Halloween: 5 of the scariest Cleveland Cavaliers since 1990
By Chad Porto
LeBron James
Few players can do what LeBron James can do. Once thought to be an athletic point-forward who can pass and score inside but not much else, James developed a reliable jumper and three-point shot as he matured. While he never became a Step Curry-like shooter from three, he raised his average considerably over recent years.
Combine that with his ability to excel in defensive-minded systems, and the fact that he’s a walking double-double machine for 19 years, and you can see why James would scare anyone he faced.
Carlos Boozer
Basketball doesn’t have a lot of intimidating-looking players historically, and very few of them ever played for Cleveland but Carlos Boozer was an exception. While he may be disliked by Cleveland for his decision to leave the way he did and head to Utah, he was a double-double machine in his two years in Cleveland and had a physique that made anyone think he was more of a 1980s pro wrestler than he was a then-modern day basketball player.
Boozer was impactful underneath, able to bang with the best of them for a long time. While he wasn’t the most dynamic scorer with regard to versatility, he didn’t need to be, as few players were as strong or physical as he was.