James is giving kids from Akron-ones with challenging backgrounds like his-the chance to go to college for free. With Kevin Durant, one of the best players in the National Basketball Association, coming back from injury and the meteoric streak of lightning that is Russell Westbrook continuing to earn his keep, OKC will be unsafe. The scholarship will cover tuition and the university’s general service fee.
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James has not practiced in almost a week and a half since receiving an anti-inflammatory injection in his back, and the superstar only played in two of Cleveland’s seven preseason games.
“I know the work that I put into it”, said James, his feet soaking in a bucket of ice and both knees wrapped in ice.
“I’ve said that he was very active in terms of conditioning”, Blatt said, via ESPN.com. “But he took it to another level”, Gibson said. The rivalry is based on the fact that LeBron James is on the Cavs.
The 30-year-old was asked if he ever anxious he’d have to miss the opener.
Kevin Love will have a significantly bigger role in the Cleveland Cavaliers’ offense in his second season.
“Kevin is going to be our main focus”, James said Wednesday.
During the regular season past year, Jones played an average of 11.7 minutes over 57 games, but saw those minutes increase by almost four per night in the Cavaliers’ 20 postseason contests. “The guys came and had energy and objective”, Blatt explained to reporters. “On the other hand, we will be cautious and careful and not overplay”.
Griffin added that the last two practices before the Cavaliers travel to Chicago on Monday will determine whether James will feature in the season opener against the Bulls. COVERS POWER RANKINGS: Heat (-7.5) + Cavs (-13.0) + home court (-3.0) = Cavs -8.5 WHAT CAPPERS SAY: “Cleveland is off back-to-back high-profile games on the road to open the season; they lost to the Bulls and they waxed the Grizzlies”.
And while the opening-night matchup pitting the two Eastern Conference rivals will certainly draw major interest and a large TV viewing audience, James isn’t letting himself or his teammates get caught up in the hype. It’s just one of 82.
“We had a small taste of what it means to play in meaningful games a year ago”, James said. An orthopedic surgeon told the Northeast Ohio Media Group last week that a third shot in the next six months could suggest problems for LeBron, even to the point of surgery. Who’s going to guard Love tonight? “From a comfort standpoint, I just feel a lot, a lot better”.
Still, Atlanta got swept by the Cavaliers in the conference finals, and many doubt that the Hawks can duplicate last season’s magic.
Now the Cavs have their core trio of stars back in place with a big asterisk hanging over them.
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“The team we finished The Finals with wasn’t our complete team”, Jones said. So I was talking back and I don’t think Michael appreciated that … and we got in the lane and he gave me a forearm shiver to the chest and I pushed him back.
