Your Favorite Cavaliers Memory

[TheAdmin]

Talking with CDT got me curious. What is your favorite Cavaliers memory?

Mine was in '94. It was the year that Robert Parish was supposed to retire as a Celtic. Right as the game was ending Howie Chizek, the Cavs public address announcer tells the crowd that this will be Parish's last game ever in Cleveland.

The Crowd started to clap and then stand and before long Parish was given a thunderous ovation that lastest several minutes. The crowd kept clapping and finally Parish was given a microphone. He very awkwardly thanked the crowd and said he never expected anything like this from the Cleveland fans.

Just thinking about it makes me smile. That was my favorite Cavalier memory of all time and it wasn't Cavalier team related but that night really made me Cavs fan for life.

So, whats your favorite experience?

 

[cdt]

Mine was when I went to the Cavs vs Raptors game one night...VC didn't play due to injury [shocker]. It was cool to see Hakeem Olajuwon though, a true legend..and he was so quick and agile even in his last few years in the league.

The next day I got to meet all of the Cavaliers...I have a picture on my dresser of me and DeSagana Diop. My mom has Z on video picking his nose several times. :chuckles: I got all of their autographs including [Tyrone Hill, Trajan "Alaskan Assassin" Langdon, Andre Miller, Ricky Davis, Z, Wesley Person, BRYANT STITH!]

We got a tour of the locker room, and the training facility and everything..

The players showed us different drills and things like that, and then we broke up and got to play 2 on 2 with the players. It was me and Andre Miller vs Ricky Davis and Wesley Person and it's definitely something I'll never forget.

 

[Cleveland56]

Cavs Pistons Game 6 ECF 2007

And being there.

 

[B Mac]

Z and LeBron bear hugging each other after we won the ECF.

 

[PIP]

Cavs Pistons Game 6 ECF 2007

And being there.

Yup... Aside from winning a championship, there will not be a better feeling than watching this team take over in that 4th, and knowing midway through the 4th quarter that the team was going to the finals...Watching the Pistons self-destruct with each and every Gibson dagger was sweet revenge...

Close games are nice and exciting, but there's nothing better than being ahead in the 4th quarter, and knowing you're advancing...:headbang:

 

[PIP]

Z and LeBron bear hugging each other after we won the ECF.

Also known as........

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[cavincali]

Game 6 when the crowd went nuts once there was only a minute left. The realization that we were going on to the finals was the highest moment of watching this, at one time, shitty franchise.

 

[Deadlock]

Game 5 06 Playoffs vs Wizards. Best sporting event I have ever been to.

 

[ChicagoCavFan]

If I was younger, the more recent Cavalier events would definitely be my favorite. I get very excited for each game - actually running around my house yelling with my brother on the phone - at times jumping up so high that I smack my head on the ceiling.

However, the great memories are made when you are a young, impressionable kid. I have a ton of them. However, the one that sticks in my head is bittersweet (and will never be forgotten). As a family, we used to head to Richfield all the time. I've been to several playoff games. This memory, though, was located at our house. The memory I speak of.........











The goddamn shot. Yep, Jordan over Ehlo. I've cried over a couple Cleveland sporting events in my day. Sure enough, this was one of them. I was so emotionally invested in this contest. The pure elation of the Ehlo layup off the inbounds pass.....to the disappointment of the shot over the aforementioned Craig. I recall running up and down our downstairs hallway over the excitement. Then, when the game was over, upstairs in my bed with some tears of pain.

Its really a shame that team never experienced the Finals.

 

[AustinCarr]

Mine was very quickly followed by my most painful memory as a cavs fan.

Ehlo drives drom the left side off the inbounds pass. Gets the layup to put the Cavs up by one!! The crowd, and eveyone at home, goes absolutely NUTS!!!!!

Then, of course, some bald headed assclown had to mess it up on the next play of the game. Ehlo's shot to put them up gets erased from the public conciousness by Jordan hitting the shot over him. Hell, Jordan wasnt even Ehlo's man. He came over on a switch. Harper had Jordan.

I also liked the series winning three by Jones. And there was the Ehlo i bounds to Brad back to Ehlo....FOR THREE!! CAVS WIN!

From the Fratello era, my favorite moments were when the Cavs won a game, down 1 with .2 seconds left, with an ally oop to Ty Hill from the inbounds. There was also a game i went to against The Blazers where Phills scored a career high 42. It went into double OT. There were just amazing clutch plays by all sort of guys, from Phills, to Mills...hell, even Ferry. Ferry actually had a driving dunk in the game.

 

[Pioneer10]

Lebron's 48 special: still love the TNT replays of the shocked Detroit fans just staring in a daze after the game was over

 

[LBJHeath]

Those of you who are young will undoubtedly name one of the recent accomplishments made by the Cavaliers as your favorite memory.

Those of you who are a bit more aged, may recall previous exploits by other Cavalier teams, that made our collective hearts jump.

In either case, the memory(s) is/are equally exhilarating.

Here is a quote from the book by Leo Tolstoy;"Anna Karenina", that gives an excellent example of exhilaration:

Quote from Leo Tolstoy

But in that nervous tension, and in the visions that filled her imagination, there was nothing disagreeable or gloomy: on the contrary there was something blissful, glowing, and exhilarating.

from:Anna Karenina

Leo's "Anna" speaks of the Oblonskys' house, where things were always in disarray, and confusing.

Since I am a tad bit older than most, the tentacles of my memory, and thus it's exhilarating moments, reach back a mite further than most.

In order for us to have these exhilarating moments, we first must experience it's opposite... the lows.

AustinCarr states that his favorite moment was quickly followed "by my most painful memory as a cavs fan"

It is these painful memories that make the exhilarating ones what they are, for without them, the other wouldn't exist.

Now that I have rambled, and given ample explanation, I will give my favorite Cavalier memory:

The day the Cavs selected LeBron #1... that is my best memory, because after that day....it was no longer a question of "if", rather, it was a question of "when."

 

[KI4MVP]

the last two pistons games this year certainly stand out, especially the post game celebration of game 6 and the stunned fans still sitting motionless 20 minutes after game 5. Another stand out memory that hasn't been mentioned is the instant classic dual with Wade at the Q in 06.

 

[Jon]

Listening to Joe Tait with a transistor radio in my ear screaming himself horse.

 

[Glen Infante]

I think this was in 94.

.03 seconds left on the clock.

Chris Mills inbouncing the ball from the side.

The only way to win the game is an alley oop.

Chris looks

He looks.

Tosses the lob pass...

Up goes TYRONE for the slammm....

ITS GOES IN! CAVALIERS WIN THE GAME!

Have a GOOOOD night evvvvvvverybody!