The Warriors caught LeBron by surprise in 2015<\/a>, and then dominated with Kevin Durant<\/a> in 2017 and 2018 to win three championships. But no team in the East had an answer for the Cavs. <\/p>\n The Boston Celtics and Toronto Raptors lost multiple series against Cleveland with James. The Indiana Pacers<\/a>, who are currently in the NBA Finals, also lost a heartbreaker to them.<\/p>\n In 2018, Indiana faced off against the Cavs in the first round. They lost in Game 7, and the star of that team recently spoke out about his emotions in the aftermath. <\/p>\n Tyrese Haliburton<\/a> is the main man in Indiana now, but right after Paul George\u2019s departure, that was Victor Oladipo<\/a>. He led the team against the King and Cleveland in 2018. <\/p>\n Despite a great series, Oladipo couldn\u2019t help Indy make it over the hump. They lost in Game 7 in the first round, and he recently spoke about how he felt following the game. <\/p>\n \u201cI cried so hard because, when you say, like, when it\u2019s when it\u2019s over in the playoffs, that\u2019s when you rest and you realize how exhausted you are,\u201d Oladipo said. <\/p>\n \u201cYou never tell yourself you\u2019re exhausted until you\u2019re like, OK, it\u2019s over. And I remember being so exhausted emotionally that I just broke down because it was like, there\u2019s no way they weren\u2019t better than us. <\/p>\n \u201cThat\u2019s what I truly, truly felt in my heart. And I felt like that in game seven.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Victor Oladipo was phenomenal during the Pacers-Cavaliers first-round matchup<\/p>\n The Pacers took on the Cavaliers in the Eastern Conference Semifinals this season, but the team easily won in five. Oladipo didn\u2019t have the same experience. <\/p>\n The star guard was excellent in that series. Oladipo averaged 22.7 points, 8.3 rebounds, and 6.0 assists in 7 games. The Cavaliers had no answer for him. <\/p>\n His Game 6 performance stands out the most; the 2-time All-Star recorded a 28-point triple-double to force a Game 7. <\/p>\n While it\u2019s surprising to hear about NBA stars crying, it\u2019s a natural reaction for any star who was trying to make it out of the Eastern Conference during LeBron\u2019s second stint with the franchise. <\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LeBron James and the Cavaliers consistently beat many great Eastern Conference teams in the playoffs. One former NBA…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72178,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3772],"tags":[7,306,305,193,3846,1409,126,185,6,8942],"class_list":{"0":"post-72177","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cleveland-cavaliers","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-cavaliers","10":"tag-cleveland","11":"tag-cleveland-cavaliers","12":"tag-clevelandcavaliers","13":"tag-eastern-conference","14":"tag-indiana-pacers","15":"tag-lebron-james","16":"tag-nba","17":"tag-victor-oladipo"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114614832022992061","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Cleveland](\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/GettyImages-888595966-986x627.jpg\")
Photo by Andy Lyons\/Getty ImagesVictor Oladipo says Cavaliers loss left him \u2019emotionally exhausted\u2019<\/p>\n