Some big names will be out there. The big spenders will be harder to find. Free agency opens in the NBA on Wednesday, but there should be few fireworks this July. The blockbuster trades were last week, and the real free agent bonanza is next year. Financial difficulties, combined with the potential of one of the best classes ever in 2010, will have most teams keeping their check books closed this...
Keep up with all the latest news and notes leading up to the draft.
Keep up with all the latest news and notes leading up to the draft.
Keep up with all the latest news and notes leading up to the draft.
Keep up with all the latest news and notes leading up to the draft.
With millions at stake, the line between boom and bust can be razor thin.
Keep up with all the latest news and notes leading up to the draft.
LeBron James wanted Shaquille O'Neal. The Cavaliers gave him Shaquille O'Neal – for better or worse.
The Cavaliers have reached an agreement in principle to acquire Suns center Shaquille O'Neal for Ben...
New Cleveland Cavaliers center Shaquille O'Neal will wear No. 33 on the back of his quadruple XL wine and...
Every weekday morning, Ball Don't Lie serves up a handful of NBA-related stories to digest with your OJ.
The deal that sends Shaquille O'Neal to the Cleveland Cavaliers had a ripped effect in New York Thursday...
Ball Don't Lie combined with SB Nation (and a few others) to put together this epic 2009 Mock Draft.
Shaquille O'Neal hasn't picked out a house in Cleveland yet. He has chosen a jersey number -- his old one. Shaq is going back to No. 33. Traded to the Cleveland Cavaliers on Thursday, the 15-time All-Star has decided to wear 33, the team confirmed Friday. That's the number O'Neal wore in high school and at LSU before turning pro.
The Orlando Magic won the Eastern Conference title by handling everything that LeBron James and Cleveland Cavaliers threw at them on the court. The Magic started an early defense of their conference supremacy on Thursday by trying to match the Cavaliers in a battle of blockbuster draft-day trades. Hours after Cleveland acquired Shaquille O'Neal from Phoenix to play alongside King James, Orlando...
LeBron James is a unique talent, a once-in-a-generation player who has lifted a franchise to unprecedented heights. He's also a red-carpet celebrity whose circle of friends includes billionaire business moguls and rap stars. There are few like him. On Thursday, the Cleveland Cavaliers added someone just as big.
Hoping to give LeBron James the missing piece he needs for a title, the Cavs traded for Shaquille O'Neal.
Cleveland made the most of draft day with a big trade, but the Pacers bit way too early on a college star.
One is the King, a reigning MVP who at age 24 needs only a championship to complete his resume. The other is a larger-than-life personality who may be past the prime of his career but remains an undeniable force and hungers for a fifth NBA title. LeBron and Shaq. Teammates. The Cleveland Cavaliers executed a blockbuster trade Thursday to unite the superstars, acquiring Shaquille O'Neal from the...
The Phoenix Suns have traded Shaquille O'Neal to the Cleveland Cavaliers for Ben Wallace, Sasha Pavlovic, a second-round draft pick and cash, according to a Yahoo! Sports report. The deal, one day before the NBA draft, had been rumored for months. The 37-year-old O'Neal had one year left on his contract with the Suns.
The Cleveland Cavaliers are close to acquiring center Shaquille O'Neal in a trade that would pair him with MVP LeBron James, multiple people with knowledge of the deal told The Associated Press early Thursday. The Cavs and Phoenix Suns have reached an agreement in principle on the deal, which gives Cleveland two of the league's biggest superstars.
Cleveland Cavaliers guard Tarence Kinsey Jr. has been charged with drunken driving. Hillsborough County Jail's online records show that Kinsey, a high school standout at Tampa's Jefferson High School, was arrested for DUI early Wednesday morning and later released on his own recognizance. Kinsey joined the Cavaliers as a free agent last August and averaged 2.0 points in 50 games last season.
With the NBA Draft just a day away, Ball Don't Lie has decided to weigh in with its own 2009 Mock Draft.
Blake Griffin heard the doubters who wondered why he was joining a college team coming off a 16-15 season. "A lot of people, when I committed to Oklahoma, asked me, 'Why did you commit there? Why didn't you go to Kansas or Duke or somewhere like that?"' he recalled Tuesday. "I just said, 'You'll see in a couple years.' "I'm a big believer in not always...
LeBron James is moving his King's Academy summer basketball camp from his hometown of Akron, Ohio, to the campus of UC San Diego. The NBA MVP and star of the Cleveland Cavaliers has scheduled his camp, for boys and girls between 8 and 18, for July 24-28. Moving the King's Academy gives kids in another part of the country the chance to experience it, camp director Damon Haley said Monday.
Sources say the Kings are growing less inclined to trade up for the Grizzlies' No. 2 pick.
The group of Chinese investors, who recently bought into the Cleveland Cavaliers, want to sign Yao Ming,...
Rockets center Yao Ming has called a possible move to Cleveland an "unknown" amid rumors that the Cavaliers' new Chinese part owners want to sign him. In a recent interview with his hometown Shanghai TV station, Yao said he continued to have "much affection" for the Houston Rockets, the team that took him in the first round of the 2002 draft and with whom he has played all...
Every weekday morning, Ball Don't Lie serves up a handful of NBA-related stories to digest with your tea.
The White House. A movie premiere in Maryland. A store opening in Harlem. LeBron James is making the rounds this summer. Fully recovered after undergoing surgery two weeks ago to have a benign growth on his jaw removed, the NBA's MVP is keeping a busy schedule. On Monday, Cleveland's All-Star forward and a group of close friends visited President Barack Obama and were given a tour of the West...
The Los Angeles Lakers haven't even put the Larry O'Brien Trophy in the case yet and the Chicago...
Two teams battled through the 2009 Finals, providing three close games in five chances, but even with that...
The on again, off again trade talk that would send Shaquille O'Neal from the Phoenix Suns to the Cleveland...
The Cleveland Cavaliers have set out to dispell rumors that Mike Brown, the newly named NBA Coach of the Year,...
Barely a month ago, Jianhua 'Kenny' Huang was relatively unknown outside business circles, just one of many entrepreneurs working to match money and business opportunities across the Pacific. Now, he's shot into the U.S. sports headlines with a bid to buy a chunk of the Cleveland Cavaliers.
Rumor has it the Cleveland Cavaliers are looking for big men. A report from Slam Magazine, a New York-based...
Orlando 103, Cleveland 90 (Orlando wins series, 4-2) The Orlando Magic earned the second Eastern Conference...
Orlando at Cleveland , Game 5 (Orlando leads series, 3-1) Don't like me acting the smartass ?
Orlando shouldn't hesitate to utilize, if for a brief spell, Jameer Nelson. Where's the harm?
LeBron James embarrassed himself after the East finals. The problem? No one will tell him so.
LeBron James stomped out of the East finals, once again raising questions about his future in Cleveland.
LeBron James stomped out of the East finals, once again raising questions about his future in Cleveland.
LeBron James stomped out of the East finals, once again raising questions about his long-term future in Cleveland.
The Orlando Magic have frustrated the defenders of the Cleveland Cavaliers . The New York Times reported that as...
It's doubtful anyone believes the Orlando Magic will shoot as poorly as they did last night during the rest...
For all he has done, and said, in his 13-year NBA career, Kobe Bryant has never had a real-life rival,...
Two of SB Nation's finest, Josh Tucker from Silver Screen and Roll and Ben Q. Rock from Third Quarter Collapse ,...
The NBA is rigged. There is no doubt. The referees are favoring Cleveland and Los Angeles and Denver and Orlando...
Was LeBron James making a fashion statement or a statement about his future when he wore a New York Yankees hat...
Cavaliers star LeBron James has been released from the Cleveland Clinic after a five-hour procedure to remove a benign growth from his jaw a day earlier.
Six years into the LeBron James era, the Cleveland Cavaliers are without an NBA title in a city that has waited 45 years to celebrate any major championship.
Six years into the LeBron James era, the Cleveland Cavaliers are without an NBA title in a city that has waited 45 years to celebrate any major championship. Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert believes his team will break the drought. "We will win a championship for Cleveland, Ohio," Gilbert said Wednesday in a meeting with reporters.
The surprising Eastern Conference finals have delivered strong ratings for TNT. Through four games of the Cleveland-Orlando series, the network was averaging a 5.2 national rating, up 27 percent from last year, when it carried the Western Conference finals between the Los Angeles Lakers and San Antonio Spurs.
Cavaliers star LeBron James had a benign growth removed from his right jaw during a five-hour procedure at the Cleveland Clinic on Tuesday. James has had the condition for several months, but with permission from his treating doctors, he and his family decided to put off the operation until the Cavs completed their season.
Orlando's Eastern Conference championship-clinching victory over Cleveland drew more than 8.3 million viewers, capping a strong series for TNT. The network averaged 8.6 million viewers for the six-game series, a 37 percent increase over its 2008 conference finals coverage. TNT showed the West finals last year, drawing about 6.3 million per game for the Lakers' victory over San Antonio.
Mo Williams' Game 4 guarantee blew up like his swollen left eye. Starting fast and fading late, Williams had 18 points but went scoreless in the fourth quarter and overtime as the Cleveland Cavaliers lost 116-114 Tuesday night to the Orlando Magic to go down 3-1 in the Eastern Conference finals. "I'm a leader on this team.
At 7-foot-9, it's hard to overlook Chinese center Sun Mingming. The comparisons with NBA star Yao Ming are inevitable. Able to dunk while barely leaving the ground, Sun just completed the most successful season of his pro career, helping the Hamamatsu Phoenix to a first-place finish in the Eastern Conference of Japan's professional basketball league.
LeBron James finally talked about not making the NBA finals, and insists Cleveland's loss to Orlando will not impact his future with the Cavaliers. James stormed out of Amway Arena without speaking to the media Saturday night after the Cavs were eliminated with a 103-90 loss to the Magic in Game 6 of the Eastern Conference finals.
Cleveland center Ben Wallace is considering retirement following the Cavaliers' elimination from the playoffs. Wallace, a four-time NBA defensive player of the year, said Sunday that a combination of injuries, declining production and a loss of passion for the game has him thinking about quitting. He plans to sit down with his family before deciding his next move.
The Cleveland Cavaliers have signed an agreement with an investment group from China to become minority owners of the NBA franchise and its arena, a partnership that could impact superstar LeBron James' future with the team. The Asian conglomerate, which includes JianHua Huang, a Chinese businessman who has brokered sponsorship deals with the New York Yankees and other sports franchises in the...
Summer's offseason arrived sooner than Cleveland general manager Danny Ferry had hoped, but it's here. And as he begins to evaluate the Cavaliers, a team that won 66 games in the regular season and 10 in the playoffs, Ferry will compare them to the NBA's elite before reshaping the roster. He'll focus on two in particular: The Orlando Magic and Los Angeles Lakers.
First, Shaquille O'Neal. Now, Ben Wallace. For the second time this season, Orlando coach Stan Van Gundy has accused one of the NBA's biggest, baddest players of flopping. On Monday, Van Gundy said he was bothered by the number of times Wallace and Cleveland Cavaliers point guard Mo Williams dropped to the floor in Game 3 of the Eastern Conference finals against the Magic.
Cleveland Cavaliers guard Mo Williams briefly left Game 3 of the Eastern Conference finals Sunday night after taking an elbow from Orlando's Anthony Johnson above and below the left eye that required four stitches. Johnson drove the lane and extended his elbow, knocking Williams to the floor. Williams was called for a blocking foul, and Johnson was whistled for a flagrant one foul for the play...
In the end, the greatest season in Cleveland Cavaliers' history, the one supposed to end in a title triumph, was like all the others. LeBron James and his teammates came up short. James was selected as the league MVP. Mike Brown, coach of the year. The Cavs won 66 games in the regular season. They were nearly unbeatable at home and won their second Central Division crown in 33 years -- by 25 games.
