The Cavs, oh the Cavs. As most everyone knows, the Cleveland Cavaliers now own the record for the most consecutive losses in NBA history. It makes me very sad every time I see another “Cavs Fall Again” headline in the Plain Dealer. It’s really quite unbelievable how much of a 180 the Cavs managed to pull off. They had the best regular season record in the NBA just last season and now, less than a year later, they are arguably the worst team in NBA history, if not sports history. Murphy’s Law began its chokehold on the Cavaliers as soon as LeBron James announced that he would take his talents to South Beach. Although all us Cleveland fans worried about the future of the Cavs, no one could have imagined that we would be this bad. Injuries to key players like Anderson Varejao and Mo Williams combined with the loss of big-men Zydrunas Ilgauskus and Shaquelle O’Neil factored in to the Cavs’s ineptness this season. So, a bunch of NBA backups playing in the aftermath of losing the best player in the NBA losing 26 games in a row should not come as too much of a surprise. The part I hate most about the losing streak is that it makes LeBron look like some sort of basketball god. To the casual fan it looks like the Cavs were the best team in the NBA with him and are the worst team in the NBA without him. Although LeBron’s departure has made the Cavs into below average team, all the injuries, Byron Scott’s new system and the departure of other players have made the Cavs the worst team in league. It really saddens me to think that without LeBron, Cleveland sports are in absolute ruin.
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