Max Strus has gone viral for sending an unlucky message to the Cleveland Cavaliers group chat shortly earlier than they have been eradicated from the postseason.
Cavaliers and Max Strus eradicated
The Cleveland Cavaliers didn’t final lengthy within the NBA playoffs after they went 3-1 right down to the Indiana Pacers and no comeback was staged in Cleveland, as Indiana superior in 5 video games following one other win on the highway Tuesday evening.
The primary seed within the East missed essential photographs down the stretch because the Pacers triggered an upset for the second 12 months working to advance to the Convention Finals.
Max Strus went viral shortly after the loss, when it was revealed that the 29-year-old messaged the Cavaliers group chat with some motivation simply earlier than their last recreation of the 12 months.
Strus reportedly despatched a message to the staff’s group chat forward of recreation 5, saying: “Should you don’t imagine, then don’t present up for work.”
Max Strus despatched a bunch textual content message to his Cavs teammates earlier than recreation 5:
“Should you don’t imagine, don’t present up for work.”
Max Strus went 0/9 and the Cavs have been ELIMINATED
😭😭😭
— Hater Report (@HaterReport_) Could 14, 2025
Sadly for the Cavaliers it was Strus who didn’t present up for work, with the guard going scoreless in his last recreation of the season.
Strus went 0/9 from the sector and 0/6 from past the arc on Tuesday evening regardless of enjoying 26 minutes.
Sadly for Strus there can be no shot at redemption this 12 months for the Cavaliers and as a substitute, he was laughed at by virtually everybody who noticed his feedback earlier than the sport.
Cavaliers ‘let town down’
Donovan Mitchell was fast to apologise to town of Cleveland following the Cavs elimination however vowed that he and his teammates can be again subsequent 12 months.
“That power, that crowd. We have been 0-3 at house, let town down. This place is particular. This place is absolutely particular and we didn’t get it completed.”
“We’ve had lots of positives,” Mitchell mentioned of his staff. “However we didn’t capitalize. Now we’ve obtained to make use of this motivation. All people’s going to jot down us off… we’ll be again.”
Mitchell himself was as sensible as ever in the course of the postseason, averaging 29.6 factors via the playoffs together with 35 within the Cavaliers final stand over Indiana.