LeBron was shooting like a blind Stevie Wonder. When choosing shots, he had less selectivity that Cuyahoga Community College. In short, he played like his favorite team, the New York Yankees.

But, maybe he was doing this all just to improve his public image. After all, he could help a lot of low income families with all those bricks he provided.

A few weeks ago, I told Sports Brethren in an interview, that the Cavs will make the playoffs again this year. I’m thinking about recanting that.

Remember that show called Pros vs. Joes a while back that pitted pro athletes against regular people? That’s what this game looked like.

It’s fun to joke about how bad the Cavs played, but in all seriousness, this was an opening day matchup against a top team. The Miami Heat opened the season last year with a 108-66 loss to the Chicago Bulls and ended up making the playoffs… after struggling to break .500 for the first half of the season.

I fully expect the Cavs to make the playoffs. They overpreformed last year and obtained the #2 seed and a Finals berth. After neither improving nor losing any key players, the Cavs are unlikely to fall 6 spots and miss the playoffs, but they probably will contend for the Eastern Conference title either. The East has imrpoved and the Cavs have not.

Further, the Cavs have still not resigned Anderson Varejao who was at one point threatening to play in Europe. Sasha Pavlovic, who, in the same situation, as a restricted free agent, was also considering Europe, has no resigned, and should be playing within a week. However, Varejao, as the Cavs only backup big man, and an athletic version of Zydrunas Ilgauskas, is a more important piece.

Agreement is far from being reached. Reports from the summer had the Cavs offer Varejao, who is currently under contract for $950,000 a year $20 million over four years, but Varejao wants at least twice as much. For his talent and youth, Varajao could very well be worth that much, but the Cavs salary cap situation wouldn’t be too pretty with two centers both being paid $10 million a year. Z is locked up until 2009-10, so major spending to improve the team would be hard before then. And by then, the media wants us to believe that LeBron will be off to New York…