The Cavs Schedule Has Dropped! Cleveland Cavaliers News!

The Cavs Schedule Has Dropped! Cleveland Cavaliers News!

[Music] Every video and episode of the Its Cavalier podcast is made possible by my supporters over on Patreon. If you enjoyed the show here today, consider signing up. You’ll get early access, exclusive videos, podcast, member shoutouts, and more. And as always, thank you for watching. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Welcome to another edition of the Yes Cavalier podcast. It’s your boy Mac and tonight, just as you read in the title of the episode, we are here to talk about the Cleveland Cavaliers schedule which was released earlier today. And man, there are some good good matchups here. A lot of them to be exact. 82 game slate as always. You know, you got the uh the cup and whatnot. That’ll be something to discuss later on down the line. But the Cavaliers, they got 24 national TV appearances this season. They got seven games on ESPN, five games on NBC/ Peacock, five Peacock exclusive games, which is crazy to me. And they have additional games on uh they have additional games on Amazon Prime, four to be exact, and three on ABC, which is crazy to me. absolutely insane that this team is gonna get as much exposure as they will this upcoming season. And again, this was probably this was always probably going to be the case, especially after the season that they had last year. Dome one finish in the Eastern Conference. Quite disappointing. Obviously, in the second round against the Indiana Pacers, you had some injuries, you had players not playing up to expectations, and you had some ice cold shooting. just a a lot of these different things that contributed to the Cavaliers being ousted in the second round. Regardless, the Cavaliers have a giant spotlight on them. And man, some of these matchups, as we’re about to highlight here, the Cavs opponents for the 2025 26 season, they will play the Atlanta Hawks four total times. They got Boston three, Brooklyn three, Charlotte three times. We’ll talk about why that’s important, at least one of those games here in just a minute. You got Chicago four times, Dallas twice, Denver twice, Detroit four times. You know, JB Bicker staff and company, the Golden State Warriors, Steph Curry and them boys, Draymond Green, Jimmy Butler, a lot of big names in that matchup to face off with the Cleveland Cavaliers core foreign company, the Houston Rockets and Kevin Durant, which we’ll talk about a little bit. Indiana Pacers, that doesn’t really need any type of description. you know that there’s going to be some interesting uh contest there, some bad blood potentially between the two teams after the second round series that they had. The Los Angeles Clippers twice, the Lakers twice. That is important. We’ll talk about that in a minute. the Memphis Grizzlies twice, Miami Heat four times, Milwaukee four times, you know, Giannis in company, and you know what’s going on with him and all these different rumors and the addition of Miles Turner and the departure of Damen Lillard. So many different things, so many different storylines over there. Oh, and Brook Lopez, let’s not forget about him. He departed as well. A lot of different things that occurred in Milwaukee. So, those will be interesting matchups to watch play out. the Minnesota Timberwolves, you take them on twice. Anthony Edwards and them boys over there. New Orleans, the Zion and uh and company over there. It’s just it’s it’s never ending in terms of Zion Williamson and the potential that he has, but just hasn’t been able to stay on the court for an entirety of a season and had a great postseason run, things of that nature. But I’ll be keeping my eye on that. couple of uh top five picks from the draft or respective J draft class from Zion and Darius Garland. You have the New York Knicks, a team that a lot of people believe will be the second seed in the Eastern Conference, right behind your Cleveland Cavaliers. You will take them on a number of times. You will play against the Oklahoma City Thunder, the best team in the West, possibly the entire NBA. the reigning and defending NBA champions. They have given themselves that they they earned that title last year against the Indiana Pacers. So, they until further notice best team in the entire league. Orlando Magic four times, you know, some of the additions that they made, Desmond Bane and whatnot. So, those would be good ones. Phoenix Suns, a lot of upheaval there. And you know, you got uh you got the departure of Bradley Bill, Kevin Durant, obviously out of town now, Devin Booker, you got uh some pieces over there that you have to kind of figure out. Uh Portland Trailblazers, you will take them on twice. The Sacramento Kings, you’ll take on twice. the San Antonio Spurs. A lot of people, including myself, have that circle because of the marquee matchup between Evan Bowley, defensive player of the year, and Victor Wimyama, the presumed defensive player of the year, prior to his injury. So, those two will be noteworthy. The Toronto Raptors, that doesn’t really need too much of an introduction in there. You have two top four picks from the 2021 NBA draft in Evan Mobley and Scotty Barnes. Two allstars in their own right. There will be forever linked. So I will always keep an eye on that matchup. The Utah Jazz Lowry Markin and company. No more Colin Ston in Utah. So I’m happy that I’m honestly happy about that for Colin because that just always felt as if he was going to be in purgatory. played played what three basically three seasons three full seasons in Cleveland. Uh didn’t get a fourth full season if I’m not mistaken. And uh you know he gets shipped to Utah in the trade that Donovan Mitchell was brought to town in and just you know it’s just been uh disappointment after disappointment over there from a playoff perspective as they’re in a continual rebuild. And last but certainly not least the Washington Wizards. a lot of young and upand cominging talent over there certainly will draw my attention. I don’t know about you guys, but I’ll be keeping my eye on them. But man, a lot of good matchups here. Really, really excited to see what is to come from these games. I mean, and when you dive a little bit deeper, there are a couple of details from this NBA schedule that has been released today that really put a smile on my face. Number one, backto backs. The Cavaliers will play 14 total backto backs this season. They will go on the road. They will have uh four home and home sets. They’ll have seven home road sets. One road road set and two road home sets. They had 16 of these last year, guys. Not sure if you’re aware. Keep that in mind. I know that the NBA, you know, we always complain about these backtobacks and games being placed in such a condensed part of a schedule where you’re packing like five games and what, seven or eight nights, that’s brutal. That’s tough. And to be able to cut down a little bit on the back to backs to less, uh, that’s that’s positive, I suppose. not necessarily something that uh that I’m mad about at all because again, additional stress from travel and having to put together and string together um consistent performances on an individual and team level. That’s tough when you have a lot of these. So, you have two fewer than last season. That makes me happy. That puts a smile on my face. And uh the way that it has been done, it makes sense. So, credit to the NBA schedule makers. Who knows, maybe this is automated, but kudos to them in regard to that. I’m definitely happy about this being the case, though. It should put best less stress on them when we know that there are a number of players on this roster that are going to be working their way back from injury or you’re going to have to try and manage. And that brings me to my next point here. NBA rivalry week that will see the Cleveland Cavaliers take on the Charlotte Hornets in Charlotte. That will be a nationally televised game on ESPN at 700 p.m. which will be the Battle of the Ball Brothers. Now, admittedly, when I saw this, I was a little bit taken back just because I’m like, man, what the hell do the Charlotte Hornets, what kind of rivalry do the Charlotte Hornets and the Cleveland Cavaliers have lately? Like, I know like four, five, six, seven years ago, these are some battles, these are some matchups where Charlotte was legitimately bringing it. You know, Scary Terry and Gordon Hayward for a little bit. There a couple names over there in Charlotte. They gave Cleveland some fits, but not as of late. It’s not necessarily been a contest between these two teams. So, Charlotte is trying to get it out of the mud. Yeah, they do have some talent over there. They do have some young pieces that are worth keeping an eye on. Perhaps none better than Brandon Miller and LaMelo Ball. But this really just boils down to the NBA trying to market the Ball brothers facing off between one another. And LaMelo and Lonzo, regardless of how you feel about either of the two, they still are a big name. the ball name in the NBA is still a big deal. It is still marketable and that is what they’re attempting to do here. At least that is my guess because I just could not for the life of me figure out why during NBA rivalry week you’re attempting to market this one. You’re you’re you’re giving Cleveland this one as their quote unquote rival. Nevertheless, I will be right in front of my TV glued to it watching Lonzo hopefully, you know, I’m speaking it into existence. hopefully taking on his brother. Now, this game right here, this could be an important one for bragging rights in that family, but I mean, Charlotte is Charlotte. Cleveland and Charlotte are in two different tiers, obviously. Uh, so there’s not much else from a marketing standpoint that you can do than to try and uh build this one up between the Battle of the Ball brothers. That right there brings me to my marquee matchups for this season. that my friends and given you know there are more there are some big matchups on this schedule but these are the matchups that I find most intriguing these are max marquee matchups at Knicks that’s opening night if I am not mistaken that is the Cleveland Cavaliers taking on the New York Knicks again a team that many people believe is going to be the second best hell some people out there especially if you’re a New York fan believe that These two teams uh will will be battling it out in the Eastern Conference, but a lot of people out there, especially in New York, believe that this New York team is superior to the Cavaliers. I’ve seen it. I’ve heard people say it. I’m not going to point no elbows, no fingers, or anything like that. But I can definitely tell you there are a lot of people out there that would take New York in a series over Cleveland, which for the life of me can’t understand why. I do believe Cleveland is the better team, deeper team, and uh has continuity on their side, but to me, this is a big one. Confidence right out of the gate. Now, it’s important to know no Darius Garland likely, presumably. This is just me being speaking in hypotheticals. I do not know anything, so do not quote me. I’m not connected like that. But I can tell you that I do not believe Darius Garland will be ready for that matchup. It just does not seem likely in at least in my estimation, my opinion. We’ll have to see. But even without the services of one Darius Canor Garland, I still believe the Cavaliers have more than enough firepower to get the job done. It should still be a tightly contested one. And I’m not going to rule out Cleveland taking an L right out of the gate. But I believe in my heart of hearts that Cleveland has more than enough to dispatch this team. That’s just where I sit out with this. We’ll have to see what lineup, especially in regard to the starters that Kenny rolls with. Is he going to go with Lonzo? Is he going to go with Craig? Is he going to do something crazy? It’s not necessarily crazy because we’ve seen it, but is he going to roll Sam Merrill out there in a starting lineup beside Donovan Mitchell? Are Max Struce and DeAndre Hunter going to start? Is Jaylen Tyson going to Jolstar? Who know? Who knows? I’m just saying there’s a lot of possibilities here. And what better way to start things off? What better way? What better lipmus test do you get than to face off against what is likely to be your biggest challenger in an Eastern Conference that’s kind of in uh disarray right now. So, we’ll have to see with that one. Then, the Houston Rockets on November 19th. Why is that big, you ask? Well, one, Kevin Durant. Kevin Durant is a Houston Rocket. We’ve seen videos of Evan Mowgli facing off against Kevin Durant at uh, you know, the offseason. You know, it happens. Guys have one-on-one matchups. You get these clips, these highlights and whatnot. And, uh, it’s always fun. It’s always fun as a fan to watch these things play out. But Kevin Durant and his new digs against the Cleveland Cavaliers, you got some big pieces over there in Alfon Shangon. A lot of names, right? A lot of big names in that matchup. And uh I can’t wait to see how that plays out. The Indiana Pacers, that is the first matchup against them, one of four on the schedule, November 21st. That will be at home. And you’ll notice that most of these matchups that I have highlighted, all but one of them are going to take play, well, two, because you have two with the Mavericks, but let’s say that most of these are going to take place at home. But against the Indiana Pacers, assuming that in that matchup, Darius Garland is close to full strength or close to coming back. That should be a really tightly contested battle against a team that uh you know made it all the way to the NBA finals and was just it just came up short. The Tyrese Hallebertton of it all. We cannot forget that. Tyrese suffering his injury that’s going to put a damper on it. But nevertheless, oh and Miles Turner, we can’t forget about that. Nevertheless, this should be a tightly contested battle between two teams that uh probably going to have it out for one another. The San Antonio Spurs, December 5th. I already mentioned Victor Winyama versus Evan Mobley in a battle of two perennial defensive player of the year candidates. two emerging offensive talents, two all-star level players, and guys who are probably going to be flirting with uh, you know, top 10, top five status here in the next couple of years. So, that one should be one for the ages. And if you haven’t already seen, I I I posted their lone matchup against one another. They’ve been in Wimy’s been in the league two seasons now, but for what it’s worth, they’ve only matched up one prior time. I mean, Evan Mobley got the better of him, limiting him uh to to poultry numbers in terms of field goal percentage while also putting up good stat line versus him in that one game. So, I I cannot wait to see that one. You have the matchup, the first matchup against the OKC Thunder on January 19th, just a month later. That should be a big one. You got the uh the defending champions, two teams that I think a lot of people, including myself, would love to see in a NBA Finals matchup, but that requires both teams to make it there, right? That requires OKC to make it back, which they certainly have the talent to do after going all in basically this off season and retaining top tier talent and the Cavaliers being able to exercise some of those demons and getting into the uh the finals, right? not only making it past the second round in Eastern Conference Finals, well, not only making it past the second round, but making it past the Eastern Conference Finals against whoever they could potentially face there. That is not going to be any cakewalk, no walk in the park. You have the Los Angeles Lakers. Why is that one important? Well, my friends, that is the date that LeBron James makes his only regular season visit to Cleveland. That is a big one. that will be on ESPN at 7 and could be one of the last times, and this is probably why it’s most important, it could be potentially one of the last times that we actually get to see LeBron play in northeastern Ohio. This is on a Wednesday night. I I do feel like they probably could have uh they probably could have moved this to a weekend night a little bit later, but for what it’s worth, I don’t think people care. Especially if you’re in Cleveland, you’re going to tune in to this one because it could, like I said, be the last time that you get the opportunity to see this man play in northeastern Ohio in Cleveland at Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse to be exact. Why do I say that? Because you never know. LeBron is getting older. He’s going into what is this 22nd season. It’s just in pure insanity. Who knows when this man is going to decide to call it a career? Hell, he could win a title. And I’m not saying this is likely, but he could win a title this year somehow and maybe decide he’s going to hang him up. You got to play with his son. Maybe he maybe he wants to stay off retirement till his other son makes it. But for what it’s worth, this could potentially be the last time that you get the opportunity to watch this man play in Cleveland against Cleveland. So that’s a big one. And keep in mind, LeBron, he’s from a statistical standpoint, he’s he’s been great against Cleveland. In the 11 matchups that he has faced off against Cleveland since departing for the second time, he has put up averages of 28.7 points, 7 and a half rebounds, and seven assists, and has a record of seven and four, and he is 4 and2 when playing on the road. That is playing in Cleveland. That is going to be one of the best matchups that we see this year from this team or from these two teams. And then the Dallas Mavericks, you have a backtoback with them on March 13. Well, not really a backto-back. You have a March 13th game and then a March 15th game. So, um, one of those home and away types of things. Not necessarily a backto-back, but home and away against a an opponent that you’re going to see twice in a three-day span. So, why is that important? You guys already know. Presumably Kyrie Irving, Anthony Davis, and a number one overall pick from the 2025 NBA draft, Cooper Flag. Yo, that is a dangerous squad over there. Assuming that they are able to stay and remain healthy, that’s a darkhorse candidate over there in that Western Conference. If Cooper Flag is as talented as people believe that he can be, if he can put together the type of season out of the gate that a lot of people believe that he can do, and Kyrie Irving, if he can stay on the court, we already know what type of talent he is. Anthony Davis, uh, two-way force out there, the same thing can be said of him. As long as those guys can stay healthy, and they got some good supporting talent over there, they’re going to be a darkhorse candidate in that West. Uh, you know, you can call me crazy, but I definitely believe they have the talent to get it done, assuming they stay healthy. And it’s kind of the same thing with the Cavs, but on a lesser extent, right? You’re just hoping that these guys can remain healthy, cuz that is going to make or break how successful they can be come the playoffs. But these these are some good ones, man. The NBA schedule makers did a good job with this one. And usually I have some complaints, but coming off a 60 plus win season for this team, um, you you you really weren’t expecting too much at this point, at this point in time. All I am really looking for from Cleveland, because it’s not about the regular season anymore. All I’m really looking for from this team is to stay healthy. You just got to stay healthy. I don’t really think that anybody cares about the success that this team is going to have come the uh by the the regular season in the regular season rather. The things that you’re going to be looking for are lineups, right? You’re going to be experimenting with your lineups and your rotations. If you’re a Kenny Atinson, you’re going to see what specific players can look like in specific situations, whether that be in clutch time or we saw Darius Garland, man, he was brilliant in clutch time last year, leading the entire NBA in plus minus in the clutch and he was one, if I’m not mistaken, of 11 players to score over 100 points in the clutch. Very, very efficient when doing so as well. All of that said, Kenny Atinson is going to have to finetune it all in the regular season, especially with Darius coming off of surgery, especially with managing specific players manage, finding out what you have on that bench that does not have Ty Jerome to rely on anymore. You’re going to look at a lot of different things to try and play around with before the postseason starts. or rather, you know, I think you should probably start figuring out what you have or you should be done figuring out what you have come the all-star break, right? You should really be trying to tune fine-tune things and get it into that next gear so that you’re peing at the right time because we’ve seen a lot of teams kind of stink it up or just kind of back their way into the playoffs and then go on these miraculous runs. We’ve seen it across all sports, all spectrums. I mean, the teams that come to mind for me are the New York Giants, right? You want two Super Bowls basically like that. But for Cleveland, it’s going to be about tinkering. It’s going to be about finding what lineup combinations work. It’s going to be about management. And the player that comes to mind when you think about that most is probably Lonzo Ball because he is an addition that uh he is an addition that frankly frankly I feel is is going to be a big time piece as long as he stays healthy. As long as you keep Lonzo Ball upright come the playoffs, I think he has the potential to be a game impacting piece, a game wrecker out there on both ends of the floor. Not necessarily because of efficiency, but because of what he brings to the table. Excellent in transition, especially as a facilitator. We know that he is an upper level defender out there, especially on the perimeter. Even with some of the sapped athleticism after the injuries and the subsequent surgeries and whatnot, we know that he is never a player that’s likely going to excel as a driver of the basketball drive and kick guy. But what he can do, what he can do out there is be impactful offball, as a three-point shooter. And I’m throwing all those percentages from last year in Chicago where he didn’t play a full season obviously out the window. It was his first time playing basketball in two years. I’m going to let I’m I’m going to let it go. I’m going to see what he has after a full off season of work with Cleveland. We’ll see what he brings to the table in terms of the percentages. And even if he doesn’t jump right out of the game, efficient, I’ll live with it. As long as he’s impacting the game in other ways, namely as a facilitator, a defender, and on the glass, this is an underrated area that Lonzo brings to the table. So in injury management, minutes management, whatever you want to call it, load management, that’s the name of the game truly for Alonzo Ball and a a number of other players on this roster. Whether you you want to put Darius in there, help Donovan, right? We’ve seen this team kind of uh have to ride Donovan at points and him just kind of being uh less than energized, not necessarily his normal self entering a playoffs. That was not the case last season. I have to clarify that, right? He was fine entering the playoffs to a degree, but I just think that with the injuries to Darius, with the injury to Evan and DeAndre Hunter, Sam Merrill at a point, you rode Donovan into the ground and Donovan has to get out of his own way sometimes with his hero ball mentality when things break down and try and look to get Evan Moy the ball a little bit more and spread the ball and rock around. But at the end of the day, if you can keep these guys healthy, and listen, Kenny Atinson and company and that staff, for what it’s worth, they did do a pretty good job of load managing throughout the regular season last year, right? Career low and minutes across the board for a number of players out there, but that all turned to once guys suffered these fluke injuries. And that’s I’m going to call it I’m going to call a lot of them fluke injuries um just because of how they happened, right? the toe sprain that was something that Darius was dealing with already and got reagravated come the postseason against Miami missed a number of games wasn’t himself obviously on the floor you could tell that had subsequent surgery once the post or once the offseason hit um DeAndre Hunter right the dislocated or sprained thumb whatever you want to call it whatever whatever name designation that you want to give that injury that was a fluke injury right that’s not necessarily something I think you can count on him suffering again. It was one of those things spraining his ankle. These are things that I think you can’t plan for. There’s no amount of preparation that you can have for you can try and work out, you know, stretch and, you know, little minute details. Um, I think I had CJ Miles on was pointing to this uh on the last episode, the last stream that I had. There are things you can try, but you can you’re never going to be able to truly prevent injury from occurring, especially some of the types of injuries that uh that that Cleveland had last postseason. Some of them some of them just occur. It’s just bad injury luck. And so you’re hoping that the law of averages kind of evens out here and that guys can remain healthy come the playoffs because I can give a damn like you suffer some type of bruise or a nick or some type of uh some type of small injury, bumps and bruises out there during the regular season. As long as you’re able to come back by the playoffs, as long as you’re able to get back into a rhythm, that’s fine with me if you miss time during the regular season. Because at this point, as long as this team puts together a top four finish, that’s really that’s really the bar for me in the regular season. Yes, I would love to win a ton of games. Yes, I would love to see this team repeat uh as number one seed in the East. Yes, I would like to 60 plus games, but honestly, as long as they get a top three, top four finish in the East, you know, I’m fine. I I’m honestly okay with that because I think you need to use this season to see what works and what doesn’t. What player has uh has the game and what what guys don’t, right? We’re talking about players like Jaylen Tyson coming in and potentially playing a bigger role than he did in his rookie year. We’re talking about a now or never type of season for a Craig Porter Jr. who is likely going to be tapped to fill in for a lot of those point guard duties in the absence of a Darius Garland of a Tyrone. We’re talking about whether or not Lonzo Ball can stay on the court for the duration of a season. We’re talking about the same types of things for Larry N Jr. coming back to Cleveland in his first goound with the squad. We’re talking about whether or not a player like Deed Wade could finally show us some type of consistent confidence out there, a three-point stroke that doesn’t that that just doesn’t fail him. We’re talking about whether or not Naquin Tomlin deserves an opportunity to be a rotation player at a certain point this season. There are so many different things that this this this cash team has to figure out. And the good news is that they have enough talent to be able to work through things, right? If it cost them a couple of games during the regular season, I’m okay with that. As long as they have they earned themselves a top three, top four seed in the East, I can live with that. Like, if you win 55, 56, 57 games, I’m okay. I don’t think any team is going to win with the way that the the East is shaking out. Honestly, I do not believe any team is going to win 60 games. Um, and I know maybe that maybe that sounds crazy because Boston is going to be in some sort of gap year. I know that uh Indiana, they’re going to be going through it with what happened to Hallebertton. And we know that Milwaukee is going to have to try and work through some things over there. We know that Miami is not the same and that Atlanta with the introduction of some of these pieces they have over there, namely KP getting Jaylen Johnson back. There’s a lot of things, Orlando, the list goes on and on. But the East outside of New York and Cleveland and hell, I mean, if you want to throw Philly in there, because Philly has talent, assuming these guys are healthy, and that’s the big question, right? Because the the news coming out of Philly is that Embiid and that knee is not great. So, you really don’t know. You really don’t know past the Knicks and Cleveland. So, do I believe that a team is going to win 60 plus games in these? No, I don’t. But, uh, as long as Cleveland specifically is able to walk away with a top four finish, everything else is icing on the cake. I just want to see guys excel, improve. I want to see who has, who doesn’t, so that we can figure out whether or not we need to move on from specific players. And the one player that comes to mind the most in that uh, regard is Dean White, right? is entering the 2026 uh 2025 26 season on an expiring contract. That means that he will either be moved at the deadline, he will be let to walk at the end of the season or he’ll uh he’ll resign. Those are the three outcomes right there. I just do not think that uh if I was a betting man, I’d say this is Dean Wade’s final season in Cleveland, but I’m not going to rule anything out. The miraculous could happen. Should he play a big role in bringing Cleveland a championship? Hell, maybe they decide they’re going to try and keep him because he is, believe it or not, still pretty valuable in terms of the defensive versatility that he offers you, the hypothetical three-point production that he can offer you out of that front court and the positional versatility. So, Dean, will he be back? Will he be will he be traded? I don’t know. These are the types of things that I am hoping to find out during the course during the stretch run of the 202526 season. And I’m glad that we finally have these teams here that and we know who we’re going to play, where we’re going to play, how many times we’re going to play. I’m glad that we know all of these things now. Again, once more, these are the opponents. You got uh you got quite a bit of uh of action going on here. And I think I forgot one team, the Philadelphia 76ers. I think that was the one team that I forgot to put on here, but uh yeah, they will they will take on Indie uh well, they’ll take on Philly four times if I’m not mistaken in addition to some of these other games here. But I’m happy, man. I’m happy to see that this team is finally getting the exposure that they’re that they should have been getting all along. And I’ll tell you what, I’ll tell you what. They have to be able to live up to the expectations. They have to be able to live up to the expectations of being the best team in the East. So many different question marks surrounding the rest of the East. They got to be able to just take the reigns here. And I cannot wait to see what happens. I’m super excited about the addition of Lonzo Ball. I’m super excited about the addition of Larry N Jr. You guys know how happy I am about those two, but it doesn’t mean anything right now. It does not mean anything on paper. It does not mean anything in these podcast. It does not mean anything in preseason and regular season when it’s going to count the most. And you guys know I’m a huge like proponent of the journey. I I appreciate the journey. I appreciate everything that it takes to get there. But at the end of the day, after watching this team tape step after step after step, only to be stymied in the second round and back-to-back seasons, it’s now or never, right? It is a now or never type of season for this team. And if they don’t at the very least make it to the finals, I think that I’m going to view it as a uh a failure. And my opinion, at the end of the day, it’s not it doesn’t matter. But I would have to think that the Cleveland Cavaliers as an organization, Kobe Almaning Company, after some of the contracts that they’ve handed out, after the some of the moves that they’ve made, and I get it, like poor injury luck can happen, and that’s what has happened over the last couple of seasons. Still though, I think if they don’t make it to at least the finals, I think that there’s going to be big time moves. And this all starts against the New York Knicks, right? game one, you get a big matchup, you’re not gonna have Darius Garland presumably. You have to be able to make up for it. You got to be able to make up for it. So, I cannot wait to see what they end up doing. And uh man, should be one hell of a season. Should be one hell of a season for this team. And uh I’ll leave it there. As always, tell you guys, if you like to reach out, you know I can. It’s Capital on Twitter, Tik Tok, Instagram, YouTube, and more. If you’d like to be added to the ital Discord chat, you know what to do. Leave a rating, leave a review. Send a screenshot of sub review to it’s53gmail.com and I will send you said invite. If you want to support the pod in a small but helpful way, consider becoming a member over on Patreon. You can do so on YouTube if you want for as little as $1 a month. 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