Who are the Cavs?
Posted on March 2, 2008 - Filed Under Sports |
The Cavs are also known to most as the Cleveland Cavaliers. They are a professional team of basketball players in team in Ohio. They started playing with the NBA or National Basketball Association in 1970 as an expanded team. Since then they won their very first National Basketball Association, Eastern Conference Championship (2007). Local Clevelanders can not get enough of their beloved team hunt high and low each year for Cavs playoff tickets and sold out tickets.
The Cleveland Cavaliers played their first game in 1970 under the guidance and ownership of their manager, Nick Mileti. With the careful tactics laid out by Bill Fitch, the head coach, they sadly got a heart wrenching 15-67 record, a league disaster. As time continued the team endeavored to pick up the pieces by drafting Austin Carr, a basketball record setter from the famed Notre Dame. Unfortunately, Carr’s leg was badly injured shortly after starting his professional National Basketball Association career. In the end his career was over as his recovery was insufficient to keep him playing professionally and did not meet the standards required for fitness by National Basketball Association.
The Cleveland Cavaliers have played in three arenas. They started out in the Cleveland Arena from 1970 to 1974. Then they moved to the Coliseum at Richfield from 1974 to 1994. Finally they made their current move to the Quicken Loans Arena, once called the Gund Arena, from 1994 to date. Even today fans still rush to get a seat their and buy NBA tickets by the thousands. They gained themselves notoriety because the word DIFF was added to their scoreboard (difference in scores between two opposing teams).
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