More Than a Fan Podcast #59: Cleveland Cavaliers and the NBA Most Watchable Team
Segment 1 Ryan and I break down Kyrie Irving’s knee injury and the Cavs season so far. Segment 2 We vehemently disagree with the ESPN Most Watchable NBA Team and name our own group. The post More Than...
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Last night, Deandre Jordan threw down one of the most ferocious jams I have ever seen. It lit up the Twitter world and quickly became one of the most talked about plays of the entire NBA season. If you...
View ArticleMarch Madness!! (Just Kidding – It’s the NBA)
March Madness means almost none of you are interested in a coherent and interesting column on the National Basketball Association, even if you could find someone that can write one. In that spirit, I...
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Players Not Shaking Hands in the NBA Shouldn’t be a Big Deal
by Ryan Isley Are we really going to do this again? Are we actually going to talk about a team and their best player not shaking hands with the competition after a hard fought game in the NBA? Yes. Yes...
View ArticleWhere do the Cavs Go for 2013-2014?
Today marks the final home game for the Cavaliers in their 2012-2013 season. A season filled with optimism, the Cavs were killed by injuries and developing players throughout, leaving Cleveland...
View Article2016: Cleveland’s “Next Year”
About a year and 99 posts ago, I joined More Than A Fan as a young and naive writer looking to gain experience in sports journalism. A year ago, things were a lot different for me. I was at a...
View ArticleThe Return of Mike Brown
I have long been one of Dan Gilbert’s biggest fans. He loves his team like an owner should and would stop at nothing to bring the city of Cleveland a championship. He wears his emotions on his sleeve...
View ArticleDirect Message to @Cavsdan, Shut Up and Improve Your Team
Thursday, Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert, known as @Cavsdan from here on out, told Detroit Pistons owner Tom Groves he should move his team to downtown Detroit. His apparent rationale: even if your team...
View ArticleMy Two Cents on Jason Collins, Tim Tebow and Kevin Durant
by Ryan Isley Once again, there were a lot of stories in sports this week. From the Indians winning four straight (and beating two more Cy Young Award Winners, including Cliff Lee in the process), to...
View ArticleWhy I Don’t Want Dwight Howard to be a Cleveland Cavalier
As many of you know, I took some flack for my opinions on Tim Tebow on Monday. If you hadn’t heard, click that link and read all about it, or click this link to hear me and Josh Flagner talk all about...
View ArticleSome Thoughts on the NBA Playoffs
I really didn’t know what to write about this week. I have some big things happening on other sites, and last week I spent the week telling you what I wanted and didn’t want in Cleveland sports. Today,...
View ArticleNBA Playoffs in Biased Observer
The News As I’m sitting in the More Than a Fan Studio thinking about the NBA Playoffs that I’m about to biased-ly observe, news is breaking about Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus, and Michelle Knight being...
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Dwight Howard to the Clippers?
According to my More Than a Fan pal, Damien Bowman (@damienbowman), there are rumors swirling that Dwight Howard could be entertaining the idea of staying in LA, but moving to the Clippers rather than...
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My Two Cents on Gio Gonzalez, Josh Gordon and Kevin Durant
by Ryan Isley Before I jump into this week’s edition of “Two Cents”, I wanted to clarify something I wrote in my column earlier this week regarding fan behavior at Indians games. In suggestion No.4, I...
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The Most Insane Cavs Trade I like; Andre Drummond
Yesterday, my mind was wandering, as it often does, into dreams of the Wine and Gold. Now, often my visions of the future Cavaliers center around an unstoppable team featuring a superstar version of...
View ArticleMy Plan for the Cavaliers
On Tuesday night, I joined the More Than a Fan Podcast for the first time. It was absolutely fantastic. You should listen. What I want to talk about, however, started immediately following the podcast....
View ArticleMaking The Case for The San Antonio Spurs
Right now the Spurs are up 3-0 and the Heat are up 2-1. Both teams are going to the NBA Finals with a nice bit of momentum. (Or hopefully that last sentenced jinxed one of the teams into a historical...
View ArticleThoughts on the Pacers, the Indians, and How They Connect.
Tonight could be epic, so this piece I’m writing is going to be, well, epic… at least in terms of length. (I’m sorry, I like to write, ok!) Anyways, tonight there are two things on my agenda: Cleveland...
View ArticleThe Depressing Truth About LeBron James
Instead of last night being epic, it sucked. The Indians lost, the Pacers lost. The Heat won. I’m not all that mad that the Heat won except for it could mean the worst thing possible for Cavs fans. For...
View ArticleAll-NBA Teams: Properly Timed Edition
I’ve written columns in the past that detail my quibbles with the NBA. Hell, the first words I ever wrote for this site were a list of things that bug me about the league. If you were to go back and...
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