When he arrived in Cleveland, Shaquille O’Neal made it clear there would be no more double-teaming Orlando’s Dwight Howard.

He’d handle things himself, as he did Thursday night. Oh, and he wants his cape back.

“I don’t really consider it manning up until you play me straight up,” O’Neal said. “I’ve never doubled anybody. So you tell me who the real Superman is.”
LeBron James had 32 points and 13 assists as the Cavaliers — with a big fourth-quarter defensive effort from O’Neal — matched their franchise record by winning their 13th straight game with a 115-106 victory over the Magic.
It was a rematch of last season’s Eastern Conference finals, and both teams are again on top of the East this year, but O’Neal, who had 10 points and six rebounds on Thursday, has made a huge difference for Cleveland.

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Shaquille O’Neal had one regret about moving into elite NBA scoring air. It should have happened long ago.


O’Neal became the fifth player to score 28,000 career points, and the Big Diesel made his enormous presence known at both ends of the floor as the Cleveland Cavaliers began a long stretch of home games with a 108-100 win over the Toronto Raptors on Tuesday night.

O’Neal reached the major milestone with a layup in the first minute. He was proud of the achievement, but felt it was overdue.

“I’ve missed like 5,000 free throws,” O’Neal said. “If I had at least hit half of those, then I would be at 30,000 right now.”

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Cleveland Cavaliers forward LeBron James was named today as the NBA’s Eastern Conference Player of the Week for games played Monday, December 21st through Sunday, December 27th.

In four games during the week, James averaged an Eastern Conference-best 29.5 points on .511 shooting, 7.8 rebounds, 7.3 assists and 1.8 steals in 38.0 minutes per game. James wins the award for the second time this season and the 22nd time in his career. He led the team to four consecutive wins during the week (all over Western Conference opponents) and the Cavs have now won nine of their last 10 games, bringing their record to 24-8 on the season, 11-3 overall against the Western Conference and 14-3 (.824) against teams that had at least a .500-record the day of the game.

James finished with 29 points, six rebounds, four assists and two steals in a 109-91 victory over the Suns on December 21st, helping the Cavs become the first team to defeat Phoenix at home this season and handing Phoenix its first home loss since March 12, 2009, a span of 285 days. The Cavaliers are the only opponent to win in Phoenix in the Suns’ last 21 home games. In that span, the Suns are 19-0 against the rest of the NBA and 0-2 against the Cavs.


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Last year, when Mo Williams attached the “All-Star” prefix to his name for the first time, it seemed that he’d entered a more high-profile phase.

There were signs of it, too. A year after not even having a shoe contract, over the summer Williams appeared in his first Nike commercial and now sports his own line of shoes complete with his nickname, “Mo Gotti,” on the tongue.

But on the same team with LeBron James — whose off-court statements can generate as much interest as his on-court play — and Shaquille O’Neal, Williams has shed some of the spotlight. Add in the attention paid to Delonte West and the fast-rising J.J. Hickson, and the first month of the season has left Williams overlooked.


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The Cleveland Cavaliers might well be riding a six-game winning streak had they not resorted to one-on-one play and kept settling for long jump shots in their 108-91 loss to the Washington Wizards Wednesday night.

The subpar offensive effort affected the other side of the court, too, as Washington got to run with the basketball after some poor Cavaliers decision-making, and became confident and team-oriented on offense.

Plain Dealer Cavaliers beat writer Brian Windhorst’s game report from Washington is here.

Washington, which has an impressive roster if it can stay healthy, got strong performances from several players, even a solid defensive effort and floor game off the bench from DeShawn Stevenson. He usually seems overwhelmed against the Cavaliers, but that wasn’t the case on Wednesday.

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LeBron James wants to be clear: Championships are more important than cash. Not that the cash isn’t nice.


James on Monday clarified a remark he made last week that a maximum contract next summer isn’t that important to the Cleveland Cavaliers superstar.

“Let’s get this clear: I said the max contract doesn’t mean more than winning,” James said. “I didn’t say ‘I don’t need a max contract’ or ‘I’m not going to get a max contract.’ All I’m saying is that winning is more important to me than money at the end of the day.”

In New York for a game against the Knicks last week, James said “a max deal or anything like that doesn’t really matter to me at the end of the day. It’s all about winning for me.”

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