Last year the Chicago Bulls were knocked out of the NBA Playoffs in the first round, but there seven game series with the Boston Celtics might of been the highlight of the entire postseason. This year head coach Vinny Del Negro has a much more difficult task ahead of him playing the #1 seed Cleveland Cavilers. Lebron James is probably the last player you want to face in the NBA in the playoffs. The Bulls were able to defeat the Cavs with Lebron early on in the season in a low scoring game in November 86-85. Lebron told the media he’s been thinking about game 1 of round 1 of this year’s NBA playoffs since losing to the Orlando Magic in last year’s Eastern Conference Finals. The return of Joakim Noah to the Bulls lineup helped Del Negro’s team finish the season going 7-3 in the last ten games. Derrick Rose can take over games himself, but he needs Noah to perform at his best if the Bulls want any chance of giving Lebron and the Cavs a fight. Game one tips off from Cleveland on Saturday at 3PM ET on ABC.

The super performer of the Cleveland Cavaliers team, LeBron James, will be seen in the front covers of the April issue of the very famous Vogue magazine and he joins a couple of elite Hollywood personalities, George Clooney and Richard Gere as the only men to don the front cover of the 116 year old fashion magazine. LeBron will be seen sporting a tank top, sneakers and shorts that are a collection of his own Nike sports clothing line. He will be seen on the front cover in screaming mode while dribbling a basketball and his other arm will be around supermodel Giseli Bundchen.

The cover photo of LeBron James was shot in January by ace photographer Annie Leibovitz in Akron, Ohio, the hometown of the famous basketball player. The Vogue magazine spokesperson, Patrick said that LeBron is an amazing sports personality and nobody could be more fashionable than James and Gisele. James is accustomed to being on the cover of many sports magazines and his first appearance on a sports magazine was in the year 2002 when he was spotted on the front cover of the Sports Illustrated magazine at the age of 17 years. He will be one of the 11 sports personalities to be appearing on the cover of the 10th anniversary issue of ESPN, the magazine.

The 10,000 to 12,000 odd Cleveland fans, who had fought through snow and bitter cold to get to the stadium, were thrilled with joy to watch their team make a clean sweep of the Indiana Pacers with a 103-95 victory last Saturday. Cavalier’s LeBron James who scored 38 points in the game said that he wanted to make sure that the efforts taken by the fans to get to watch the game must not go waste and thanked for the fans to come and watch the game even at times of adverse weather conditions. The winter snow was so bad in Cleveland that it covered the cars unto the doors.

Cleveland Cavaliers maintained their home winning streak as they have won their fifth consecutive game on home soil. The main players for the Cavaliers were West who scored 14 points, Wally with 11 points, Joe Smith with 12 points, Varejao with 15 points as well as 16 rebounds and of course James, the top scorer with 38 points. James acknowledged that he was in top of his game on Saturday and wanted to be aggressive throughout the game. Cavaliers continued their domination over the Pacers as they have won 10 of their last 11 meetings.

The Boston Celtics overcame with a slow start. The Cleveland Cavaliers were not able to overcome the absence of LeBron James. With the National Baseball Association scoring leader missing his 2nd straight match because of a sprained finger, the Celtics beat the Cavaliers 80-70 on yesterday. On Thursday, the Celtics crushed the Knicks 104-59. On Tuesday night, Cleveland handed Boston one of their 2 losses of the season, 109-104 in overtime at Cleveland.

LeBron James from the Cleveland Cavaliers, scored thirty-eight points, including eleven in overtime, and had thirteen assists to lead the team past the Boston Celtics 109-104. Kobe Bryant, from the Los Angeles Lakers, had thirty-five points to help LA beat the Seattle SuperSonics 106-99. Mike Dunleavy, from the Indiana Pacers, scored thirty points to propel the team over the Denver Nuggets 112-110

Terry scored a game-high twenty-four points off the bench as the Mavericks defeated the Cavaliers 92-74 yesterday night in the regular-season opener for the two teams. Stackhouse scored seventeen points and Nowitzki had fifteen points, 8 rebounds and 6 assists as Dallas won a matchup between teams that lost the past 2 NBA Finals. Ilgauskas had seventeen points and eighteen rebounds for Cleveland, who were swept by San Antonio in June’s National Basketball Association title series.