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Cleveland Clinic Courts...... 3 PLAYOFFS HISTORY ...... 146 Welcome To !...... 4 Year-By-Year Playoff Results ...... 147 FRONT OFFICE...... 7 All-Time Playoff Statistics...... 156 Directory ...... 8 2016 NBA Champions...... 158 ...... 13 Individual One Game Playoff Records...... 159 Koby Altman ...... 14 Team One Game Playoff Records ...... 161 Mike Gansey...... 15 All-Time Playoff Leaders...... 163 Bernie Bickerstaff ...... 16 All-Time Playoff Records...... 164 Brockman Aller ...... 17 Playoff Misc . Records/OT Games...... 165 Jon Nichols...... 17 ALL-TIME ROSTER...... 166-226 Brandon Weems...... 17 CAVALIERS HISTORY...... 227 Andrae Patterson ...... 18 Season-By-Season Results and Statistics. . . 228-321 Brendon Yu...... 18 All-Time Coaches And General Managers. . . . . 322 Chico Averbuck...... 19 Year-By-Year Finish & Coaching Records . . . . . 323 David Henderson...... 19 All-Time Cavaliers Won-Lost Record ...... 324 ...... 20 Record By Month/Record By Division...... 325 ...... 21 Team Ranking...... 327 ...... 21 All-Time Best Season Performances ...... 328 ...... 22 All-Time Team/Opponent Statistics...... 329 ...... 22 Cavaliers All-Time Leaders...... 333 ...... 23 Cavaliers Year-By-Year Leaders...... 335 Vitaly Potapenko...... 23 Best Individual Cavaliers Season...... 337 ...... 24 All-Time High Games ...... 339 Stephen Spiro...... 25 Opening Game Results/Lineups...... 343 George Sibel ...... 25 Triple-Doubles/Biggest Margin ...... 345 Derek Millender ...... 26 20-20 Club...... 346 Yusuke Nakayama ...... 26 Cavaliers Among NBA Stat Leaders...... 347 Michael Mancias...... 27 All-Time Overtime Games/Record ...... 348 Alex Moore ...... 27 NBA Honors Won By Cavaliers...... 351 Len Komoroski ...... 28 Attendance ...... 354 Nic Barlage...... 29 Draft Resume ...... 355 Staff...... 30-31 Uniform Numbers/Retired Jerseys ...... 360 Medical Staff...... 31 Uniform And Logo History/Naming The Cavailers. . 364 THE PLAYERS...... 32 All-Time Logos and Jerseys...... 366 Roster...... 33 Arena History...... 369 José Calderón...... 34 COMMUNITY RELATIONS ...... 371 Jae Crowder...... 37 MEDIA INFORMATION ...... 380 ...... 40 Media Information/Seating ...... 381 Jeff Green...... 45 Radio Network/Cavs .com...... 383 John Holland...... 46 Fred McLeod...... 386 LeBron James...... 48 Austin Carr ...... 387 Kyle Korver...... 58 Allie Clifton ...... 388 ...... 61 Jeff Phelps...... 388 Cedi Osman ...... 66 M . Campy Russell...... 389 Derrick Rose...... 68 John Michael...... 389 ...... 72 Jim Chones...... 390 J .R . Smith...... 75 Mike Snyder ...... 390 Isaiah Thomas...... 79 Brad Sellers...... 391 ...... 82 Rafael Hernández Brito...... 391 Dwyane Wade...... 86 Scott Zurilla...... 392 Ante Zizic...... 91 Joe Gabriele...... 392 SEASON IN REVIEW...... 93 Tad Carper...... 393 Key Dates/Team Notes...... 94 B .J . Evans...... 393 Season Transactions...... 106 Jeff Schaefer...... 394 Team Statistics ...... 108 Cherome Owens...... 394 NBA INFORMATION...... 123 Alyssa Dombrowski...... 394 2016-17 NBA Standings/League Leaders...... 124 Phyllis Salem...... 395 2016-17 NBA Award Winners...... 131 Traveling Media/Stat Crew...... 396 2017-18 Season NBA Directories...... 134 NBA Playoffs/Key Dates...... 397 Canton Charge/NBA G League...... 136 OPPONENTS...... 398 ALL-TIME RECORDS...... 139 Individual One Game Records...... 140 Team Records...... 143 Miscellaneous Records...... 145 Courts Welcome To Cleveland! Cleveland has a proud history that is market in the United States with 2 million 221 years in the making . General Moses residents in and nearly Cleveland of the Connecticut Land Company 400,000 in the City of Cleveland . With a came to the Western Reserve and founded diverse food scene, vibrant theatres and the City of Cleveland in 1796 . Today, nationally acclaimed museums, there’s a Cleveland has grown into the 18th largest lot to love in a city that’s in the midst of an metro area and 15th largest consumer incredible resurgence .

Downtown Cleveland Attractions On the shore of sits the Rock and Just a few blocks from The Q sits Roll Hall of Fame, the largest collection of rock PlayhouseSquare, the second largest theatre artifacts under one roof in the world . More than district in the country and home to the world’s 9 million visitors, each with their own favorites largest outdoor chandelier . The Cleveland and memories, have visited the I .M . Pei-designed Play House, America’s first regional theater, Rock Hall since it opened in 1995 . The Rock housed in , won the 2015 Hall also hosts concerts throughout the year . Tony Award for Best Regional Theater . [www .rockhall com]. [www .playhousesquare .org] Just a short walk from the front steps of The Q sits the vibrant East 4th Street, a prime destination for dinner, drinks and entertainment . Here, guests can dine at more than a dozen unique restaurants including eateries of celebrity chef and Jonathon Sawyer, winner of the 2015 James Beard Foundation Award for Best Chef Great Lakes . Not hungry? Enjoy a night of live music at House of Blues, laugh-out-loud comedy at Pickwick and Frolic or high-energy bowling at The Corner Alley . [www .east4thstreet com].

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Home to the 2016 NBA Champion , the 2016 AHL Champion , the AFL and host to the best entertainment in the region, Quicken Loans Arena welcomes over two million guests to 200-plus events each year, including world-class concerts, family shows, and the Mid-American Conference’s (MAC) men’s and women’s postseason basketball tournament . Most recently, The Q hosted the 2016 Republican National Convention and looks forward to hosting the upcoming 2018 NCAA Wrestling Championships . [www .theqarena .com] Right next door, fans can check out the in action at or walk a mile down the road to the shores of Lake Erie to catch the Browns on the gridiron at FirstEnergy . [www .indians .com] [www .browns com]. © JACK Casino Test your luck at JACK Casino, located just steps On the Corner of East 9th street and Euclid from The Q in . This lavish Avenue sits the unique Heinen’s Grocery Store, hot spot is open 24/7 and features over 100,000 built to serve the growing residency in downtown square feet of exciting, action packed gaming Cleveland . Set in the historic Cleveland Trust choices spread over three spacious floors . In Building, a magnificent grand rotunda has been addition to the huge Market District Buffet on the transformed into a two-story food hall featuring ground level, guests can satisfy their hunger at a wide array of dining options, making this one of the many local dining options the casino destination much more than a place to shop for has to offer . [www .jackentertainment .com] groceries . [www .heinens .com/downtown] Located in the heart of a vibrant downtown on The Greater Cleveland Aquarium, set in the shores of Lake Erie, the new Huntington the historic FirstEnergy Powerhouse building Convention of Cleveland provides located on the west bank of the Cuyahoga 750,000-square-feet of underground tech-friendly River, features crystal clear tanks filled space with meetings and conventions planned with nearly half a million gallons of water through 2019 . Right next door is the recently- representing both regional and exotic species completed Hilton Cleveland Downtown, a 28-story of fish - including the Shark SeaTube, an hotel featuring 600 guest rooms, a rooftop bar exciting underwater walk-through experience . and underground connections to the Convention [www .greaterclevelandaquarium com]. Center and the Global Center for Health As part of an ongoing $750 million revitalization Innovation . [www .clevelandconventions .com] project, at the east bank of the boasts a 1,200 foot riverfront boardwalk that offers stunning views of the river and Cleveland skyline, running alongside new trendy restaurants and clubs such as Vegas-style pool club FWD and dueling- piano bar The Big Bang . [www .flatseast com]. Recently named America’s “Best Food Lover’s Market” by Food Network Magazine, the , located in City, is truly one-of-a- kind . Here you can find more than 100 vendors from across Cleveland Skyline, © Cody York for ThisIsCleveland.com the area selling specialty meats, cheeses, baked goods The Metropolitan at The 9, a $250 million and prepared foods in a subway-tiled, barrel- historic renovation of a long-vacant Cleveland vaulted concourse . [www .westsidemarket .org] landmark property, opened its doors in September The Great Lakes Science Center features 2014 as Cleveland’s first indoor resort . The hundreds of cool hands-on exhibits that make iconic property has transformed the former science, technology, engineering and math come AmeriTrust complex into a 150-room Marriot alive for people of all ages . As the official site Autograph Collection hotel, 190 apartments, a of the NASA Glenn Visitor Center, guests can modern Mediterranean restaurant, a theater, explore exhibits and artifacts demonstrating the private indoor dog park and a speakeasy bar importance of aeronautics, science and space and nightclub inside of classic 20th century bank exploration . [www .greatscience .com] vaults . [www .metropolitancleveland .com]

Special thanks to Downtown Cleveland Alliance and Destination Cleveland. Please visit www.downtownclevelandalliance and www.thisiscleveland.com for more information. Did you know? Famous Clevelanders include George Just across the Cuyahoga River sits Ohio Steinbrenner III, Cy Young, Bob Feller, Don City, which was rated by USA TODAY as one of King, Jerry Siegel & Joe Shuster (the creators of the best neighborhoods for bar hopping in the Superman), , Halle Berry, Bob Hope, world, amongst the likes of Dublin, Ireland and Don Shula, Joe Walsh, Kid Cudi and Patricia Seville, Spain . While in Ohio City, make sure to Heaton – to name only a few . drink a Dortmunder Gold from the Great Lakes Stadium mustard, that brown mustard served at Brewing Company or check out the many other ballparks nationwide, was invented in Cleveland breweries and restaurants lining W . 25th street . by Polish immigrant Joe Bertman . [www .ohiocity .org] The movie A Christmas Story was filmed here Cleveland is home to rock and roll, but do you in Cleveland . Take a trip to Tremont to visit the know why? house the movie was filmed in . Other movies In 1939, Leo Mintz opened The Record filmed in Cleveland include: The Deer Hunter, Rendezvous in Cleveland, a store that featured , Light of Day, Planes, Trains mostly rhythm & blues records . & Automobiles, Antwone Fisher, Major League, In 1952, Mintz convinced local disc jockey The Shawshank Redemption, Men In Black, to start playing a few rhythm & Double Dragon, Air Force One, Proximity, The blues records on his “Moondog Show” on WJW OH in Ohio, American Splendor, Welcome to broadcasting . The records quickly became a hit , Spiderman 3, The Avengers, I, Alex with his listeners and Freed coined the music Cross, America: The Winter Soldier, Draft “rock n’ roll ”. Day. On March 21, 1952, Freed put on the first ever “rock n’ roll” show in Cleveland and calls it “The Moondog Coronation Ball .” The show caused an overflow of crowds breaking down the doors and storming the arena where a full-scale riot escalated and ultimately canceled the show . “Rock n’ Roll” makes headlines everywhere! Four miles east of downtown Cleveland sits , the most concentrated square mile of arts and culture in the country . This includes the , where visitors can view the works of Monet, Dali and Picasso…FOR FREE! Guests can also East Fourth Street, © Larry E. Highbaugh, Jr. check out the , consistently for ThisIsCleveland.com rated one of the top 10 orchestras in the world . [www .universitycircle org]. Cleveland is home to more than 117 different ethnicities that are represented throughout its Cleveland’s first neighborhood and unique neighborhoods like Ohio City, Coventry, downtown’s oldest commercial center, the Detroit-Shoreway, Little Italy and Asiatown . Warehouse District, is an exciting area that Cleveland has an especially strong Eastern offers a variety of residential, commercial and European heritage . entertainment-oriented venues – mixing our rich history with trendy developments . The District’s In 1970, the first ever NFL “Monday Night well-known West 6th Street is home to several Football” game was played at Cleveland popular restaurants, nightclubs and bars that Municipal Stadium with the make for a fun night out in downtown Cleveland . defeating the . [www .warehousedistrict org]. The Historic Gateway District, home to The conserves Quicken Loans Arena, Progressive Field, East significant natural resources in 4th Street, five hotels, unique stores and over and enhances people’s lives by providing safe, 60 restaurants and bars, is the most visited high quality outdoor education, recreation, and neighborhood in downtown Cleveland . Take a zoological opportunities . Discover Cleveland’s short walk from The Q to The Arcade on Euclid “Emerald Necklace” with nearly 23,000 acres Avenue, the first indoor shopping mall in America of land including 18 reservations, 7 nature/ and one of the city’s most treasured landmarks . visitor centers, 8 golf courses and more! [www .clevelandgatewaydistrict .com] [www .clevelandmetroparks .com]