The Cavaliers really spit the bit last night, eh?

(In related playoff news, someone absolutely should’ve invoked the mercy rule in the Chicago Blackhawks 5-1 elimination drubbing of the Vancouver Canuckleheads.)

Full disclosure: I didn’t see the whole Celts-Cavs Game 5, but every time I checked in, Cleveland looked more like Leaveland.

That would apply to the whole team, but especially to LeBron (3 for 14 from the field) James, who likely has played his last game in Burn On Big Rivertown.

New York Times take:

If this was goodbye, it lacked any sentiment, affinity or warmth. If LeBron James is destined to leave the Cleveland Cavaliers, he will have departed in a fog of disappointment, to a shocking chorus of boos.

But to a welcoming chorus of huzzahs elsewhere, as this week’s New York magazine cover attests:

Then again, given his – maybe – (dying) swan song in Cleveland, you gotta wonder whether the King James Bubble has burst.