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Wizards End 25-Game Road Losing Streak

February 13, 2011   FanHouse Newswire   No comments

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CLEVELAND (AP) — John Wall raised his arms triumphantly and checked the scoreboard one last time to make sure it showed all zeros.

At last, the rookie knew how it felt to win an NBA road game.

“Like Christmas,” Wall said.

Nick Young scored 31 points, Wall added 19 with 14 assists and the Washington Wizards snapped a 25-game road winless streak to start the season with a 115-100 win Sunday night over the Cleveland Cavaliers, who one game after ending their own historic losing streak fell back on bad habits.

Inspired by a speech over Sunday morning breakfast from coach Flip Saunders, the Wizards built a 25-point lead in the third quarter, held on as Cleveland clawed back within 11 in the fourth and got their first victory away from home since April 9 at Boston.

 

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Cavs Snap Record Losing Streak at 26, Edge Clippers in Overtime

February 11, 2011   FanHouse Newswire   No comments

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Mo WilliamsCLEVELAND (AP) — It’s over. Finally. Barely.

Nearly two months after it started innocently, the Cleveland Cavaliers stopped their NBA-record losing streak at 26 games Friday night with a 126-119 win in overtime against the Los Angeles Clippers, who did all they could to extend the Cavs’ misery.

Cleveland won for the first time since Dec. 18 against the New York Knicks, and had to go an extra five minutes to ensure it didn’t set a record for the longest skid in pro sports history. The Cavs will gladly settle with tying the NFL‘s Tampa Bay Buccaneers for the worst streak among the four major sports.

It’s one they didn’t want to own, and they played like it.

Antawn Jamison scored 35 points and made the game’s biggest basket, a 3-pointer with 22 seconds left in OT for the Cavs. Daniel Gibson scored 10 in overtime and J.J. Hickson, playing like a man possessed all night in a matchup with Blake Griffin, added 27 points and 14 rebounds.

 

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Will It Ever End? Cavs Lose 25th Straight

February 07, 2011   FanHouse Newswire   No comments

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DALLAS (AP) — The Cleveland Cavaliers lost their way into the NBA record book in fitting fashion — not with a blowout, but with the kind of head-slapping plays typical of a team that can’t do anything right.

Like a 7-foot center losing a jump ball to a 6-foot-2 guard. And a decent outside shooter deciding to pass as time expired instead of putting up a potential tying 3-pointer.

The miscues doomed the Cavs to a 99-96 loss to the Dallas Mavericks on Monday night, making it 25 straight losses, the most in league history no matter how it’s counted.

Cleveland set the single-season futility record a few days ago, but the league also keeps an overall losing streak record that takes into account skids stretched over two seasons. This topped that one, too, making the first year of the post-LeBron James era even more forgettable for the Cavaliers. The previous mark also was set by the Cavs, spanning the end of the 1981-82 season and the start of 1982-83.

 

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Cavaliers Lose Single-Season NBA Record 24th Consecutive Game

February 05, 2011   FanHouse Newswire   No comments

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Cleveland CavaliersCLEVELAND (AP) — The Cavaliers have the NBA‘s record for futility all to themselves.

Cleveland’s losing streak reached 24 games on Saturday night as Wesley Matthews scored 31 points and LaMarcus Aldridge added 20 to lead the Portland Trail Blazers to a 111-105 win over the pitiful Cavs, who remain winless in 2011 and have lost a mind-boggling 34 of 35.

The Cavs, who have won just once since Nov. 27, now own both the single-season mark for consecutive losses and matched the record for overall losses in a row they previously set over two seasons (1981-82 and 1982-83). Cleveland nearly overcame a 10-point deficit in the fourth quarter, but once again failed to make plays down the stretch.

Antawn Jamison scored 17 to lead the Cavs, who will try to end their skid on Monday in Dallas.

For much of the night, it appeared the Cavaliers might finally end a slide that shows no signs of ending.

Cleveland led early in the fourth quarter, but Rudy Fernandez hit a 3-pointer and the Blazers went on a 15-4 run to open a 105-95 lead. The Cavs didn’t fold, and they responded with a 10-2 spurt to make it 107-105 on Ramon Sessions‘ lay-in with 1:23 left.

 

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Will These Cavs Sink as Low as Old Cavs?

January 26, 2011   Chris Tomasson   No comments

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They were the Edsels of the NBA and the Keystone Kops on wood. But most of all, they were known as the Cadavers.

These Cadavers, though, finally might be buried.

Trouble is, it’s the same team with the shovel.

The Cleveland Cavaliers hold the NBA record for consecutive losses at 24, having dropped their last 19 in 1981-82 and their first five in 1982-83. Now, the LeBron-less gang has lost 18 straight heading into Friday’s home game against Denver.

One more loss and Cleveland will tie its single-season record of 19 defeats in a row. Five more and the Cavaliers will equal the NBA single-season mark of 23 consecutive losses set by Vancouver in 1995-96 and the Nuggets in 1997-98. And it’s six more to tie and seven more to break the granddaddy of all futility streaks.

“I don’t want anybody to go through that misery,” said Geoff Huston, a guard on Cleveland’s record-setting team. “I wouldn’t wish that on my worst enemy.”

 

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Antawn Jamison Says Next Season Could Be His Last

January 15, 2011   Chris Tomasson   No comments

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DENVER — There are four kids at home to look after. There are PTA meetings to attend, although Antawn Jamison later said that might be a stretch for his life after basketball.

The Cleveland forward already has started to think about retirement. He said before Saturday night’s 127-99 loss to Denver at the Pepsi Center that next season, the last on his contract, could be the final one of his NBA career.

“Definitely,” Jamison, 34, said in an interview with FanHouse about that being a possibility. “I’ve done a lot, man. This is my 13th year and next year will be my 14th year. A lot of people don’t get the opportunity to say that they’ve played for that many years. And to know that I’ve left everything I throw on the court has been a blessing for me.”

Jamison, making $13.36 million this season and $15.08 million next season, said there’s a chance he could look to sign on for one more year after that. But then that definitely would be it.

 

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Trail Blazers, Antawn Jamison Should Take Look Around Them

December 09, 2010   Bethlehem Shoals   No comments

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These are dark times for the Portland Trail Blazers, even if they have won two straight heading into Thursday night’s Orlando Magic game. The team rested its future on the Brandon Roy-LaMarcus Aldridge-Greg Oden trinity. Roy is playing without cartilage in either knee; Aldridge, while good, has yet to justify his lofty standing or contract; and Oden is Oden. The future looks bleak, and this once well-laid plan now smacks of nostalgia — and denial.

John Canzano sees it. In Wednesday’s Oregonian, he advocated bold, decisive moves to tear down, then rebuild, the roster. I am not sure if that’s the same as rebuilding. But it certainly is a break with the years of figuring that, once everyone got healthy and mature, these Blazers would take their place among the league’s elite. Just like that. In Canzano’s mind, other than Roy and Oden, everyone on the team must be put in play.

That’s not the same as a fire sale — in the same way that transforming the roster isn’t rebuilding, right? — but it’s the only way for the Blazers to move on. Or forge ahead. Or something.

Roy and Oden don’t make the list, either because of their injuries or because some dreams are just too hard to kill. But Canzano is willing to part with Aldridge. And Andre Miller. And Joel Przybilla. And Rudy Fernandez. The only problem is, I’m not sure that’s enough to turn the franchise around and have it playoff-bound in no time. Here’s Canzano on Aldridge: “LaMarcus Aldridge has big-time value. He’d be the bargaining chip most likely to bring a major shift. And his game isn’t strong enough to make him untouchable.” Translation: He’s half-empty for us, half-full for the rest of the league.

Whether it’s the Blazers in Portland, or Antawn Jamison in Cleveland, some of the NBA’s saddest stories involve people too devoted, or polite, to seize the effin’ day.

 

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Carlos Boozer, Bulls Working Toward Cohesiveness

December 08, 2010   Pat McManamon   No comments

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Carlos BoozerCLEVELAND — One game after he scored 29 points and grabbed 12 rebounds, Carlos Boozer found himself sitting on the bench for the entire fourth quarter of Chicago’s come-from-behind win over the Cleveland Cavaliers.

And Boozer was fine with it. He knows he’s a ways from being everything he can be for Chicago, and that his team has yet to jell — thanks to the fact that he’s played only five games after breaking his pinky in the offseason.

“You’re out so long, and you miss training camp and you miss 15 games, you’re going to be behind a little bit,” Boozer said. “But every day I get a little bit better, a little more comfortable.”

Boozer saw a familiar sight as he watched: Great plays from Derrick Rose, whose driving layup tied the game at 82 with 39.2 seconds left, and whose driving layup and free throw turned an 83-82 deficit into an 85-83 lead with 19.6 seconds left.

The win was the Bulls 12th in 20 games, and kept them in first place in a weak division in the East. The Bulls have done it for 15 of those games without the guy they spent $75 million to sign in the offseason.

 

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Cavs: In-Game Chatter With LeBron Anything but Friendly

December 03, 2010   Pat McManamon   No comments

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CLEVELAND – The Cleveland Cavaliers face some nasty realities following their humiliating loss to the Miami Heat and LeBron James Thursday night.

Starting with, what the heck do they do now?

Everyone knows what the Heat do. They try to prove they are the super team they put together in the offseason.

The task for the Cavs is much more difficult. They are in a fight for relevance. Both in the NBA and in their city.

One day after an embarrassment of a drubbing that had players and its owner apologizing to the world via Twitter in the wee hours, the Cavs are being questioned for a lack of heart and an attitude that — perception-wise, at least — was far more welcoming of their former teammate than the fans cared to see.

The Cavs were questioned for cozying up to James, and lambasted for what was perceived as a lack of heart, for not coming close to matching the intensity of their home crowd.

 

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Antawn Jamison: Don’t Anoint Heat as Champs Just Yet

September 27, 2010   Pat McManamon   No comments

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INDEPENDENCE, Ohio — The Miami Heat may find the going tougher than they and many expect it to be in this NBA season.

That’s the opinion of one Cleveland Cavaliers veteran, who does not see the Heat rolling over the rest of the league now that they have LeBron James and Chris Bosh to go with Dwyane Wade.

“If you ask the other 29 teams, they like the challenge,” Antawn Jamison said Monday at the Cavs’ media day. “I think Phil Jackson said it best: ‘You have to play the games.’ “

Jackson actually went a step further at the Lakers‘ media days, saying that the Lakers are the defending champions, but the Heat are favored.

“It’s an interesting setup,” Jackson said.

Shocking was the word Jamison seemed to prefer. He said that James’ decision was a shock, but once he got over it, the competitive juices started to flow. And the reality became clear.

 

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