subject: The Cleveland Cavaliers Tickets : One Of The Best Professional Team Of All Time [print this page] The Cleveland Cavaliers (also known as the Cavs) are a professional basketball team based in Cleveland, Ohio. They began playing in the National Basketball Association (NBA) in 1970 as an expansion team.
During the 2010 offseason, the Cavaliers fired head coach Mike Brown, along with most of their coaching staff. The General Manager Danny Ferry resigned on June 4, 2010. Chris Grant was promoted to replace Danny Ferry. The Cavaliers went over a month without a new head coach. On July 1, former Los Angeles Lakers guard and former New Jersey Nets and New Orleans Hornets head coach Byron Scott was named the team's 18th head coach.
On July 8, LeBron James announced his intentions to leave the team and join Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh to the Miami Heat.
The Cavaliers spent the rest of the 2010 off-season rebuilding their team after James' departure. On July 23, they signed 2009 first-round pick Christian Eyenga. On July 26, the Cavs traded Delonte West and Sebastian Telfair to the Minnesota Timberwolves for Ramon Sessions, Ryan Hollins and a 2013 second round draft pick.
On July 30, the Cavaliers signed free agent Joey Graham to a one-year, veteran's minimum contract with a team option for a second year. On August 16, the Cavs signed undrafted Jamaican rookie Samardo Samuels to a three-year, $2.3 million contract. On September 20, Jawad Williams and the Cavs decided to resign and reached a one-year $1.02 contract.
When the Cleveland Cavaliers debuted in the NBA in 1970, the team's original jerseys were wine and gold. The first jerseys featured the feathered treatment of the letter C in Cavaliers. In 1974, they changed into the classic block lettering and checkerboard pattern that was synonymous to the 'Miracle of Richfield' teams of 1976. In 1980, the gold shade was changed from yellowish to metallic, and the uniforms removed the checkerboard pattern and placed the stripes above Cleveland and below the uniform number, the only time the city name was featured in both home and away jerseys.
In the 1983-84 season, the colors were changed to burnt orange, blue and white. The first Cavaliers uniform under the new scheme featured the Cavs logo (with a V in the shape of a hoop and circle above as basketball) in an arched pattern and the player name sewn onto the back shoulder as a patch, with orange being the primary color in both the away and home uniforms. However, in the 1987-88 season, orange was relegated as a secondary color, and blue was used instead as the primary for the away and home uniforms; minor change in the 1989-90 season include the city name on the blue away uniforms.
Coinciding with the move to Gund Arena in the 1994-95 season, the Cavs changed logos and uniforms, adding black in addition to the already existing blue, orange and white colors. The uniforms used from 1994-99 featured a blue splash on the uniforms, with the city name on the black away uniforms, and the team nickname on the white home uniforms.
On the home uniforms, the word 'Cavs' was in orange with black line, with numbers in black with white line; color scheme changed for the 1996-97 season, with 'Cavs' and numbers in black with orange line and 'Cleveland' in left leg of the shorts with blue splash.
On the away uniforms, the word 'Cleveland' was also in orange with black line, with numbers in white with black line; color scheme changed in 1996-97 season, with 'Cleveland' and numbers in white with orange line and 'Cavs' in left leg of the shorts with blue splash. In both away jerseys, 'Cleveland' was slightly slanted upward.
In the 1999-2000 season, the Cavaliers opted to go for a cleaner look, eliminating the splash and adding an orange and blue line that runs through the shorts. The home jerseys feature the team nickname and the uniform numbers are in blue with black line, while on the away jerseys, they feature the city name and the uniform numbers in white with blue line. They were used until the 2002-03 season.
The Cavaliers returned to the original wine and gold scheme in the 2003-04 season (metallic gold and crimson shade of wine), although they added navy blue to the color scheme. The home jersey was white, with the word "Cavaliers" in wine lettering with gold trim on the front, the player's name in wine lettering with gold trim on the back, the player's numbers in navy blue, and wine and gold trim on the sides.
The team's standard road uniform was wine-colored, with the word "Cleveland," the player's name, and the player's numbers all in white lettering with gold trim, as well as white and gold trim on the sides.The team's third/alternate uniform was navy blue with the word "Cleveland", the player's name, and the player's numbers all in white lettering with gold trim, as well as a wine, gold, and navy blue checkerboard trim. The checkerboard trim is a tribute to the original Cavaliers jerseys from the '70s.
The Cavaliers will debut new uniforms before the start of the 2010-11 NBA season, to coincide with the team returning to the original shades of wine and gold used in the 1970s. The home uniform is white with a wine and gold horizontal stripe trim on the collar, sleeves, waistband, and pant legs, with wine lettering for the name and number, and white shoes and socks. The road uniform is wine colored with the same stripe trim, and gold lettering on the name and number, with black shoes and socks.
Both uniforms feature the secondary "Sword C" logo on each pant leg, and the slogan All for one, One for all stitched on the inside of the collar. Unlike past years, there is no third alternate uniform.
