Life After LeBron James: A New Era in Cleveland

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🗓️ 18 April 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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You could be forgiven for not recognizing the Cleveland Cavaliers team that you watched lose in game one to the New York Knicks 101-97. The Cavs haven’t made a postseason visit since Lebron James made his exit back in 2018, but enter Donovan Mitchell. Mitchell has coaches and fans of the Cavaliers hoping that his leadership combined with the young talent in place, can push Cleveland deep into the playoffs. So today, Nick Friedell joins the show to tell us how this team came together, what they need to do to succeed, and how much of the Donovan Mitchell gamble is on the line this postseason. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey there, I'm George Sedatta, a name you might recognize from crushing the
0:05.5	competition on around the horn. And a voice you might recognize from ESPN radio
0:10.3	in Los Angeles. Oh, and let the record show that I also got Spurs Coach Greg
0:16.2	Popovich to smile once during a sideline interview. So you're gonna be
0:22.3	hearing a lot of different voices hosting ESPN daily in the coming weeks, and
0:25.7	I'm one of them. I'll be with you the rest of the week helping this podcast do
0:30.8	what it's always done. Tell the best sports stories in audio day in and day out.
0:36.4	Thanks for listening.
0:48.8	Nick Ferdell, you are in Cleveland for Game 1 of the Cavaliers first round playoff
0:53.6	series against the New York Knicks. A 101 97 Knicks victory. But what was the
0:58.6	atmosphere like in that building in Cleveland?
1:03.2	It was really loud. And George, you and I have covered a lot of games there through the years.
1:09.2	In the beginning, in that moment, just before tip off, you're thinking, okay, starting to sound like
1:15.0	the old days little bit here in Cleveland.
1:23.7	In the NBA, Hacked House, standing room only here at Rocket,
1:27.8	Porgge Field House, and downtown Cleveland.
1:33.6	My entire day at experience in there was encapsulated with one of the Cleveland writers.
1:41.8	Looks at me maybe around the third into the fourth quarter, you know,
1:47.7	it's a little different in here without LeBron.
1:54.2	And while there is a ton of excitement in Cleveland and there are a ton of happy
1:59.8	calves fans seeing a young team starting to kind of come into its own, it is noticeable that this
2:06.5	it doesn't feel like life and death anymore out here. It feels like a cool basketball team that's
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