Let’s face it, this past 2017/18 NBA season for the Cleveland Cavaliers has been ridiculous. From trade demands to trades galore, this isn’t the same inspiring championship winning team we all adored. Yes, nothing lasts forever but it almost feels like this is the end of the Cleveland Cavaliers era which began when LeBron James echoed the words “I’m Coming Home” to the world. Yet we can’t help but feel like all of this is ending quicker than we expected, now we might go back to watching the Cavs tank and tank and tank to the point they become the joke of the NBA.
The Cavs had to endure so much this past season. Never mind the Kyrie Irving trade demand as that trade demand was made to benefit the Cavs more yet two of those players traded to the Cavs would later on be axed and shipped off along with other players who were supposed to reinforce the team but only for locker room drama to weaken the team. Now the Cavs is reduced to a very young and rather inexperienced team that may never get to see the NBA Finals and can only listen to the tales of The Finals by JR Smith, Kevin Love and LeBron James.
Now we’re reduced to watching a single player carry the whole load of a team and it’s inevitable for that player to make his way out of Cleveland, besides he made a promise of bringing a championship to The Land and he has fulfilled that promise. But don’t get it twisted, it’s a delight watching LeBron take charge of every game but it’s a sore to the eyes to watch a man put in so much effort only for his teammates to not deliever the same fire and intensity LeBron brings in to a game. It’s totally unfair.
The Cavs ended the regular season as the fourth seed and that’s enough evidence that this isn’t the same spectacular basketball team that we all enjoyed to watch, most people have rather jumped on the Raptors and 76ers bandwagon. There’s only so much a team can endure but to watch the Cavs struggle unnecessarily is just too much!
Now they’re in the NBA Playoffs playing for their lives IN THE FIRST ROUND against the Indiana Pacers and so far, the Pacers are bossing it out as they’ve already beat the Cavs at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland and have taken a 1-0 lead. And should the Pacers intensify themselves, we could be witnesses one of the greatest upsets in Playoff history that will for surely determine the fate of the Cavs as to if we’ll be seeing a tanking boring Cavs or a Cavs that somehow convinced the King to stay and reset themselves to become the Kings of the East again.
The NBA Playoffs 2018 might just be an early curtain call for the Cleveland Cavaliers. Next year this time, they could be as irrelevant as the Brooklyn Nets.
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