Sure, The NBA is Back, but How Does it Affect the Cavs?

The National Basketball Association took the “11th hour” cliché to a whole new meaning this past weekend when a deadline deal to have basketball on Christmas Day leaked into the early hours of Saturday morning.  In principle, what we are left with is a season of NBA hoops, albeit a shortened one, that will include all of the bells and whistles of it’s regular brethren including an All-Star weekend, a postseason and a draft that is not in the determining hands of a Googlesque algorithm. While Yahoo!’s Adrian Wojnarowski, CBS’ Ken Berger and the New York Times’ Howard Beck have been legitimate All-Stars in terms of keeping the world abreast of all of the details from Day One, the goal of this exercise is to answer all of the questions which could still be outstanding with regard to how the new NBA landscape will affect the Wine and Gold – niche entities get the luxury of such a myopic focus. What follows are answers to the accumulation of all ...