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NBA: Evan Mobley on Jarrett Allen’s showing in Game 7: “He seemed like he was locked in from the jump. He just kept rebounding the ball every single chance he got.” ALLEN: First player since Nikola Jokić in 2020 to total 20+ PTS, 15+ REB, and 3+ BLK in a Game 7 👀
Danny Cunningham: #Cavs take down the Raptors 114-102. Jarrett Allen picked a good time to have the best playoff game of his career. He had 22 points and 19 rebounds. Mitchell had 22, Harden had 18 and Cleveland's dominant 2nd half sends them to the 2nd round. Game 1 is in Detroit on Tuesday.
ESPN Insights: Jarrett Allen is the second Cavaliers player in postseason history with 20+ PTS and 15+ REB in Game 7 He joins LeBron James on May 27, 2018 vs. the Celtics in the Eastern Conference finals.
Underdog NBA: Draymond Green on Jarrett Allen's postseason play: "Jarrett Allen seems to get into these playoffs and get really, really, really soft." "He gets into the playoffs and turns into a completely different player. And not for the better."
Starting center Jarrett Allen has been able to practice two straight days without limitation and Cavs coach Kenny Atkinson says there are no restrictions. But Allen admitted Thursday — about 48 hours before Game 1 — that his problematic right knee is still not full strength. “A little pain,” Allen said following practice. “It’s not going to go away immediately. That’s something that’s going to have to linger for a while. It’s enough where I can play at a high level, I believe.”
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“When the adrenaline starts going, the pain goes away,” Allen said. “You can say that for everybody. When you’re scoring the ball, when the crowd’s yelling, things start to stop hurting, things start to just go from your mind and you’re so focused on the next play.”
Danny Cunningham: #Cavs list Donovan Mitchell, Jarrett Allen, and Sam Merrill all as out tomorrow against the Atlanta Hawks. Thomas Bryant (calf strain) is also out. Jaylon Tyson (left great toe bone bruise) is questionable.
“I don’t know,” Allen replied to cleveland.com when asked. “It’s just the truthful answer to that. Hopefully it gets better. I’ve gone through tendonitis all of my career. That’s just a big man’s thing you have to deal with. I think it is going to get better. We have been doing so much to make it get better — and it has — but I can’t answer that question.”
“It just is what it is,” Atkinson said when asked about Allen being limited. “Can’t rush this thing. I have to really think big picture here. We have to think big picture. Have him ready to be at peak performance for the playoffs. We need to get that feedback from him. Play. Then get feedback. Play. Then get feedback. The direction wasn’t just let him jump in and start playing his normal minutes. That’s not it. Building towards, hopefully, his normal stint. “We’re not there yet.”
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“Definitely still sore out there. Definitely not 100 percent,” Allen admitted to cleveland.com following Tuesday’s 127-113 loss to the Los Angeles Lakers. “I’m not able to put a lot of pressure on my knee sometimes. Jumping and landing on the knee still hurts. Not as much as before, when I first got hurt, but still managing it and definitely still struggling with it.”
Brian Windhorst: LeBron James is only going to Cleveland if he's willing to play for the minimum, because the Cavs don't have cap space and um they're going to be in either in the second apron or the first apron. If you're in either, you're not going to have a full mid-level exception. And the idea that you could sign and trade for him, like let's say the Lakers say, "All right, LeBron, if you want to go in Cleveland, we'll sign and trade you for Jarrett Allen. Lakers need a center." It's not the craziest concept ever. The Cavs aren't allowed to do that trade. If you're in the first or second apron, you can't receive a player in a signing trade… Dave McMenamin: …Where they are right now. They'd have to make subsequent moves to get out of that.
Jarrett Allen needs your help. The Cleveland Cavaliers center — his perfectly curated afro kept neat inside a headband, looking like a blast from basketball’s past — came into the NBA in 2017 after being drafted by the Brooklyn Nets. With him, Allen brought the Kyrie 3, the third installment of Kyrie Irving’s signature Nike shoe released in 2016. The specific pair Allen wears is black and white. Clean. Professional. The shoes and Allen have never separated. It’s a marriage rooted in, as Allen says, comfort and stubbornness. To this day, 620 career games later, including his lone All-Star appearance in 2022, you’ve never seen Allen without those Kyrie 3s, officially named “Nike Kyrie 3 TB Black White.” The kicks are part of his work attire, just like the afro and headband.
However, a divorce might come soon, but not because Allen wants something different. “I’m on my last pair,” Allen, with sadness in his voice, told The Athletic. “As I find them online, I buy them as soon as I can, but I haven’t found a new pair in the last 1 1/2 years. So, the run might be over with those.”
