1.) For months now, the news coming from the NBA’s labor negotiations was all positive. Even some last minute Carmelo Anthony-sounded alarms did nothing to squash the presumption that things would work themselves out just fine… a crazy thought for those of us who stuck with the NBA through its last two labor stoppages in 1998 and 2011. But work out just fine things did and on Wednesday the owners and the players tentatively agreed on a new seven-year Collective Bargaining Agreement.
Continuing the NBA’s current period of universal wealth and well-being is particularly important for the Cavaliers, who are smack dab in the middle of their prime years of contending for a championship.