Inside the NBA Crew Mocks Cavaliers With Taylor Swift Banner as Knicks Build 19-Point Game 4 Lead
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Updated · USA TODAY · May 25
Inside the NBA Crew Mocks Cavaliers With Taylor Swift Banner as Knicks Build 19-Point Game 4 Lead
2 articles · Updated · USA TODAY · May 25
68-49 at halftime, Cleveland trailed New York in Game 4 of the Eastern Conference finals, prompting ESPN's "Inside the NBA" crew to ridicule the Cavaliers' effort on air.
Charles Barkley said viewers should learn what "quit" means — "the verb of that is 'Ca-va-liers'" — before the show flashed a fake season banner reading, "NBA Playoffs/Taylor Swift came to one of our games."
The halftime roast landed with Cleveland already down 3-0 in the series and facing a sweep on its home court.
The Cavaliers had survived two Game 7s against Toronto and Detroit earlier in the playoffs, but after their Game 1 collapse they have been overmatched by the Knicks in this series.
After this humiliating sweep, can the financially-strapped Cavaliers rebuild, or is this star-studded era already over?
Did the Cavaliers truly quit, or were they outmatched by a historically dominant New York Knicks playoff run?
Was trading for James Harden the fatal move that sealed Cleveland's disastrous playoff fate before the series began?