Cavs continue to hum

Watching from my window as the snow continues to fall ...

The Cavaliers sleepwalked through a lot of that game last night against the Kings, but two guys who didn't sleepwalk at all were (of course) LeBron James and Mo Williams. Mo scored 43, which is the most a LeBron teammate has ever scored; and they came within two Williams rebounds of being the third set of teammates since 1989 to each have a triple-double in the same NBA game. Mo was a huge addition to this team, and is the main reason why a team that struggled to stay above .500 last year now has the NBA's best record. The All-Star reserves are about to be announced, and I admit I haven't looked at the stats of players Williams might be up against for one of those spots, but it sure seems to me like he deserves to go. It's hard to believe all Danny Ferry gave up for him was Joe Smith and Damon Jones.

The Cavs are now 21-0 at home, the fifth team in NBA history to stay undefeated after more than half the season's home schedule. Of the other four, only the '95-96 Bulls (who started an NBA-record 37-0 at home) went on to win the title. Interestingly, the second-longest season-starting home winning streak belonged to another team in the same conference, the same year. Shaquille O'Neal's Magic, who lost to those Bulls in the Eastern Conference Finals, went 36-0 before losing their first home game in '95-96, a year after starting 21-0 at home and losing in the NBA Finals. The other team to start 21-0 at home was the '77-78 Trail Blazers, who won their first 26 home games and went on to lose in the Western Conference Finals. We are students of sporting history here at Of Fair Hooker.

As mentioned here earlier this week, Zydrunas Ilgauskas hopes to return tomorrow night in Orlando. Whether he makes it back for that marquee matchup or not, he'll be playing again soon. Delonte West will take a little longer, but should be back around mid- to late February. If this team can stay healthy after that, I'm really not sure anybody can stop them.