The Cavaliers (+3.5) weren’t supposed to be this good this season. They weren’t even supposed to be the best or second-best team in the Central Division. Those labels belonged to the defending champion Bucks and the new-look chic-pick Bulls, led by DeMar DeRozan. Fun basketball stories where young, well-balanced teams come out of nowhere are rare.
Let’s face the facts: Most often in the NBA, you either have a superstar, face-of-the-league, bonafide top-five player, or you don’t matter in the big picture. That player can shift games on a dime, by himself, and everyone else is left weeping.
Unfortunately, no one told the Cavaliers, who got their arguable (early) signature win of the year over those same defending champ, Bucks.
