I’ve always wondered what The Ringer has against Cleveland, but — whatever it is — the phenomena is very real. Everyone not named LeBron James — from the his teammates to the coaching staff to the front office to the city itself — either gets regularly shit on or completely ignored.
Particularly Kyrie Irving, the guy who averaged 30+ points on 50+/40+/90+ in the three elimination game wins versus the Warriors and who is currently averaging a career high 25 points/6 assists per night on the second best team in the league, has articles written about him suggesting that he isn’t even particularly good at basketball (ie that farce of a “How to Rank Kyrie Irving” article).
Kevin Love isn’t mentioned much and, when he is, it 99.99% negative or, at best, some neutral trade scenario piece.
I guess there was quite a bit of coverage of JR Smith not wearing a shirt … that is probably the most positive non-LeBron Cleveland “story” since The Ringer was introduced.
We had to endure “Warrior Week” on a Warrior-centric website when the Cavs are technically the defending champions (long forgotten at this stage and basically forgotten since June 21st, 2016 … the day after the day after the title win).
And, here we are… even in an article about “F#ck you performances,” Cavaliers fans are given the title of, “If James Dolan were a city.”
- That doesn’t even make any god damn sense.
- Fuck you, Shea Serrano.
