BDL’s 2016-17 Season Previews: Cleveland Cavaliers (Ball Don’t Lie)

The Cleveland Cavaliers might not have been the kind of team likely to suffer from a championship hangover, anyway. "We're still pretty much uptight," James recently said, according to Tom Withers of The Associated Press. As soon as Kevin Durant announced he would join the Golden State Warriors — the team that had just posted a record-setting 73 wins, and the foe the Cavs had just knocked off to win it all — Cleveland had a new mountain to climb, a new dragon to slay, a new quest to complete.