INDEPENDENCE, Ohio — Brutal and honest in his self-assessment, leveled himself and his teammates after the last brief playoff run by suggesting they all had wilted under the pressure. “Even for me, the lights were brighter than expected,” Allen infamously said after the Cavs were summarily dismissed by the in five games of a first-round series. Advertisement Nearly a year later, after a regular season in which the Cavs were measured largely in comparison to that singular statement, they are... Read this story
