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Big fan of Cleveland basketball? Then check out this list of Cleveland Cavaliers centers with photos and seasons played with the team.&nbsp;It includes almost every center from throughout Cleveland Cavaliers history, including current centers and past ones. Featuring some of the&nbsp;<a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/greatest-centers-of-all-time?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">greatest NBA centers</a> of all time,&nbsp;the best Cavaliers&nbsp;Cs include Brad Daugherty, Zydrunas Ilgauskas, Roy Hinson, and Anderson Varejao.In the 2017-18 NBA season, the current Cleveland Cavs starting Cs and backup Cs are Tristan Thompson.&nbsp; Who are the best centers in Cleveland Cavaliers history? Here is every player who has ever held the position of Cleveland Cavaliers&nbsp;center.

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A list of the best Cleveland Cavaliers of all time. The Cleveland Cavaliers, much like the rest of the sports teams in Cleveland's history, are a snakebitten franchise. This isn't because they haven't had any good players, in fact the opposite holds true. LeBron James is one of the <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/best-2012-nba-players/sportsyeah">greatest players today</a> and one of the <a href="http://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/the-top-nba-players-of-all-time">greatest players of all time</a>. Say what you want about King James, the fact is that when he was with Cleveland, the team was one of the best in the league. James wasn't able to push Cleveland over the top though. With the best player of his generation, the Cavs only had one NBA Finals berth along with the several other brutal early exits, most notably in 2009 and 2010. Zydrunas Ilgauskas is another all time Cavs great that was one that team, but LeBron was the team's superstar player, and the guy that many teams dream of having.Many of the Cavs best players have been steady and been on multiple All Star teams. But their problem is that their greatest players have lost to teams that have had even better players. No one would question that the great Cavalier teams of the late 1980s and early 1990s didn't have talent. With Mark Price running the point and Brad Daugherty posting up down low, these Cavs teams had solid talent, but their best players couldn't get the team to the NBA Finals.This is a list of the best Cleveland Cavaliers of all time. If you see someone that is missing from this list, feel free to add him. Vote or rerank this list so it can accurately reflect who you think is the greatest Cavaliers player in team history.&nbsp;

Big fan of Cleveland basketball? Then check out this list of Cleveland Cavaliers small forwards with photos and seasons played with the team.&nbsp;It includes almost every small forward from throughout Cleveland Cavaliers history, including current small forwards and past ones. Featuring some of the&nbsp;greatest NBA small forwards of all time,&nbsp;the best Cavaliers&nbsp;SFs include Campy Russell, Bingo Smith, Lamond Murray, and Cliff Robinson.In the 2017-18 NBA season, the current Cleveland Cavs starting SFs and backup SFs are LeBron James, Jeff Green, and Cedi Osman.&nbsp; Who are the <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/top-10-small-forwards?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">best small forwards</a> in Cleveland Cavaliers history? Here is every player who has ever held the position of Cleveland Cavaliers&nbsp;small forward.

Big fan of Cleveland basketball? Then check out this list of Cleveland Cavaliers shooting guards with photos and seasons played with the team.&nbsp;It includes almost every shooting guard from throughout Cleveland Cavaliers history, including current shooting guards and past ones. Featuring some of the&nbsp;greatest NBA shooting guards of all time,&nbsp;the best Cavaliers&nbsp;SGs include Austin Carr, Ron Harper, Bingo Smith, and Wesley Person.In the 2017-18 NBA season, the current Cleveland Cavs starting SGs and backup SGs are Kyle Korver, JR Smith, Iman Shumpert, Dwyane Wade, and John Holland.&nbsp; Who are the best shooting guards in Cleveland Cavaliers history? Here is every player who has ever held the position of Cleveland Cavaliers&nbsp;shooting guard.

Big fan of Cleveland basketball? Then check out this list of Cleveland Cavaliers point guards with photos and seasons played with the team.&nbsp;It includes almost every point guard from throughout Cleveland Cavaliers history, including current point guards and past ones. Featuring some of the&nbsp;greatest <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/best-point-guards-currently-in-the-nba?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">NBA point guards</a> of all time,&nbsp;the best Cavaliers&nbsp;PGs include Kyrie Irving, Foots Walker, Terrell Brandon, and Mark Price.In the 2017-18 NBA season, the current Cleveland Cavaliers starting PGs and backup PGs are Jose Calderon, Derrick Rose, Isaiah Thomas, and London Perrantes.&nbsp;Who are the <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/greatest-point-guards-in-nba-history?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">best point guards</a> in Cleveland Cavaliers history? Here is every player who has ever held the position of Cleveland Cavaliers&nbsp;point guard.

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In their time as an NBA franchise, the Cleveland Cavaliers have gone through many different head coaches, all with different personalities and coaching styles. With that said, who is the best Cleveland Cavaliers coach of all time? We want to hear your thoughts, which is why we created this poll of the top Cleveland Cavaliers coaches of all time. Bill Fitch was the Cavaliers first head coach and coached the team for nine seasons. Fitch has won more regular season games, 738, than any other coach in team history.&nbsp;Chuck Daly is widely regarded to be one of the best head coaches of all time. In 2008 NBA.com named Daly one of the ten best coaches in the history of the game (Fitch was also on that list). If you love basketball and the Cleveland Cavaliers, then help us decide who the best Cleveland Cavaliers coach is by voting up your top picks. You don't have to vote for the winningest Cleveland Cavaliers coach, but it's hard to argue against solid numbers.

Cleveland Cavaliers first-round draft picks have shaped the franchise and been primarily responsible for the only championship in team history. It helps to have drafted one of <a href="https://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/the-top-nba-players-of-all-time" target="_blank">the best basketball players of all time</a>, LeBron James, but players like Kyrie Irving and Tristan Thompson also helped make the franchise what it is.

Not every Cavaliers draft pick has been a hit, though, with players like Anthony Bennett, DeSagana Diop, and Dajuan Wagner ranking among the <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/the-biggest-nba-busts-of-all-time/ranker-nba?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">biggest NBA draft busts</a> in history.

So which of these players had the greatest impact on the Cavaliers? The stats below reflect only the players&#39; time spent with Cleveland, and that&#39;s what you should base your vote on. Did this Cavaliers&nbsp;first-round draft pick help the franchise improve?

These <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/best-cleveland-cavaliers-of-all-time/ranker-nba?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">Cleveland Cavaliers players</a> have all had their numbers retired. After making a big impact while playing for the team, players such as Nate Thurmond and Bingo Smith had their jerseys retired. But not every player in the NBA gets their jersey retired, it is an honor bestowed upon the best players of a franchise. Which of these athletes are the greatest Cleveland Cavaliers players? This list is only for Cleveland Cavaliers players with retired jerseys. Coaches and managers have had their numbers retired as well but we&#39;re here to determine the best Cleveland Cavaliers players that have had their number retired for all time.

Although these are undoubtedly great players, not all of them have been voted into the Basketball Hall of Fame despite having their numbers honored. The Cleveland Cavaliers players that have been elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame are noted below. Vote up the Cleveland Cavaliers players with retired numbers that you think made the biggest contribution to the team.

Big fan of Cleveland basketball? Then check out this list of Cleveland Cavaliers power forwards with photos and seasons played with the team.&nbsp;It includes almost every power forward from throughout Cleveland Cavaliers history, including current power forwards and past ones. Featuring some of the&nbsp;greatest NBA power forwards of all time,&nbsp;the best Cavaliers&nbsp;PFs include Larry Nance, Tyrone Hill, Kenny Carr, and John Williams.In the 2017-18 NBA season, the current Cleveland Cavaliers starting PFs and backup PFs are Jae Crowder, Jeff Green, and Channing Frye.&nbsp; Who are the <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/the-greatest-power-forwards-in-nba-history?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">best power forwards</a> in Cleveland Cavaliers history? Here is every player who has ever held the position of Cleveland Cavaliers&nbsp;power forward.

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Spencer Hawes

Spencer Mason Hawes (born April 28, 1988) is an American professional basketball player for the South Bay Lakers of the NBA G League. He was selected by the Sacramento Kings in the 2007 NBA draft and is the nephew of Steve Hawes, a retired NBA player.

Luol Deng

Luol Ajou Deng (born 16 April 1985) is a British professional basketball player who last played for Minnesota Timberwolves of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He is a two-time NBA All-Star and was named to the NBA All-Defensive Second Team in 2012. Born in what is now South Sudan, Deng fled the country with his family as a child, eventually settling in the United Kingdom. He became a British citizen in 2006, and has played for the Great Britain national team.
After playing college basketball for the Duke Blue Devils, Deng was selected by the Chicago Bulls in the first round of the 2004 NBA draft with the seventh overall pick. He was named to the NBA All-Rookie First Team as a 19-year-old in 2005. The small forward was an All-Star with the Bulls in 2012 and 2013 before splitting the 2013–14 season with the Cleveland Cavaliers. After just half a season with Cleveland, Deng joined the Miami Heat for 2014–15. He played two seasons for the Heat before signing with the Lakers in 2016.

Kyle Korver

Kyle Elliot Korver (born March 17, 1981) is an American professional basketball player for the Milwaukee Bucks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Creighton Bluejays and was drafted in the second round of the 2003 NBA draft by the New Jersey Nets. He was immediately traded to the Philadelphia 76ers. After four and a half seasons in Philadelphia, he was traded to the Utah Jazz. During his first stint with the Jazz, in 2009–10, Korver shot 53.6 percent from three-point range, which set an NBA single-season three-point field goal accuracy record. In 2010, he joined the Chicago Bulls. In 2012, he was traded to the Atlanta Hawks, where in 2015, he was named NBA All-Star. In 2017, he was traded to the Cleveland Cavaliers, where he was a member of back-to-back Finals teams. In 2018, he was traded back to the Jazz. In 2019, he signed with the Milwaukee Bucks.

Marreese Speights

Marreese Akeem Speights (born August 4, 1987) is an American professional basketball player for the Guangzhou Long-Lions of the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA). He played college basketball for the University of Florida, where he was a freshman member of the Florida Gators' NCAA national championship team in 2007. The Philadelphia 76ers selected him with the 16th overall pick in the 2008 NBA draft.

Clarence Weatherspoon

Clarence Weatherspoon, Sr. (born September 8, 1970) is a former American professional basketball player in the NBA born in Crawford, Mississippi.
At the University of Southern Mississippi, Weatherspoon was a three-time Metro Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year, the only player in conference history to achieve the feat three times.  He was selected  by the Philadelphia 76ers as the ninth pick in the 1992 NBA draft. He played for the 76ers, the Golden State Warriors, the Miami Heat, the Cleveland Cavaliers, the New York Knicks and the Houston Rockets, averaging 11.5 points per game throughout his career.At six-foot-seven-inches and 250 pounds (201 cm, 113 kg), he was nicknamed "Baby Barkley" early during his career due to a similar aggressive playing style attributed to fellow short-statured NBA power forward and former 76er, Charles Barkley.
He participated in the 1993 Slam Dunk contest, finishing second to Harold Miner with an overall score of 92.

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