Cleveland Cavaliers

Heat Comes Back From 27 Points Down, Rally to Beat Cavs for 24th Straight Win

Just when you think the Miami Heat can't possibly take your emotions to a higher place than they have already been this season, an ordinary Wednesday night in Cleveland happens -- and the streak pushes on.Down 27 with seven minutes to play in the third quarter, the Heat decided to turn its own perso ... More >>

LeBron James Heading Back to Cleveland in 2014, According to Latest Rumors

Is LeBron James planning on packing up those talents and sending them first class back home to Cleveland? Rumors are swirling that the Cleveland Cavaliers are eager to target their old star in 2014 when James has the option to be a free agent again, On ESPN this morning, Chris Broussard said he woul ... More >>

Sticking it to Dan

LeBron James Gets Standing Ovation on Letterman and Plenty of Questions About Cleveland

LeBron James came out to one of his first standing ovations outside Miami last night in a long time on The Late Show with David Letterman, and in New York City of all places. Guess that ring really did do wonders for his image. Of course, once everyone sat down, Letterman wasted no time time flingin ... More >>

ESPN Viral Video Tells LeBron Haters to STFU

Everyone north of the Suwannee River has been hating on LeBron James and the Miami Heat since the former Cleveland Cavaliers star decided to "take [his] talents to South Beach." But last night, we shut those haters down. And to commemorate this awesome moment of b-ball glory, ESPN has made an equa ... More >>

Charles Barkley Says Miami Heat Don't Have Real Fans, Is Easily Proven Wrong by Math

Looks like its time to bring back the "Fuck you, Chuck" chants. While predicting that the Miami Heat will win tonight, and laying praise on LeBron James, professional loudmouth Charles Barkley took a swipe at Miami fans this morning on a D.C. sports radio show by claiming that the Heat don't ha ... More >>

LeBron James Won't Rule Out a Return to Cleveland Cavs

​Well, this certainly doesn't disprove that weird rumor that popped up last month that LeBron James wasn't always on the same page with Heat Prez Pat Riley and was planning an eventual return to the Cleveland Cavaliers. James has now said he could see himself one day playing in Cleveland once agai ... More >>

Chris Bosh Is A Smooth Operator: Heat Take Down Cavs

BoshBalls!​The Miami Heat seemed to have been sleepwalking through the first three quarters of last night's game against the Cleveland Cavaliers. And all that dicking around might have cost them the game if not for Chris Bosh blowing up with his 17 fourth-quarter points.Miami was able to sustain s ... More >>

The King Takes on the Jester

It's The End of the World As We Know It!: Cavs Stun Heat

​It's Christmas morning for the Heat Haters Dick Biters Brigade! Because the lowly 15-58 Cleveland Cavaliers took down and exacted revenge on LeBron James and the Miami Heat last night in a 102-90 win.The Heat were outplayed and out hustled on both ends of the floor. And even though they eventuall ... More >>

Lebron Smash

Chris Rock on LeBron: "Most People from Cleveland Would Do the Exact Same Thing"

​Scott Raab, the Cleveland-born Esquire writer who got himself banned from American Airlines Arena, still seems to have LeBron on his mind all the time. He sat down for an interview with comedian Chris Rock for the magazine and the subject turned to a long discussion of LeBron James' infamous deci ... More >>

LeBron Increased Value of Heat by 17%, Dropped Cavs' by 26%

​The Miami Heat may be the most talked about NBA team this season, but they aren't the most valuable. However, the signing of LeBron James and Chris Bosh saw the team's value increase by 17 percent since last year, according to Forbes.com. That's the biggest increase in value over one year in the ... More >>

Don't Be So Cavalier

LeBron James Tells Cleveland That "Karma is a b****" on Twitter

​It's been a while since the card-carrying members of the Miami Heat Hate Machine have had any real reason to hate LeBron James with all their might. Mostly, they've tried to twist his words into discourses of pure evil, or take a certain gesture or facial expression out of context all to shoehorn ... More >>

Awkward: Cavaliers Change Hotel Plans to Avoid Bumping into Heat

​How awkward and tense have things gotten between the Miami Heat and Cleveland Cavaliers? Apparently it's so bad that the Cavaliers have changed their hotel plans in order to avoid bumping into the Heat. Both teams are on extended road trips on the West Coast. Both teams will be playing mid-week g ... More >>

Anti-LeBron Documentary Gets Funding Through Kickstarter

​Because LeBron hate apparently can't be contained to the internet, sports pages, radio, and ESPN, a new documentary hoping to chronicle "NBA superstar LeBron James' first season with the Miami Heat, through the eyes of the fans he left behind," has just meet its goal on Kickstarter. Yep, LeB ... More >>

LeBron James' Name Censored from Jay-Z Track on Cleveland Radio Station

​Cleveland's hate for LeBron James has reached new levels. The city's 96.5 Kiss FM has decided to censor the player's name from Jay-Z's hit "Empire State of Mind." One of the station's DJs decided that the word "LeBron" was just as offensive as any other word banned from radio airplay, and decided ... More >>

LeBron James Returns to Cleveland Tonight

This might be the first you've heard of it, but apparently LeBron James used to play for the Cleveland Cavaliers. And over the summer, after his seven-year contract with the Cavaliers expired, he decided to go play for the Miami Heat with his good friends Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh.The city of Cleve ... More >>

Cavaliers Gather Lawyers to Build Tampering Case Against the Heat

The Miami Heat travels to Cleveland tonight for LeBron James's first appearance at the Q as a member of the visiting squad. As if the story line didn't already make for one of the most dramatic and emotional regular-season matchups in NBA history, Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert has added fuel to the fi ... More >>

LeBron James Drops 38 on the Cavs in Heavily Anticipated Homecoming

Cleveland fans booed mercilessly. They held up signs that read "Quitness" and "Liar Baby Jerk." ESPN's Bill Simmons said LeBron James and the Heat just wouldn't be ready for the heavy doses of venom they would receive from the Cavaliers fans. It was going to be an ugly, raucous atmosphere that the H ... More >>

Lebron James Villain-O-Meter: How Much Does America Hate Him This Week?

​Americans residing north of Palm Beach County have targeted their wrath at LeBron James, a basketball player and creator of the world's worst television special. In this semi-regular installment, we ​figure out why American hates LeBron this week, so you don't have to.

Sports Illustrated Kids Cover Featuring the Heat is Pissing Off Cavaliers Fans

​See this cover of the latest Sports Illustrated Kids? It features an illustration LeBron James, Chris Bosh and Dwyane Wade dressed up as musketeers complete with puffy shirts and be-feathered hats. It's for the kids, so we won't rage too hard on it, but I think we can safely call it kind of stupi ... More >>

Pat Riley Thinks Twitter Could Help Angry Fans Attack LeBron

​Miami Heat President Pat Riley isn't ready to take a page out of Hurricanes Coach Randy Shannon's play book and ban his players from using Twitter, but something about the micro-blogging service just doesn't sit well with him. Apparently he thinks Twitter could play a part in opposing teams' fans ... More >>

Whiny Clevelanders Ask LeBron "What Should We Do?"

LeBron James' latest Nike ad continues to be parodied, and this latest version featuring the pissed off citizens of Cleveland is some serious shit. The bitterness and pure unadulterated hate emanating from these people is, honestly, scary. Mixed in with footage from the original commercial is clips ... More >>

Whiny Clevelanders Ask LeBron "What Should We Do?"

​LeBron James' latest Nike ad continues to be parodied, and this latest version featuring the pissed off citizens of Cleveland is some serious shit. The bitterness and pure unadulterated hate emanating from these people is, honestly, quite scary. Mixed in with footage from the original commercial ... More >>

Letters from the issue of November 4, 2010

Cleveland Comedian Mike Polk Has One Final Goodbye for LeBron James

Mike Polk, Cleveland's foremost hate bard.​As part of our project delivering Cleveland's unwanted LeBron James jerseys to Miami's homeless, we also announced an open call for "Dear LeBrons" -- missives from jilted Clevelanders bidding adieu to their high school sweetheart.

Cleveland Witches Have Placed a Hex on LeBron James, Apparently

​A group of witches gathered in a Cleveland radio station yesterday with a voodoo doll, some pig bones, a pentagram and a fake human skull to perform a ritual to curse the Heat's LeBron James. This might explain the Heat's opening night loss to the Celtics. It might explain why the Heat played so ... More >>

Meet the Most Disturbing Anti-LeBron Site Ever Created: MrsLebronWade.com

via MrsLebronWade.comYou really want this burned into your retinas as a larger image? Click through.​Jilted Cleveland fans have tried pretty much everything to deal with their emotions: burning jerseys in effigy, singing angry ballads in comedy clubs, even penning delusional rants in Com ... More >>

The Wino & Gold Jersey Drive Raises the Stakes With Free Heat-Cavs Tix

We're serious about getting as many LeBron jerseys-- and any other items-- from Cleveland in order to clothe the Miami homeless as we can. I mean, just look at that logo. And now we're offering awesome seats to the December 15 American Airlines Arena showdown between the Cleveland Cavaliers and the ... More >>

The Wino and Gold Jersey Drive, Clothing Miami's Homeless One Cleveland LeBron Jersey at a Time

Patches, the unofficial spokesperson for the Wino and Gold Jersey Drive.​They say if you want something done right, you just gotta do it yourself. An inspired drive to deliver Cleveland's unwanted Lebron James jerseys to our local homeless has been stalled by the Miami Coalition for the Homeless ... More >>

LeBron's Jerseys & The Ground Zero Mosque: Solutions

A group of Ohioans have offered to send LeBron James' former Cavaliers jerseys to the homeless of Miami, a purportedly generous gesture to help clothe poor folks. Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf has offered to build a mosque and Islamic cultural center in the proximity of Ground Zero, a purportedly generous ... More >>

LeBron James and crazy quotes

Dumb things people have said since the baller signed with the Heat.

Whose GQ Cover Was Better: LeBron or Dwyane Wade's?

​LeBron James is the cover boy for the all-important September issue of GQ, and in the interview he has some perplexing things to say about Cleveland. Namely that growing up in near-by Akron, Ohio he kind of hated Cleveland, but that he's open to the idea of one day returning to the Cavs. It doesn ... More >>

Five Miami Heat Reality Shows That Need to Be Made

​We here at Riptide like the sordid side of things. And while we're hoping that, come the end of the 2010-11 NBA season, Dwyane Wade, LeBron James, and Chris Bosh are lobbing a championship trophy to each other as they ride dolphins through Biscayne Bay, we're also hoping for a bit of off-the- ... More >>

Cleveland Fans Sending Old LeBron Gear to Homeless Shelters in Miami

​Cleveland continues to be the whiniest city in all of American sports, but at least their latest drama queen moment over losing LeBron James has good intentions. A fan-created website and a Northern Ohio restaurant chain will be collecting fans' old LeBron t-shirts ...and sending them to homeless ... More >>

Jesse Jackson Says LeBron James Was Treated Like "A Runaway Slave"

​Cleveland Caveliers owner Dan Gilbert came across as a whiny, sore loser when he posted his now infamous pissed-off, Comic Sans screed when LeBron James dared join the Miami Heat. He called James' actions "heartless and callous" and promised that the Cavs would win a championship before the Heat ... More >>

Cleveland Cavs Owner Dan Gilbert: Miami Inherits LeBron's "Curse"

​From the scathing, so-good-it-must-be-fake-but-it-really-isn't open letter to Cleveland from Cavs owner Dan Gilbert:

LeBron James' Handy Miami Primer

​Hey there, LeBron, why are you riding your bicycle around Opa-Locka? What's that, you're lost and disoriented? Well, fold this handy primer into your pocket and South Florida will seem just like home, you'll see! "Cleveland rocks": "I'm in Miami Bitch" Polish: Cuban Pasty whiteness: Orange ... More >>

From a Former Clevelander: LeBron James Was an A-hole Long Before the World Realized It

​Tonight, if our swamis are correct, LeBron James will announce he is joining the Miami Heat. On national TV. Which, from the perspective of Northeast Ohioans, is the equivalent of dumping your high school sweetheart via a banner flown from a plane. And if he ends up staying in Cleveland, that wil ... More >>

Forget "Miami-Wade": Name the County After These True South Floridians

Midwesterner.​The Dwyane-Wade-please-stay groveling continues with the county commission voting to rename our municipality Miami-Wade County. Ho-hum. It's like Miami officials have observed all of the crazy stunts Cleveland is pulling in trying to persuade LeBron James to stay a Cavalier, and ... More >>

Scrap Heat

Celebites: LeBron James at STK

Photo by Riki AltmanCleveland Cavalier's star LeBron James celebrated his last night of the NBA All-Star break with dinner at Miami Beach's latest hotspot, STK. On Tuesday night, the basketball legend was joined by 11 of his friends at the trendy steakhouse. James and his entourage noshed on Lil' Bi ... More >>

King Fishing

Clash of the Titans

LeBron and Dwyane duke it out in a battle of the MVP candidates.

Wizards Without Wands