If you listen to the national media, it's almost as if they feel bad for the Spurs, feeling they're not being truly tested against the Cavs in the Finals, similarly to how they tore through the Jazz like a hot knife through butter in the Western Conference Finals. In Erik Cassano's latest, he says that the Spurs opening shot across the bow was certainly impressive. He also says this series is far from over.

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Well that was sure anticlimactic. The Cavs fell last night in game one of the NBA Finals, 85-76 to the Spurs in a defensive struggle that saw San Antonio hold LeBron almost completely in check. Tim Duncan and Tony Parker both had incredible games for the Spurs, and the Cavs will clearly need to come up with answers for these two if they have any hope of ending the city of Cleveland's 43 year drought without a pro sports title. John Hnat breaks down the game for us in his morning column.

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Simply put, this is one of the finest articles we've ever run on this site, and one of the better columns I've read in my 30+ years as a rabid Cleveland sports fan. The first time I read it, I laughed. I cried. I reminisced as the last two decades flashed before my eyes. Mansfield Lucas talks about the trials and tribulations we've all been through as fans. And says we are participants soon to be fully delivered from a lifetime of disappointment by one of us. The Chosen One, from Akron, Ohio shall lead us. A MUST READ.

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The NBA Finals begin tonight, and despite being sizable underdogs in Vegas ... most Clevelanders feel reasonably confident that the Cavaliers have a pretty good shot to bring the first professional sports championship back to Cleveland since 1964. We wanted to find out if our writers felt the same way, and asked them to make their NBA Finals predictions in our latest Roundtable.

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