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Cleveland Cavaliers

  • Blogs

    April 27, 2012

    The Knicks Take Their Talents To South Beach This Saturday--And Other Playoff Storylines

    The NBA playoff bracket is set, and the Knicks will take their talents to South Beach this Saturday to play LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, and the Miami Heat. It's a matchup that will garner more buzz than a typical two-seed-vs-seven-seed series, due of a myriad of subplots. First, these two teams ha ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 14, 2012

    Dwight Howard Is All But Brooklyn Bound

    One of the leitmotifs of this condensed and frantic NBA season so far has been whether or not superstar center Dwight Howard will be traded. The 26-year-old Howard, supposedly unhappy with the direction of the Orlando Magic--the only franchise he's ever played for--requested a trade at the beginnin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 25, 2012

    Jeremy Lin and Knicks Sex Tips from Dr. Ruth Westheimer

    ​"When you get the credit for the wins," Casey Stengel famously said, "you gotta take the blame for the losses." True, but there was a lot more to the Knicks 102-88 loss to the Heat Thursday night than Jeremy Lin. The statistic which probably best defined the night was Lin's 8 turnovers. But ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 26, 2012

    Q&A: Cloud Nothings' Dylan Baldi On "Blog Rock," Cleveland, And Having "Lo-Fi" On His Tombstone

    ​Clevelander Dylan Baldi is making like the indie rock LeBron James. Except instead of pinpoint passing ability, Baldi's hands are able to noodle a fine lo-fi pop tune out of a four-track or ProTools like an all-star from an early age. His early cassette releases garnered him what's referred t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 22, 2011

    Sound Of The City's 2011 NBA Preview: Each Team, Paired With An Album From The Past Year

    Think of the orange car as a clue. ​The resurrected NBA season kicks off (thankfully, finally) on Sunday. To celebrate, we've paired each team with a notable album from the past year; the list, with tweet-sized justifications, is below. (NB, although the NBA-savvy of you might have already fig ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 23, 2011

    Live: Machine Gun Kelly Throws Himself A Homecoming Of Sorts At The Gramercy Theater

    Machine Gun Kelly Gramercy Theater Sunday, May 22 Better than: Going to the gym. Machine Gun Kelly onstage is like a Nintendo character, if someone kept pressing the B button. His feet touch the ground about as often as his knees hit his chest; he looks like he learned to walk on a Dance Dance Re ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 22, 2011

    Carmelo Anthony to the Knicks: Was the Price Too Steep?

    ​So now that Melomania has reached its peak, it might be time to reflect on whether or not the Knicks made a good deal. Last Friday ESPN's Stephen A. Smith probably expressed the sentiments of most Knicks fans when he wrote "When you have a chance to get one of the top five players in the ga ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 15, 2011

    Warren Beatty Sexes Up George McGovern

    ​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. April 27, 1972, Vol. XVII, No. 17 Will they snort coke in the White House? By Maureen Orth LOS ANGELES, California -- "I kissed Jack Nicholson," shrieked a teenybopper, her bare midriff quivering with excitement. "Warren Beatty hugged ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 5, 2011

    Homeless Man With Stellar Radio Voice is Taking His Talents to the Cleveland Cavaliers

    Yesterday the internet was ablaze with praise for Ted Williams, a Brooklyn-born homeless man in Ohio with a special talent. His voice, as it turns out, is that of a male angel, deep and booming, perfect for voice-over work, which Williams said alcohol and drugs had derailed him from landing. Now two ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 5, 2011

    Homeless Man With Golden Voice Now a National Celebrity With New Problems

    ​Along with the rest of the internet, and now apparently the real world, we've been singing the praises of Ted Williams, the Ohio homeless man who sounds like Don LaFontaine, but better. He lost his way and was panhandling with a sign promising a "God given gift of voice" until a local newspap ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 15, 2010

    The Ballad Of Kim Kardashian And The-Dream Continues, Courtside At A Knicks Game

    ​Here we have (courtesy Funkmaster Flex) SOTC deity The-Dream taking in last night's Knicks-Rockets game (guess who won) with Kim Kardashian, continuing their alleged unholy union, about which we have already begun writing a speculative musical. Here, then, are more excerpts from that work in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 10, 2010

    Roger Stone Backs Away from Paladino, but Can't Get Rid of the Stink of Scott Rothstein

    ​In an odd week in the gubernatorial campaign, the oddest moment was Roger Stone's NY1 appearance on Tuesday, when he appeared to be trying to put miles of distance between himself and Carl Paladino, whose September primary victory Stone engineered. This grew even odder when Palad ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 14, 2010

    Shaq Has Not Panicked Since Age 9, When He Lit a Teddy Bear on Fire

    ​Allow the absurdity of that statement to set in. He really said that! It comes from this weekend's Deborah Solomon Q&A with the aging basketball star in the New York Times Magazine. It's full of the classic quotes and good humor that made the The Real Shaq the original Kanye West. Plus, a s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 13, 2010

    LeBron James and A-Rod: When Analogies Attack

    ​There are some fascinating new issues surfacing in the aftershock of LeBron James's decision to join the Miami Heat, most notably Tyler Kepner in yesterday's New York Times. Kepner makes several valid parallels between A-Rod and James, such as "like Rodriguez, James grew up without a father ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 11, 2010

    Spike Lee Hates LeBron James

    ​"We got hoodwinked. Led astray. Hornswoggled," Spike Lee told the New York Times, quoting Malcolm X, whose 1992 biopic he directed. "We got bamboozled." Lee, like everyone else, is pissed at LeBron James, who signed with the Miami Heat, crushing the dreams of Cleveland, New York, New Jersey a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 10, 2010

    Cleaning Cleveland: A LeBron James Photo Essay

    Guess what it stands for​Rolling Stone writer and pro shit-talker Matt Taibbi called the ESPN LeBron James special The Decision "a landmark moment in the history of human self-involvement." That's one of the most polite ways anyone has referred to the LBJ week-long free agency spectacle. Every ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 9, 2010

    LeBron James Goes to the Heat; The NBA Goes to Hell

    ​At 9:26 pm EST Wednesday night, LeBron James told us what we already knew. Since Tuesday night, the Philadelphia Inquirer's Stephen A. Smith had been betting his reputation on LeBron's choice of the Miami Heat, and nearly three hours before the climactic moment, rumors of preparations for ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 9, 2010

    LeBron James Quickly Becomes League Villain

    ​As the early returns come in - we were most impressed by the recent ESPN poll which showed 57 percent of the public was feeling anti-LBJ -- it appears that in the breathtaking space of less than 12 hours LeBron James went from the most popular athlete in American sports to the most despised. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 6, 2010

    George Steinbrenner at 80: Mellowed, But We Miss the Boss

    Slowly, almost imperceptibly, George Steinbrenner's image has softened over the last few years. Two recent biographies, Peter Golenbock's George - The Poor Little Rich Boy Who Built The Yankee Empire (from Wiley, published last year and out now in paperback) and Bill Madden's Steinbrenner, The Last ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 3, 2010

    Ryan Skeen Hosts a Cooking Class; Joey Campanaro Heads to Philly

    ​ Ryan Skeen is launching a bi-weekly supper club and cooking class at 5 & Diamond. The first is a $55 Spring Lamb Fest next Monday, which will include a primer on how to butcher and prepare lamb in a variety of ways, from smoking to braising. [Eater] Joey Campanaro of Kenmare, Market Table a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 3, 2010

    Video: Mayor Bloomberg's Embarrassing "Come On, Lebron" Campaign Has Begun

    Click to enlarge and see the ridiculousness in a bigger size. ​New Yorkers should want for nothing, and when we do, we kvetch about it, and then go get it, because that's what New Yorkers do. We shouldn't look desperate, preening, pathetic, or in-need. It just doesn't seem to fit the spirit of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 14, 2010

    Why LeBron James (Probably) Won't Be Coming to New York

    ​Terry Pluto, sports columnist for the Cleveland Plain Dealer, has been covering LeBron James since his first high school game. His latest book, LeBron James: The Making of an MVP (cowritten with PD Cavs beat writer Brian Winters) is the definitive work to date on how James became the best pla ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    November 3, 2009

    LEBRON BRINGS IT HOME?

    Not if the 'Dynamic Duo' have anything to say about it

  • Blogs

    October 30, 2009

    Cheek, in Review: 7 Days of Runnin' Scared

    Twitpic by StWiltshire. The last full week of the election campaign was sorta fun -- as it should have been with Mayor Bloomberg spending $37,000 an hour on it. And it worked: the big papers endorsed him, as did another Democrat, and polls showed him way out of Bill Thompson's reach. We still su ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 27, 2009

    Jockbeat: Why This Year with the Knicks Will Be Worse Than the Isiah Era

    ​ In a way, for Knicks fans this is worse than the Isiah era. You know, in the way watching a train wreck is a lot more interesting than watching paint dry. At least in the bad old days, there was drama, larger-than life personalities and some good basketball players, albeit gone horribly w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 27, 2009

    Jockbeat: Barra Bemoans Shrinking (Print) Sports Sections; Ortega Tells Him To Stop Whining

    ​For many years, there's been a feeling that SportsBusiness Journal is a publication only for insiders. Well, the web has changed the definition of "insiders," expanding it to heretofore unthought of numbers, and I can't think of any sportswriter, editor or fan who doesn't need to see and absorb B ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    January 21, 2009

    IT'S KOBE! LEBRON! . . .

    . . . And, sigh, the Knicks

  • Blogs

    April 28, 2008

    Jay-Z Diss Track Enlivens Bullshit NBA Playoff Feud

    . . . And, sigh, the Knicks

  • Blogs

    June 15, 2007

    The NBA Fucking Sucks: A Playlist

    . . . And, sigh, the Knicks

  • Music

    September 13, 2005

    Pulling the White Strings

    Light-skinned acts ride hip-hop’s changing tide with dark-skinned Svengalis

  • News

    June 10, 2003

    Sports

    Light-skinned acts ride hip-hop’s changing tide with dark-skinned Svengalis

  • News

    May 27, 2003

    The Import of Winning

    Playing the Numbers Game

  • News

    February 11, 2003

    The LeBron Road Show

    A Pot of Gold at the End of His Rainbow Jumper

  • News

    January 21, 2003

    Sports

    A Pot of Gold at the End of His Rainbow Jumper

  • News

    October 22, 2002

    The Basketball Roller Coaster

    How a Coney Island Kid Prepares for the Ride of His Life

  • News

    December 4, 2001

    Sports

    How a Coney Island Kid Prepares for the Ride of His Life

  • News

    July 3, 2001

    Sports

    How a Coney Island Kid Prepares for the Ride of His Life

  • News

    January 30, 2001

    Sports

    How a Coney Island Kid Prepares for the Ride of His Life

  • News

    January 9, 2001

    Sports

    How a Coney Island Kid Prepares for the Ride of His Life

  • News

    November 14, 2000

    Defenseless

    The Knicks Front Line Looks Like a Doughnut: There’s a Big Hole in the Middle

  • News

    August 29, 2000

    Give Me Liberty or Give Me Vets

    Houston Takes the Title in a Year of Transition

  • News

    August 15, 2000

    Sports

    Houston Takes the Title in a Year of Transition

  • News

    March 21, 2000

    Sports

    Houston Takes the Title in a Year of Transition

  • News

    March 14, 2000

    Sports

    Houston Takes the Title in a Year of Transition

  • News

    February 15, 2000

    Token Efforts?

    NBA: In League With White Players?

  • News

    December 14, 1999

    Johnnies on the Spot

    Bootsy and Barkley Lead the Red Storm From the Backcourt

  • News

    April 27, 1999

    New Color For The Knicks?

    Bootsy and Barkley Lead the Red Storm From the Backcourt

  • News

    April 27, 1999

    Building the Perfect Beast

    Reconstructing the Knicks Around Three of Their Stars

  • News

    March 2, 1999

    Hurting The Game

    An increase in injuries has diminished the NBA

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