Cleveland Cavaliers: Your Time Is Now

The Cleveland Cavaliers will win the NBA championship.

BAM! It's on the table. Take it or leave it, it's going to happen. 

As a fanbase, we are witnessing something not just special, not just incredible, but important. 

The importance of what LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers are doing as a team is so significant that we may not realize it until years from now.

The brotherly love, the determination, and the ability to understand how to be ambassadors of the game has not been brought to the table in the NBA since the 1980s.  

This revelation is so important because it is willing an inferior team to the top of the NBA, and it is going to change the way teams in the NBA, and all sports for that matter, build their teams.

The New England Patriots did the same thing in the NFL, running with a star in Tom Brady and building correctly around him, by bringing in players based on personality and determination. The entire NFL has followed the same method since the Pats won their second super bowl.

We all know the Cavs are bringing the word fun back to the NBA, but many don't understand that this has been going on since LeBron entered the league in 2003.

Cleveland has always had the best locker room chemistry, and it has translated onto the court. There is no other explanation for the 2006 Cavs taking the Pistons to seven games, the 2007 Cavs reaching the finals, and the 2008 Cavs taking the eventual champion Celtics to the final minute of a game seven.  

No team with Eric Snow, Damon Jones, Sasha Pavlovic, and Flip Murray should be competing deep into the playoffs. Not to mention Drew Gooden and Donyell Marshall taking turns at power forward.

The Cavs now face the challenge of the Orlando Magic who have been proclaimed as the most talented team in the NBA by TNT's Kenny Smith. While the Magic lack spectacular guard play, they make up for it with a front-court of 6'10", 6'11", and 7'1" in Hedo Turkoglu, Rashard Lewis, and Dwight Howard.  

The Orlando Magic have given the Cavaliers problems all season, winning the series 2-1. The only factor preventing a series sweep was another unbelievable fourth quarter performance by LeBron James in a game in which he scored 43 points, dished out eight assists, and had 12 rebounds.

Orlando won the other two contests easily by double digits as the Cavaliers struggled to score more than 88 points in both games.  

However, Cleveland will win. It's teamwork, it's trust, it's destiny. 

Not many fans realize this because it is hard to follow a team that is not local for an entire season, but the Cavaliers raise their game dramatically in the playoffs. 

The last time the Cavs truly did not put up a fight in an NBA playoff game was back in 2007 against the Spurs during the NBA Finals: a Spurs team that was dominant in every fashion of the game, being the championship pick since training camp.  

The Cavs have exceeded expectations each of the past four seasons they have been in the playoffs, taking superior teams to the brink of defeat, if not actually defeating them (Ask Paul Pierce about last year's series).

The Cavs have added an All-Star point guard in Mo Williams, and while he has not been playing at an All-Star level this post-season statistically, he has played with All-Star effort and continues to remain poised as a shooter.

Cleveland also has a premier defender in Delonte West, whether he is recognized as one or not. West has been asked to guard opposing teams' best guards all season and has done a tremendous job, contributing offensively by increasing his ppg to 15 and 3-point percentage to 43 in the playoffs.

The ability of the Cleveland front-court to shoot the mid-range jump shot will bring out the big men of Orlando clearing room in the paint for LeBron to penetrate, dish, or finish.

Orlando is a terrific team with an incredible amount of talent, but they are a year behind in chemistry, leadership, and experience. While taking a big step the last two games of the Eastern Conference Semi's, Dwight Howard has not yet matured into the young leader that Lebron James, Dwayne Wade, and Chris Paul have.  

His team does not trust him the same way the Cavs believe in Lebron. Lebron is the most unselfish superstar in the NBA and is still able to demand the ball from his teammates without question at any given point in a game.  

Not many other players will defer to a teammate the way the Cavs will to LeBron, knowing 100 percent that he will make the right call in crucial situations.  

This matchup can be broken down into so much further depth and it will be by analysts, fans, and commentators over the next two weeks of play.

But if there is one factor in determining a winner, believe in the Cavs the way they believe in each other.