Former NBA MVP LeBron James scored with 23 points while fellow Big Three member Kyrie Irving returned with Cleveland’s Game 4 rout of the Atlanta Hawks and secured the first finals slot as the Cavaliers won the Eastern Conference championship. Cleveland Cavaliers sweep the Hawks and waits for the winner of the Western Conference finals between the Golden State Warriors and the Houston Rockets.
By sweeping the Eastern Conference top seeded team, Atlanta Hawks, the Cavaliers earned their second trip to the NBA finals and the fifth straight visit of LeBron James after he previously led the Miami Heat to the NBA Finals for the fourth straight.
LeBron James returned to his former team the Cleveland Cavaliers and will try to end the city’s NBA championship drought dating back to 1964. The Altanta Hawks relied offensively with Jeff Teague who scored 17 points and Paul Millsap who added with 16 for the top-seeded Hawks who enters the playoffs with 60-games winning games during the regular NBA season.
Aside from LeBron James, Cavaliers team mate J.R. Smith also scored with 18 points and Tristan Thompson added with 16 points and grabbed 11 rebounds during the Game Four of the Eastern Conference Finals.
During the year 2007, LeBron James was also responsible for the Cleveland Cavaliers first NBA finals appearance but they were swept by the San Antonio Spurs. Despite being considered as an underdog, the Cavaliers was predicted to regained in the next season but James left Cleveland and joined the Miami Heat, the team which he led with his consecutive finals appearance.
Cleveland Cavaliers got through the last two rounds of the Eastern Conference playoffs without forward and superstar Kevin Love, who sustained a season-ending shoulder injury. All-Star point guard Kyrie Irving who missed the previous Cleveland’s games due to tendinitis in left knee, returned with 16 points.
Watch the Highlights Video of the Cavs vs. Hawks Game 4:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ia2aPVHNUBU