{"id":7952,"date":"2017-06-26T18:12:08","date_gmt":"2017-06-26T22:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonnba.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=7952"},"modified":"2017-06-26T18:12:08","modified_gmt":"2017-06-26T22:12:08","slug":"coast-2-coast-episode-32-cleveland-cavaliers-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2017\/06\/26\/coast-2-coast-episode-32-cleveland-cavaliers-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Coast 2 Coast Podcast Episode #32: Cleveland Cavaliers Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprobasketball.com\/2017\/06\/23\/coast-2coast-podcast-nba-draft-instant-reaction\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NBA Draft<\/a> in the rear-view mirror and free agency quickly approaching, Austin is joined by a couple of friends, Noah and James, for a tangent-filled show. They begin their discussion with the Cleveland Cavaliers as both guests are Cavs supporters. They ponder what the Cavaliers can do to adjust to the new Golden State Warriors machine. Would <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/g\/georgpa01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Paul George<\/a><\/strong> shift the landscape enough to bring an NBA title back East? What would Cleveland&#8217;s future look like if <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/j\/jamesle01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LeBron James<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0decides to hop over to Los Angeles? Other names such as <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/a\/anthoca01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Carmelo Anthony<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/g\/gayru01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rudy Gay<\/a><\/strong> are brought up as possible acquisitions for the Cavs, who continue to search for any possible solution.<\/p>\n<p>After that, the group delves into a trio of fascinating historic NBA questions. Topics include the never-ending LeBron James-<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/j\/jordami01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Michael Jordan<\/a><\/strong> conversation, as well as their top five point guards in NBA history. The two Cavs fans settle on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/c\/curryst01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stephen Curry<\/a><\/strong> as the second best point guard of all time already. They also talk about <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/o\/olajuha01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hakeem Olajuwon<\/a><\/strong> versus <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/o\/onealsh01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Shaquille O&#8217;Neal<\/a><\/strong> and who would be better suited for today&#8217;s NBA.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Coast 2 Coast Podcast Episode #32: Cleveland Cavaliers Future<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/media\/player\/gew3p-6c4d5d?from=yiiadmin\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Austin Cracraft and Dante Guarneri discuss everything from the wide world of the NBA, whether it be the latest update from a Banana Boat or a legend being thrown out of the Garden.<\/em><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Follow the show on Twitter\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/Coast2CoastPod\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@Coast2CoastPod<\/a>.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><em>Austin is a Staff Writer and Podcast Host\/Producer at\u00a0Last Word On Sports. He currently attends the\u00a0University of Oregon\u00a0and enjoys watching, talking about, and playing sports. He is a shameless Colorado Buffaloes\u00a0and\u00a0Oregon Ducks\u00a0fan.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Austin&#8217;s friend Noah is a student at Northern Colorado University and staunch Cleveland Cavaliers supporter.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Austin&#8217;s friend James is a student at the University of Colorado and has long been a huge LeBron James and Carmelo Anthony fan.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo:<\/p>\n<div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 594px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.ca\/detail\/692364994\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 66.666667% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/692364994?et=Qf63NvjAQc5hHnHZQuwFJQ&amp;tld=ca&amp;viewMoreLink=off&amp;sig=PCML_4Rut7-HL_Krs4_fioITYz_ZFhdzlgEc1jPj2G0=&amp;caption=true\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Austin hops on the pod, along with his friends Noah and James, to discuss where the Cleveland Cavaliers future stands as well as NBA historical questions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":128,"featured_media":7957,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[36,2,62],"tags":[65,896,39,552,38,607,96,895,50,48],"class_list":["post-7952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcasts","category-featured","category-nba","tag-basketball","tag-basketball-podcast","tag-cleveland-cavaliers","tag-coast-2-coast","tag-lebron-james","tag-michael-jordan","tag-nba","tag-nba-podcast","tag-paul-george","tag-stephen-curry"],"modified_by":"Lior Kozai (Managing Editor)","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/128"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}