BadBaronRudigor

Who were the 10 greatest players in the history of the Cleveland Cavaliers based SOLELY on what they did with this franchise?

Off the top of my head:

LeBron James
Brad Daugherty
Mark Price
Terrell Brandon
Larry Nance

World B. Free
Austin Carr
Zydrunas Ilgauskas
Roy Hinson
Hot Rod Williams

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jericho

That's a pretty good list. I think I'd give Hot Rod's spot to Ron Harper.

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BadBaronRudigor's All-Time League Draft:

C - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar/Nate Thurmond
PF - Charles Barkley/Bob McAdoo
SF - Julius Erving/Larry Nance/Billy Cunningham
SG - Alvin Robertson/Ray Allen/Pete Maravich
PG - Jason Kidd/Isiah Thomas

Diophantos

What did Roy Hinson ever do to be there over Harper or Hot Rod? Hell, even over Andre Miller or Shawn Kemp?

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BadBaronRudigor

he got traded even up for Brad Daugherty, lol . . . you are absolutely right, Harper should be on there instead of Hinson.

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Sunsfan81

1. Lebron James
2. Brad Daugherty
3. Mark Price
4. World B. Free
5. Larry Nance
6. Austin Carr
7. Zydrunas Ilgauskas
8. Campy Russell
9. Terrell Brandon
10. Jim Chones

Brandname

I can't believe Lebron is already the best Cavalier ever. We don't exactly have a storied history, but that's really amazing.

Daugherty and Price are up there, too. Pretty much the whole team in the early nineties was very good.

EDIT - I also want to give a shout out to Z for being one of the most loyal and classy guys in the entire NBA and rarely getting credit for it. His franchise loyalty has easily approached Garnett's (stuck with a 17 win team with plenty of teams wanting to have a skilled 7-2 center), but he almost never gets credit for that.

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Najee

LeBron James is the first player Cleveland has had, IMO, who has shown legitimate hall of fame potential. Given his age and what he has accomplished so far, it's not inconceivable that he will be clearly the best player ever in a Cavaliers uniform.

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PauloCatarino

He is not (or at least, he shouldn't be viewed as such).

Mak Price is the greatest Cavalier ever (at least, so far).

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Sunsfan81

No way. Lebron has already meant much more to the Cavaliers franchise than Mark Price ever did. He led that mediocre team to the NBA Finals.

PauloCatarino

Context, young grasshopper. Lebron led a team to the Finals in a woefull Conference just to be swept.

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