Days after seeing Cleveland face elimination, debate on why Cavaliers’ coach Lue benched the Cavs’ third best player Kyle Korver most of Game 5 where Boston took a 96-83 win and went ahead, 3-2, in their best-of-seven NBA Eastern Conference finals continued.

The victory, which many least expected because of the way he Cavs annihilated the Celtics in Games 3 and 4 to tie the series in their own house following Boston’s twin triumphs at the Garden, pushed LeBron James and his teammates on the brink

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