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The Cleveland Cavaliers will be without coach Tyronn Lue and guard Kyle Korver for Tuesday's game in Miami, and it remains unclear when either will return. Lue announced on March 19 that he was taking a leave to deal with health-related matters. Korver has been excused by the team following the death of his brother, whose funeral was in the family's native Iowa on Monday. The Cavs visit Charlotte on Wednesday. Tuesday's game will be the sixth that Lue misses in full this season, including one from December. The Cavs enter Tuesday 5-0 in the games that Lue has missed, not including a 1-1 mark in a pair of contests where he missed the second halves because of illness. Continue to Article

March 27, 2018 11:02:am EST

The Cleveland Cavaliers' Kyle Korver joined his two remaining brothers in comforting their parents during a funeral for their youngest brother. Twenty-seven-year-old Kirk Korver died March 20 of a sudden illness. The Des Moines Register reports that Kyle Korver stood Monday at a church in Pella, Iowa, with his brothers Klayton and Kaleb and told their parents that life without Kirk will be different but "You will always have four sons." All four played basketball at the collegiate level or above: Kyle and Kaleb at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska, Klayton at Drake in Des Moines, Iowa, and Kirk at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. It's unclear whether Kyle Korver will rejoin the team Continue to Article

March 27, 2018 10:07:am EST

Isaiah Thomas has traveled across the country to have his hip assessed after pain in the long-standing trouble spot failed to subside and kept him out of the Lakers' last two games. Thomas, who traded from the Cleveland Cavaliers to the LA Lakers in February, was ruled out of their games on Saturday (March 24) and Monday due to the continuous hip issue. The 29-year-old point guard was traded to the Cavaliers in the summer as part of a deal that saw Kyrie Irving joining the Celtics, where Thomas had shot to fame. Continue to Article

March 27, 2018 5:58:am EST

Isaiah Thomas has traveled across the country to have his hip assessed after pain in the long-standing trouble spot failed to subside and kept him out of the Lakers' last two games. Thomas, who traded from the Cleveland Cavaliers to the LA Lakers in February, was ruled out of their games on Saturday (March 24) and Monday due to the continuous hip issue. He reportedly left the team in Detroit, where the Lakers lost to the Pistons on Monday 112-106, to head to New York and see a specialist. The 29-year-old point guard was traded to the Cavaliers in the summer as part of a deal that saw Kyrie Irving joining the Celtics, where Thomas had shot to fame. But it quickly grew clear that he was not the Continue to Article

March 27, 2018 5:58:am EST

There’s no way right now to defend James even by staying in front of him – or in Harris’ case, beneath him. James had 37 points, 10 rebounds and eight assists, and the Cleveland Cavaliers beat the Brooklyn Nets 121-114 on Sunday for their fifth straight victory. Associate head coach Larry Drew, running the team in Tyronn Lue’s place, was asked to make an MVP case for James. Continue to Article

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