Donovan Mitchell came out firing. Evan Mobley looked every bit the player the Cavaliers are relying on. Still, Cleveland walked out of Madison Square Garden with a loss — 119-111 to the Knicks on opening night.
The Cleveland Cavaliers tipped off their season tonight in New York, taking on the Knicks in a matchup of two of the top teams in the Eastern Conference.
Hakeem The Dream, Clyde The Glide, Magic: The NBA has produced some incredible nicknames over the decades. Some, like Magic and Penny, have even come to largely replace the player's actual name.
As expected, the Cleveland Cavaliers started the season on Wednesday without Darius Garland, who is still recovering from his left toe surgery. The Cavaliers will have to hold down the fort without the shifty guard for a few more weeks, as the team is taking a cautious approach with him.
The Cleveland Cavaliers had an All-Star center, the reigning Defensive Player of the Year and a four-game winning streak over the New York Knicks, whose starting center was out with an injury. In the opener, it was the Knicks who dominated inside and got a 119-111 win.
The Cleveland Cavaliers are entering the 2025-26 season with a lot of high hopes ahead of their first game against the New York Knicks. The Cavs and Knicks are expected to be the top two teams in the Eastern Conference this season, which is something reflected in CBS Sports writer Colin Ward-Henninger's power rankings.
The Cavaliers are keeping Jaylon Tyson around for at least another year. Cleveland picked up Tyson’s third-year team option, the club announced Wednesday, locking in the 6-foot-6 wing for the 2026-27 season.
The Cleveland Cavaliers have had a long and arduous journey since LeBron James left for the second time back in 2018. There have been players who have come and gone, the city has seen many different eras of teambuilding, and a youth movement that catapulted the Cavaliers into a new orbit of contention.
The Cleveland Cavaliers open their season tonight in New York in what feels like the first championship-or-bust season of the core four era. But how will the rotation shake out with key contributors Darius Garland and Max Strus sidelined by injuries?
The Cleveland Cavaliers will be hobbling into their NBA season opener against the New York Knicks at Madison Square Garden tonight, but with injury concerns, there is cause for hope.
Lonzo Ball has been away from basketball for a long time. But his passion for the game and the fierce competitiveness that burns from within his soul hasn’t disappeared.
When you’re tossed into the deep end of the pool, you’ve got to learn how to swim. That’s been the common denominator of the Cleveland Cavaliers’ words leading up to their season opener against the New York Knicks on Wednesday night.
LeBron James strongly believes that his former team, the Cleveland Cavaliers, is under the most pressure to win the Larry O’Brien trophy this season because of their star-studded roster.
The New York Knicks get set to open up their 2025-2026 NBA season. The New York Knicks will host the Cleveland Cavaliers as this could be a preview of a future playoff matchup.
For Koby Altman, the word “success” doesn’t mean what it used to. The Cavaliers’ president of basketball operations told Chris Fedor of Cleveland.com that while he’s proud of last season’s 64-win ride, the bar has officially been raised.
It may not sound like much, but the Cleveland Cavaliers will open their 2025-2026 campaign without three key players from the prior season, a season where
Cleveland Cavaliers guard Darius Garland is entering his seventh season with the organization after being selected fifth overall in the 2019 NBA Draft.
The Western Conference offers no mercy, no easy paths, and no expansive open windows of massive opportunity. Seeds one through 10 are usually all playoff contenders alike, and usually, seeds three and after are only games apart from each other.