With the new NBA season exactly one month away, we can only assume that everyone is getting very excited.  Me personally, I cant wait to see how the Cavs are going to be looking this season after resigning Tristan Thompson for a 3 year 53 million dollar contract.  We should be looking at the new season with some very high standards.  Especially when we will be having all of our players back from injuries.  Kyrie Irving will be good to go for the start of the season and we all know that he is hungry for the title that we would have won if he didn't get hurt.  Also Kevin Love will be back in action after he suffered a torn laberum at the hands of Kelly Olynyk.  I am also very happy to see Anderson Verajao back and ready to play.  I know for a fact that he is ready to finally get that championship ring for the city that he has been with through thick and thin.  Another player that is coming back and we are all very happy to be seeing in the Cleveland jersey again is Mo "Money" Williams.  We all remember when we were thinking about trading him and he begged us to let him stay.  Well we welcome you back to Cleveland with open arms Mo, and we know that you are going to be a crucial asset in this upcoming season.  Other players that need we need to be looking at this season on the Cavaliers roster are JR Smith and Iman Shumpert.  Both had a sub-par performance in the finals last season and they are both going to be key players this season.  JR and Kyrie will both be helping to extend the range this season causing the floor to be more spread out allowing players like LeBron and Mozgov to post up.  When we are talking about the Cleveland defense we all know that Shumpert will be there locking up some of the NBA's best.  But how can we talk about Cleveland defense without bringing up Matthew Dellevadova.  He is without a doubt the most hardworking, toughest, scrappiest, player in the NBA.  We all remember how he SHUT DOWN Steph Curry in the finals.  Delly single-handed took the MVP and neutralized the threat in the finals.  What more can you ask of a back up point guard....... except for him to score twenty points as well.  And leading the charge for this hungry and healthy team will be LeBron James.  This one man turned around Cleveland basketball and made it something that this city could be proud of.  With this healthy roster, we will be looking for a great season and hopefully Cleveland's first championship.

Basketball is, in mine and many others opinions, the greatest sport to ever be played.  It is also one of the toughest sports to be played at any level.  Some might say that hitting a baseball is much harder but I would disagree.  The thing that makes basketball such a challenging game to be played is the fact that it requires an individual to be quick, fast, powerful, tough, have finesse, great vision, have an unbelievable amount of hand-eye coordination, and to be able to work as a small part of a larger group.  It requires five individuals to have all of these qualities and for those five individuals to be able to play as one flawless unit that executes every play with precision, speed, accuracy.  It also requires the team to put aside their own personal agendas and to do things for the team that nobody would want to do.  It requires all players to exhibit an amount of hustle that is unparalleled by any other sport.  In order for a team to be good, they have to spend countless hours conditioning, working on their shot, and going over several plays that will be used at any point throughout the game until the team can execute them in their sleep.  If one player on the team isn't able to execute a single play, it brings the entire team to their knees and forces them to completely regroup.  This is one thing that makes basketball a game that is significantly harder to play than something like baseball or football.  If a person is not working like a clock, then the team will still be able to get by because the play might not be in their general direction.  But with basketball, if one player has a mental lapse for even one second on the defensive end, it can lead to disaster. And if that mental lapse happens on the offensive end, then it forces the team to regroup giving the defense the upper hand for that possession and possibly on the other end of the floor.  In short, basketball requires each individual player to be a much more diverse athlete than any other sport, while requiring to have the same kind of skills and athleticism that all other sports require.  It forces them to take all of the hardest parts of other sports and roll them into one player.  It is impossible to be a "specialist" in basketball because if you cant perform all of the required traits of a basketball player, then you won't see the floor.