CLEVELAND (AP) — Tyronn Lue is back around the Cavaliers.Cleveland's coach, who has been away from the team for medical reasons, attended Friday night's game against New Orleans. Lue is remaining off the floor, however, and not sitting on the bench. A team spokesman said Lue will likely watch the game from his office.Lue announced he was leaving the club on March 19, saying he experienced chest pains and "other troubling symptoms" this season. The 40-year-old missed two games earlier in the year with illness.Lue, who took over the Cavs midway through the 2016 season and guided them to an NBA championship, last coached in a game on March 17 in Chicago. But after the first half, he remained in the locker room and did not return.Associate head coach Larry Drew has been coaching the Cavaliers in Lue's absence and led them to a 5-1 record.Drew had lunch with Lue on Thursday and said the coach's condition — and mood — have improved."Ty was Ty," said Drew, who reported Lue at a healthy salad.... [More]

INDEPENDENCE, Ohio (AP) — Tyronn Lue is ready to take a step toward rejoining the Cavaliers.Cleveland's coach, who has taken a medical absence from the team, is expected to attend Friday night's game against New Orleans as an observer. Lue will not sit on the bench, but he will be inside Quicken Loans Arena after missing two weeks.Lue said he experienced chest pains and "other troubling symptoms" when the 40-year-old announced he was stepping away from the team on March 19 to address his health. He missed two games earlier in the year with illness.Lue, who took over the Cavs midway through the 2016 season and guided them to an NBA championship, last coached in a game on March 17 in Chicago. But after the first half, he remained in the locker room for the rest of the game.Associate head coach Larry Drew has been coaching the Cavaliers in Lue's absence and led them to a 5-1 record.It's still not clear when Lue will return to the team in a full capacity, but he could be back in the near future.Lue's... [More]

INDEPENDENCE, Ohio (AP) — Cleveland Cavaliers coach Tyronn Lue is expected to attend the team's game against New Orleans as an observer.Lue won't sit on the bench when the Cavaliers host the Pelicans on Friday night.Lue, who did not attend the team's morning shootaround, has been on medical leave and missed the past six games. The 40-year-old stepped away from the team last week, saying he had been suffering from chest pains and insomnia this season.Lue last coached on March 17, when he left a game in Chicago at halftime.Associate head coach Larry Drew has been coaching the Cavaliers in Lue's absence.Kevin Love could return against the Pelicans after missing one game with a concussion.Kyle Korver has rejoined the team following his brother's funeral but won't play because of a sore right foot.___More AP NBA: www.apnews.com/tags/NBAbasketball

MIAMI (AP) — The Cleveland Cavaliers will be without coach Tyronn Lue and guard Kyle Korver for Tuesday's game in Miami, and it remains unclear when either will return.Lue announced on March 19 that he was taking a leave to deal with health-related matters. Korver has been excused by the team following the death of his brother, whose funeral was in the family's native Iowa on Monday.The Cavs visit Charlotte on Wednesday.Tuesday's game will be the sixth that Lue misses in full this season, including one from December. The Cavs enter Tuesday 5-0 in the games that Lue has missed, not including a 1-1 mark in a pair of contests where he missed the second halves because of illness.

PELLA, Iowa (AP) — The Cleveland Cavaliers' Kyle Korver joined his two remaining brothers in comforting their parents during a funeral for their youngest brother.Twenty-seven-year-old Kirk Korver died March 20 of a sudden illness.The Des Moines Register reports that Kyle Korver stood Monday at a church in Pella, Iowa, with his brothers Klayton and Kaleb and told their parents that life without Kirk will be different but "You will always have four sons."All four played basketball at the collegiate level or above: Kyle and Kaleb at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska, Klayton at Drake in Des Moines, Iowa, and Kirk at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.Cavs spokesman B.J. Evans says Kyle Korver won't be with the team for a game Tuesday night against the Heat in Miami.

PELLA, Iowa (AP) — The Cleveland Cavaliers' Kyle Korver joined his two remaining brothers in comforting their parents during a funeral for their youngest brother.Twenty-seven-year-old Kirk Korver died March 20 of a sudden illness.The Des Moines Register reports that Kyle Korver stood Monday at a church in Pella, Iowa, with his brothers Klayton and Kaleb and told their parents that life without Kirk will be different but "You will always have four sons."All four played basketball at the collegiate level or above: Kyle and Kaleb at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska, Klayton at Drake in Des Moines, Iowa, and Kirk at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.It's unclear whether Kyle Korver will rejoin the team for a game Tuesday night against the Heat in Miami. Cavaliers' officials didn't immediately return messages from The Associated Press.

CLEVELAND (AP) — The Cavaliers are closer to being at full strength.Forwards Larry Nance Jr., Tristan Thompson, and Rodney Hood all returned from injuries on Friday night as Cleveland, which has been riddled with injuries all season, hosted the Phoenix Suns. Acting coach Larry Drew said none of the players will start and all will be on minutes' restrictions.Drew, who is filling in while coach Tyronn Lue is on leave to address his own health, plans to keep his starting lineup intact and ease the returning players into the rotation.LeBron James, Jose Calderon, George Hill, Jeff Green and Kevin Love were scheduled to started against Phoenix, which has lost nine in a row. Drew said he and Lue will talk again Saturday about lineup changes for the upcoming trip to Brooklyn, Miami and Charlotte."I really didn't want to disrupt the starting five that we have out there right now and those guys will be playing limited minutes, so I wanted to get them slowly back and acclimated to what we're doing,"... [More]

CLEVELAND (AP) — The drama has included turmoil and trades, head-scratching losses, infighting, injuries and illness.Cleveland's stormy season seems extracted from the script of a scandalous TV soap opera — "All My Cavaliers."But just when it looked as if LeBron James and this group of Cavaliers, some of whom have yet to play together, were about to implode with the postseason in sight, a startling win may have turned them around."I always say there is one game during the season that changes your team," acting coach Larry Drew said following Cleveland's 132-129 win over Toronto. "That game can be early, it can be midway, it can be late. There's always one game that kind of changes your team, the mindset."And I really believe tonight's game might have done that for us."With James on a mission to remind the Raptors of his magnificence, the short-handed Cavs, missing five rotational players and coach Tyronn Lue, rallied from a 15-point deficit in the second half Wednesday night to stun the... [More]

CLEVELAND (AP) — Cavaliers forward Kyle Korver has been excused from the team to be with family following the death of a younger brother.The team issued a statement late Tuesday night saying Korver's brother, Kirk, died earlier in the day."We extend our deepest condolences and heartfelt best to Kyle and his entire family as they go through this very difficult time," the Cavs said.Korver is expected to miss Wednesday's home game against Toronto.Korver, in his second season with Cleveland, left the Cavs last week after his 27-year-old brother became seriously ill in Iowa. He played in Monday night's home win over Milwaukee, scoring 12 points.Korver's personal situation comes one day after Cavs coach Tyronn Lue stepped away from the team for health reasons.The Cavs have also been dealing with an assortment of injuries as Rodney Hood, Tristan Thompson, Larry Nance Jr. and Cedi Osman have been sidelined.

CLEVELAND (AP) — Cavaliers forward Kyle Korver has been excused from the team to be with family following the death of a younger brother.The team issued a statement late Tuesday night saying Korver's brother, Kirk, died earlier in the day."We extend our deepest condolences and heartfelt best to Kyle and his entire family as they go through this very difficult time," the Cavs said.Korver is expected to miss Wednesday's home game against Toronto.Kyle Korver, who is in his second season with Cleveland, left the Cavs last week after his 27-year-old brother became seriously ill in Iowa. Korver played in Monday night's home win over Milwaukee, scoring 12 points.Korver's personal situation comes one day after Cavs coach Tyronn Lue stepped away from the team for health reasons. The Cavs have also been dealing with an assortment of injuries as Rodney Hood, Tristan Thompson, Larry Nance Jr. and Cedi Osman have been sidelined.

CLEVELAND (AP) — Cavaliers forward Kyle Korver has been excused from the team to be with family following the death of a younger brother.The team issued a statement late Tuesday night saying Korver's brother, Kirk, died earlier in the day."We extend our deepest condolences and heartfelt best to Kyle and his entire family as they go through this very difficult time," the Cavs said.Korver is expected to miss Wednesday's home game against Toronto.Kyle Korver, who is in his second season with Cleveland, left the Cavs last week after his 27-year-old brother became seriously ill in Iowa. Korver played in Monday night's home win over Milwaukee, scoring 12 points.Korver's personal situation comes one day after Cavs coach Tyronn Lue stepped away from the team for health reasons. The Cavs have also been dealing with an assortment of injuries as Rodney Hood, Tristan Thompson, Larry Nance Jr. and Cedi Osman have been sidelined.

Their season and NBA title hopes slipping away, the Cleveland Cavaliers vented during a team meeting on Monday in hopes of clearing the air.After losing 10 of 14, Cleveland's players voiced their concerns and displeasure before practice, a person familiar with the meeting told The Associated Press while the team was in San Antonio preparing for a game.There was "frustration all around" during the meeting, according to the person who spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity Tuesday because of the sensitive nature of the discussion. The person said there was a sense the session was "constructive" if the team is able to "move forward from it."Following an embarrassing 148-124 loss to Oklahoma City on Saturday, guards Dwyane Wade and Isaiah Thomas spoke about players needing to be more accountable and saying there was a lack of trust on defense. Forward Kyle Korver echoed those comments, adding it was time for players to look themselves in the mirror and ask what more each could do for the... [More]

INDEPENDENCE, Ohio (AP) — As LeBron James and some teammates practiced free throws at a nearby basket, coach Tyronn Lue addressed questions about the troubling state of the Cavaliers while sitting in a high-backed, cushioned chair.While he was cool, Lue's seat has warmed up.With the Cavs mired in a bewildering midseason slump and less than 24 hours after a historically embarrassing loss to Oklahoma City, Lue said he has no immediate plans to change his starting lineup or rotations. Cleveland fans may be panicking, Lue's not nervous.At least not publicly.The Cavs are just 4-10 since Dec. 19, and in the past two weeks they've lost by 28 at Minnesota, 34 at Toronto and 24 to the Thunder, who scored 148 points and tied a record for the most points allowed by Cleveland in a regulation game — a mark that went unmatched since 1972.It's a mess, and it's a mystery the way James and the Cavs have collapsed. They've slipped in the past, but this slide feels much more ominous than in the previous three... [More]

INDEPENDENCE, Ohio (AP) — Cavaliers coach Tyronn Lue isn't changing his starting lineup or rotations despite Cleveland's current troubling state.A day after the Cavs gave up 148 points — tying a franchise record that stood since 1972 — in an embarrassing loss to Oklahoma City, Lue said he's not making any major moves to snap his team from its mid-season doldrums.The Cavs have lost 10 of 14 and have been blown out three times in the past week.Lue decided not to show his players video on Sunday as the team practiced in advance of Tuesday's game in San Antonio. Lue explained his reasoning for not making any changes as the Cavs are the same team that won 13 straight and 18 of 19 earlier this season.Cavs forward Kyle Korver said the only way to fix things is "to look yourself in the mirror and say how can I help the team? It's really simple but it really is true."___More AP basketball: https://apnews.com/tag/NBAbasketball

Gregg Popovich was the coach nobody wanted.It's hard to fathom now, after five NBA championships as coach of the San Antonio Spurs and with him now alone in fifth place on the league's all-time victory list. But it's true — Popovich's decision to fire Bob Hill and make himself coach and general manager in December 1996 was horribly received at first, leaving even some of his own players baffled.The San Antonio Express-News took a poll after that season and found that 92 percent of Spurs fans wanted Popovich fired.As Popovich would suggest now (on politics, one of his favorite topics), sometimes voters get it wrong."The pressure is always there for any coach," Popovich said. "You've got to get the job done. If you don't, you're not there. If you do get it done, you get to stay."He said those words in 1997. He was right.Popovich now has 1,176 wins. He's 34 away from No. 4 Pat Riley, 45 shy of No. 3 Jerry Sloan, and should catch both next season. He would need 156 to catch No. 2 Lenny Wilkens,... [More]

F Kyle Korver scored 15 points in Thursday's win over the Bulls.

F Kyle Korver (19 points) drained six of Cleveland's season-high 20 3-pointers in a 123-114 win over Atlanta. "It's a tried and true formula," Atlanta coach Mike Budenholzer said. "You have a great player and you put 3-point shooting around him and it makes it tough. They had even more 3-point shooting tonight. LeBron (James) is obviously a great facilitator and a great passer (17 assists). They made the plays, not just him."

G Kyle Korver scored 11 points in Wednesday's 115-107 victory at Charlotte.

G Kyle Korver scored 13 off the bench Friday.

G Kyle Korver added 21 points for the Cavs Monday.