When the Cleveland Cavaliers came together with LeBron James, Kevin Love and Kyrie Irving this off-season, the Big 3 moniker came with them. Some of it was lazy media, some of it was just using what was used before and some of it was exciting for Cleveland fans to have their own Big 3.
LeBron thought otherwise back in October, before the season began:
“We’re not a Big Three, we’re a team,” James said afterwards. “We’re a Big Fifteen.”
And so it went, the Cavaliers never recognized the Big 3 together, besides some pictures and the three of them rarely talked about the title or their roles together.