Cavs Continue Winning Ways as Calendar Year Comes to a Close
If you’re a fan who’s old enough, you can remember most – or maybe all – of the Cavaliers eras of ascendence: the Miracle of Richfield team, Lenny Wilkens’ supremely talented squads of the late-80s and early-90s, the LeBron years.
And like any great era, there was both a rise and a fall.
Bill Fitch’s Miracle group was built from the ground up as an expansion team and finished two games under .500 in 1974-75. Early the next season, they traded for Nate Thurmond – and everything changed from there.