Welcome to another episode of In The Zone. I am your host, Chris Broussard. We've got another outstanding show for you. We have our interview with Gary Washburn, the longtime NBA columnist for the Boston Globe, going to give us some great insight on the Celtics and around the league.

Of course, we got my man Jason McIntyre here for another segment of Knockdown Jay,

but as always, we gotta get it started with a top five.

And I was watching the Cavaliers get drilled by the woeful Orlando Matches.

And that got a brother to thinking, what are the top five problems with the Cleveland Cavaliers?

At number five, things have gotten stale.

Look, there's a reason only four teams in NBA history have made it to four straight finals.

That's Russell's Celtics, Magic's Lakers, Bird Celtics, and LeBron's Miami Heat.

It is taxing both physically and mentally.

I mean, players get sick of each other.

The coach's voice gets tired and old. The regular season

becomes meaningless. It is a grind and wears you down. Now you might say, well, Golden State,

they're going for their fourth straight trip to the finals too. True, but a few differences.

Number one, they have got a relatively new superstar

in Kevin Durant, who's only going for his second straight trip

to the finals.

Durant is hungry still.

And also, Golden State knows it when they get there,

they will be rewarded with another ring.

They're not going to be embarrassed. They will do the embarrassing.

At number four, LeBron James. That's right. Now look, we have to throw this out. The Cavaliers

would not be one-time champions. They would not be back to back to back Eastern Conference

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