Cleveland's coach won the award, which is given based on cooperation with the media and fans and for on-court excellence.

With their backs against the wall, the Cavs face a critical turning point — can they rise to the occasion and prove they're ready to write their own playoff legacy?

Tuesday gives us two Game 5s with wholly different vibes. In Cleveland, things seem to be narrowly and furiously constricting around the top-seeded Cavaliers. The 64-win Cavs are suddenly hobbling around the brink,

The Indiana Pacers blew out the Cleveland Cavaliers so much during Sunday's Game 4 of their second-round series that one of the team's most famous fans started feeling sorry for the visitors.

It would have been easy to envision the Cavs rallying around an altercation in the 1st quarter of Game 4. Instead, the Pacers rolled to a blowout win.

Yes, 'Caitlin from Downtown' calling into Pacers' postgame radio show is who you think it is. And she was just as impressed as you at Game 4 win.

Teams that lead a seven-game series by a 3-1 margin have a 280-13 record of closing it out. That means 13 teams did it, including the 2016 Cavs with LeBron James. That was in the NBA Finals, the only team ever to come back from 3-1 and win a title.

LeBron James and Kyrie Irving both went for over 40 points in game five, dominated in game six and the series culminated in a game winning sidestep three pointer from Kyrie Irving over Stephen Curry with less than a minute left in the seventh game.