Get To Know Your Opening Night Cavaliers
2016-10-21
With Opening Night just around the corner, now seemed like as good a time as any to see how well the community of Cavs: The Blog knows their favorite team. Some questions are relatively easy, while others are more difficult, but all are fun, interesting facts about your Cleveland Cavaliers. So click below and take the quiz, and remember, no googling!
- This player ranked 23rd in the entire NBA in Real Plus-Minus last season.
- He is the nephew of former Cleveland Indian Ricky Gutierrez.
- He is a former co-MVP of the McDonald’s All-American Game with Dwight Howard.
- This player was just the seventh player in ACC history to lead his team in scoring, rebounds, and assists for a single season.
- He was the first overall pick in the inaugural NBA Developmental League Draft.
- He played 624 regular season games before his first playoff appearance.
- His cousin is former NBA player and current basketball analyst Steve Smith.
- His 13 seasons between NBA Finals appearances is tied for the league record.
- He is expecting his first child in November.
- He was a high school teammate of current Charlotte Hornet Michael Kidd-Gilchrist.
- He averaged five points per game in the 2004 Olympics.
- His first professional season was spent with Melbourne United of the National Basketball League.
- Rivals.com rated him as the number six point guard in the nation coming out of high school.
- He played his first season of college basketball at Rutgers before transferring to Duke.
- He was once removed from a Nike AAU team after being chosen to participate in a Reebok basketball camp.
Answers Below. NO PEEKING!
Answers
- Channing Frye
- James Jones
- J.R. Smith
- Iman Shumpert
- Chris Andersen
- Mike Dunleavy Jr.
- Kay Felder
- Richard Jefferson
- Tristan Thompson
- Kyrie Irving
- LeBron James
- Jordan McRae
- DeAndre Liggins
- Dahntay Jones
- Kevin Love
What about the trade rumors regarding answer #4 ? Shump. The Cavs sure need a back up point guard, but I still wouldn’ t trade Shumpert to get one yet.
That would be dumb. Shump is going to be good this year. More defined role. Plus a healthy offseason for the first time in forever.
How does he have a more defined role? He had a simple and defined role last year. Defense and open threes. He stunk. And got even worse throughout the playoffs. Hopefully he improves. I enjoyed his play the season before (when he wasn’t hurt).
I’m in love with these three paragraphs that Zach Lowe wrote today… “What LeBron did to Golden State last June should give pause to anyone anointing this four-headed super team. His performances while facing elimination in Games 5 and 6 — a combined 82 points, 29 rebounds, 16 assists, and six aura-shattering blocks — stand as the greatest back-to-back in Finals history. He imagined a way to beat this specific opponent, and then made it happen. He dragged Stephen Curry through an obstacle course of pick-and-rolls until he cracked just enough room for something — a thundering drive, those dripping… Read more »
Yep. LeBron showed who the real MVP of the league is.
Tristan…
It’s not a Kardashian spawn is it?
Not yet.
https://twitter.com/AmicoHoops/status/789489100856422400
Good for him!
Most predictable take ever.
This is an underrated and not discussed effect in performance. Having your first kid means you lose sleep. It doesn’t matter if you have a hundred people helping you. When you hear your baby cry, you get up and want to hold them. They want Dad. His ironman streak is in jeopardy.