posted by SportsAndLady
Lol .01% cavs winning the title. What the fuck ever ESPN. Lebron has been in the last 7 NBA finals, and I see no reason why he wouldn’t get back this year (still the best player on the planet easily). They may be underdogs from there, but one one-hundredth of a percent is laughable.
I get it, LBJ is still the greatest player on the planet but he no longer has KI to help pick up the slack. The pieces they added are nice but unless K-Love comes back and is 'Superman" this team isn't getting back to the NBA Finals.
They may improve on their seeding but they are going to have to run through a gauntlet (Toronto, Boston, maybe Milwaukee or Philly), which they never have since LBJ returned, to get there. They'd beat Philly or Milwaukee in an opening series but I doubt they steam roll them. By the time they get through that, they'd likely face both Toronto & Boston.
As COA said 'I wish the Cavs weren't a pile of shit this year." The overall team looks disinterested, except for LBJ, and even he looked like shit in that month leading up to the trades.
I think most fans think "well, the Cavs have LBJ so it's a given they are going back to the Finals." This, as I'm sure you know, is a much different team. Nothing lasts forever and the decline was bound to happen.
Again, as COA said, it's a damn shame too because I do think the GSW's are ripe to be taken down but it won't be by Houston.