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Cleveland Cavaliers, often referred to as Cavs, is an American professional basketball team based in Cleveland. Cavaliers compete at the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the Central Division of the Eastern League Conference. The team began playing for the expansion team in 1970, along with the Portland Trail Blazers and Buffalo Braves. Home games were first held at the Cleveland Arena from 1970 to 1974, and from 1974 to 1994 by the Richfield Coliseum. Since 1994, Caves has been playing home games at the Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse in downtown Cleveland, which is common to the Cleveland Arena gladiators. Cleveland Football League and the Cleveland Monsters of the American Hockey League. Dan Gilbert has owned the team since March 2005.

Cavaliers opened their first season, losing their first 15 games, and struggled hard in the early years, taking not the best sixth place in the Eastern Conference for the first five seasons. The team won their first Central Division title in 1976, which also marked the first winning season and the appearance in the playoffs in the history of the franchise, where they reached the final of the Eastern Conference. The franchise was acquired by Ted Stephen in 1980. Stepen’s tenure as owner was marked by six changes in coaching, dubious deals and draft decisions, and poor attendance, resulting in financial losses of $15 million. At that time, the Cavs scored 66–180 and survived a 24-game losing streak spanning the 1981–82 and 1982–83 seasons.

• Head coach: John Beilein
• History: Cleveland Cavaliers; 1970–present
• Arena/Stadium: Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse
• Retired numbers: 7 (7, 11, 22, 25, 34, 42, 43)
• Owners: Dan Gilbert (majority), Gordon Gund, Usher (minority)

George and Gordon Gund acquired the franchise in 1983. In the second half of the 1980s and throughout most of the 1990s, Cavs was a regular rival in the playoffs, led by players such as Mark Price and Brad Dougherty, and reached the finals of the Eastern Conference. in 1992. However, after the appearance of the team in the playoffs in 1998, Kavs had six losing seasons in a row without the playoffs. Cleveland was awarded the best overall choice in the 2003 project, and they chose LeBron James. Behind James and Zydrunas Ilgauskas, the gentlemen again became regular contenders for the playoffs by 2005. They first appeared in the NBA finals in 2007 after winning the first Eastern Conference championship in franchise history. After failing to return to the NBA finals in the next three seasons, James joined the Miami Heat in 2010. As a result, the Cavaliers finished the 2010–11 season last season, losing a series of 26 games in which, as of 2017, is considered the longest in the NBA history for one season and the second overall. However, from 2010 to 2014, the team won the NBA draft lottery three times, first in 2011 when they chose Kyrie Irving, and again in 2013 and 2014.

LeBron James returned to Cavs in 2014 and led the team to four consecutive appearances in the NBA Finals. In 2016, the Cavaliers won their first NBA championship, marking Cleveland’s first major sports title since 1964. The victory in the NBA finals over the Golden State Warriors marked the first time in the history of the finals when the team returned to win the series after three games. to one. The Cavaliers held 22 playoff matches and won seven Central Division titles, five Eastern Conference titles and one NBA title.

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