3) Cleveland CavaliersStrengths The defending champions still have LeBron James, Kyrie Irving and Kevin Love. Chances of winning They’re probably the only Eastern Conference team with a legitimate shot at the championship. t will be fascinating to see how long he can ‘maintain the rage’,” says Penfold, “what you also find is that players develop a fitness capacity over each season, so that the effort required to get through a season becomes less and less as they become accustomed to the physical demands needed and their body develops both an adaptation and resilience to these stresses. Obama said he was “a great friend of mine, but more importantly he was also a great friend to the city of Pittsburgh”.