Cavs Fans: Time to Start Believing

Well the NBA season's beginning has come and gone and the front runners for the NBA Finals trophy have jumped out to an early lead. The Los Angeles Lakers look nearly unbeatable in a somewhat depleted Western Conference. The Eastern Conference seems to be a little more confusing.

The Atlanta Hawks, Orlando Magic, Philadelphia 76ers, and Toronto Raptors all feel like they have a legitimate shot at the championship. However, the road to facing L.A. in the Finals leads through either Ohio or New England; Cavaliers or Celtics.

The Celtics are the defending World Champions that still possess the "Big Three" in Garnett, Pierce, and Allen. They lost a couple of role players; however, the emergence of Leon Powe seems to have counter-balanced the departures. The Celtics look very capable of defending their crown. There just seems to be one small problem. Or should I say, one very large, "King-sized" problem.

The Cleveland Cavaliers are poised and ready to take back their Eastern Conference title from the Celtics, and "the King" Lebron James is ready to bring a title, FINALLY, to his beloved Ohio.

Before the season began, few people thought the acquisition of point guard, Mo Williams, would have a significant impact on Cleveland's title hopes. Well, as they say, "only time will tell." Not only has the acquisition bolstered an already talented line-up, it has people thinking Mo could be the Scottie Pippen figure to Lebron.

The Cavaliers have jumped off to the best start since 1994 and despite losing to the Pistons early in the year, the play of Lebron James, and emergence of the role players seems to sparking excitement all over Cleveland.

Let's remember that the Chicago Bulls accomplished their title dominance, not by Jordan scoring 45 every night, but by Grant scoring 13 and Rodman bringing down 13 rebounds. The Cavaliers finally, it seems, given Lebron the role players he needs.

So far this year, no team has come up with a defense for a driving Lebron dunking, or kicking it out to a capable three point shooting trio of Williams, Gibson, and West. Even Big Z, and Ben Wallace get in the action. In the past, when Lebron had a bad shooting night, it was a chalk up in the loss column for the Cavaliers. With the emergence of the role players, Lebron can finally BE carried and not CARRY his team.

The season is still early, a lot can happen. But in Cleveland, the Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame, is not the only thing rocking this year.