LeBron James #23 of the Cleveland Cavaliers shoots against DeMarre Carroll #5 of the Atlanta Hawks in Game Two of the Eastern Conference Finals. The Cavaliers dominated the Hawks in a 94-82 win. Nathaniel S. Butler/NBAE via Getty Images
Pure domination. Those are the words that can be used to describe the performance of LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers in their 94-82 win over the Atlanta Hawks Friday night at Philips Arena to take a 2-0 lead in the Eastern Conference Finals.
The conference finals are all set up and chalk has held up as the top two seeds in each conference have survived and advanced to the NBA’s Final Four. Let’s take a look at the Eastern Conference Finals match-up with the Cleveland Cavaliers and the Atlanta Hawks.
Atlanta Hawks center Al Horford (15) dunks the ball for two of his 18 points in front of Washington Wizards guard Bradley Beal (3) and center Marcin Gortat, from Poland, right. The Hawks won Game 4 106-101 to tie the best of seven Eastern Conference semifinal series at two games apiece. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
With their Game 4 win last night, the Atlanta Hawks went from looking like a No. 4 or 5 seed for these playoffs, to looking more like the No. 1 seed they earned during the regular season.
NBA.com/Cavaliers LeBron James brought back his headband and his aggressiveness to lead Cleveland to a 106-91 win over the Chicago Bulls to even the Eastern Conference Semifinal Series at one game apiece.
LeBron James’ headband has made an appearance in the Cavs’ 2015 playoff run. After the much talked about absence of James’ headband throughout the playoffs, he decided to make a game-time decision, and sport his signature headband. It was a change that brought upon an even more aggressive LeBron in leading the Cavs to a 106-91 Game 2 win to even the series with the Chicago Bulls at one game apiece.