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8 Reasons Why the Cleveland Cavaliers Can Beat Any Team in a 7-Game Series

Published by
Brad Sullivan

3. A Healthy Love and Irving

Last season, the Cavaliers were able to reach the NBA Finals despite being without Love for the last 16 postseason contests and playing without Irving for the last five games of the finals. Even when Irving was in the lineup, his health was hanging by a thread until his knee finally gave out.

Both of them enter this coming postseason healthy, with Love focused on getting the full experience after watching his season abruptly end last year. During his three-plus playoff games last year, Love’s three-point shot was connecting at better than 42 percent, six points higher than his career 36 percent effort. Meanwhile, Irving is often a clutch presence down the stretch.

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Brad Sullivan

Brad Sullivan is a lead writer for Cavaliers Nation. He has spent much of life in the Cleveland, Ohio area, and has remained a Cavalier fan from their 1970 beginnings through the return of LeBron James. While that fandom was sorely tested during the Reign of Error known simply by one word, Stepien, that overall historical perspective will be part of his writing for Cavaliers Nation in the months ahead.

Published by
Brad Sullivan

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