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It absolutely was, still moving and leaning the whole time.

JR Smith's basketball IQ is about 8.

Now we finally see Hood? Hes been the only guy doing anything the last two games, and he doesn't get any minutes.

Jeff Green has 1 foul.. you have got to make Curry pay for that lay up..

Jeff Green has 1 foul.. you have got to make Curry pay for that lay up..

JR hasn't looked good all series, yet Lue is giving him Lebronesque minutes.

LeBron going to foul out in his last game as Cav...

Pretty sure Golden State will win by 30.

1:30 left and they look more like it's in the game and down by double digits instead of the 3rd quarter.. clear the bench

Well .... congratulation Warriors. You got all the calls, but you also beat the Cavaliers to every loose ball, and played with more effort.

I thought that maybe Lebron would stay ..... but watching this effort .... I no longer think so.

End of 3rd, 86 to 65, with Warriors dominating.

Pending a miracle? It's over.

I hope Lue is fired before his presser

Not looking good.


Good year none the less.

Watch the bench bring it to single digits because they'll play with actual intensity.

Hey Cavs.. if Curry drives and dumps it off and keeps running, you might want to follow him and stay connected.. he's walked into about 20 open threes in this series doing that.

Twice in 40 seconds...

I see no way that Lue stays.

I hate Golden State... I hope LeBron stays but whether he does or doesn't, I really hope somebody builds a team to beat them.

Korver's been ice cold this whole series. They are playing good D on him though.

This is getting rough to watch now. It's sad.

ugh! this is so sad

Korver hasn't made a shot in like 90 days.

Me too. There's almost no point in playing a season next year. Just give the warriors the trophy in november.

Cavaliers cost me $43 tonight. I hope they're happy.

Demarious Randell breathed a huge sigh of relief as the game ended, and he was completely off the hook for all of those jerseys.

did lebron take his jersey off as he walked off the court?

No, but he pretty much sprinted back to the locker room when the buzzer sounded.

Oh wow. Brian Windhorst just reported that Lebron had a really bad hand injury the last three games because he punched a chalkboard after Game 1. Geeze, could that game have gone any worse for us?

2010 the elbow, 2018 the hand

The way this season went, I’m still estatic over the fact that we even back to the finals. So many injuries, so much drama, so much player movement and coaching changes.

I know it sucks to have moral victories, but nobody expected us to win anyway.

Awful game last night, but thanks for a good ride Cavs. We'll never see it again.

This team will be dismantled big time. I don't even know which players will be back in October.

It’s time to be thankful, even grateful. You can coincide philanthropy and Lebron James,

We need to support his difficult upcoming decision, because it’s the right thing to do

His legitimate choices:

Philadelphia
Boston
Houston
LA Lakers
Golden State
San Antonio
Cleveland

This moral victory tasted awful and looked worse than it tasted IMO. Just awful to watch. We were true to our DNA. Not sure I see much better from this group. Some of them really proved they are not worth keeping. The game mouths were regularly biased and pro-GS throughout the game. We sure didn't give them much good to talk about and they surely didn't work at much ITO balance.

LBJ is a great man. Not flawless, needs some personal drama time, but has been class. His numbers are legendary. We know by the end of June I believe. The mix of non-achievers and inconsistents that we put together didn't work hard enough or well enough. But we also had some judgments that didn't pan gold. If James is going, we better brace ourselves for a lousy winter. Yanks for a hard-fought season.

I really, really hope he gives some indication that he's leaving before the draft though. That would allow us to move forward and start building.

A lot of the reason he was so hated was HOW he left last time. This year, I hope he is more straightforward and just says "Listen Cleveland, I love you, thank you, it is always my home ... but I'm moving to another franchise to close out my career. I wanted to announce it before the draft so you guys could deal accordingly. I'll make my decision within the next few weeks."

He doesn't need to tell us that. He should let the FO know his intentions.

It doesn't matter. If LeBron leaves, the Cavs will be a lottery team for at least a decade. That's why I can't understand how so many of you have complained so much about this team.

Those people are going to get their wish w/a lot of high draft picks. We'll see how that turns out.

Yeah, Lebron said he played the last 3 with a broken hand.

Don't punch objects harder than your hand...

Yeah and he hurt his elbow in that last series with Boston before he left the first time.

Lebron is amazing when he is there mentally, but there is not a doubt in my mind that he mentally checks out(quits) when things look hopeless

I'm still sick about that first game being taken away by the officials. It wasn't JR's fault or Hill's fault....it was the bogus charge reversal and the strip fouls/no fouls that cost us that game. Draymond's eye gouge should have resulted in an ejection/suspension. Don't tell me that if JR gouged Curry's eye like that he'd be playing the next game. We take game 1, I really believe this would have been a competitive series. I can't stand GS...there's no one on that team I like.

I think Game 1 was devastating to LeBron specifically and the team in general. I think losing a game that you deserved to win, while being such a big underdog, was more than we could overcome.

I think the officials and Lue [for not calling a TO when JR got the rebound] ripped our hearts out.

I've enjoyed watching the Cavs march to the Finals the past 4 years. It's been a good run w/plenty of ups and downs. I'm sad to see it come to an end.