be clear: Championships are more important than cash. Not that the cash isn’t nice.


James on Monday clarified a remark he made last week that a maximum contract next summer isn’t that important to the Cleveland Cavaliers superstar.

“Let’s get this clear: I said the max contract doesn’t mean more than winning,” James said. “I didn’t say ‘I don’t need a max contract’ or ‘I’m not going to get a max contract.’ All I’m saying is that winning is more important to me than money at the end of the day.”

In New York for a game against the Knicks last week, James said “a max deal or anything like that doesn’t really matter to me at the end of the day. It’s all about winning for me.”

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The Cavaliers look vulnerable after two games, mostly because of Shaquille O’Neal’s dead legs and Delonte West’s mental-health break.

O’Neal, as always, is pathologically allergic to the high pick-and-roll or any set that requires his defensive attention on the perimeter.

Teams in need of an open look merely have to set a pick at top of the key extended and O’Neal freezes in place, as if there is an imaginary wall blocking his path.

Andrea Bargnani, the Raptors’ sweet-shooting 7-footer, flourished around O’Neal’s passivity, moving to the perimeter, where he dumped 28 points on the Cavaliers.


Click here to read the full article – By Tom Knott of The Washington Times

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LeBron James and Larry Hughes were teammates with the Cleveland Cavaliers for 2 1/2 seasons.

It became cliche to say that Hughes would be to James what Scottie Pippen was to Michael Jordan with the Chicago Bulls. That, perhaps, was unfair to Hughes, since the versatile Pippen is ranked among the NBA’s all-time greats.

Hughes, now with the New York Knicks, is featured in a story by Frank Isola of the New York Daily News


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