Cleveland Cavaliers. Outta here

As the song goes --

Na, na, na, na,
Na, na, na, na,
Hey-ey-ey good-bye.

The Peter Principle has finally caught up to Lebron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers.

Waltzing through the likes of the mediocre Indiana Pacers, the ever playoff choking Toronto Raptors, and being taken to seven games against a Boston Celtics team without their two beat players is one thing.

But the Golden State Warriors are a whole different breed of animal.

The chances of Cleveland rallying from an 0-3 NBA Final deficit against THOSE guys?

It's theoretically possible, if at least a couple of their starters suffer major injuries. Or the team comes down with a nasty flu bug/food poisoning/the black plague/mass hysteria, take your pick, that lays them up for a week or two. Or their team plane takes a serious wrong turn and somehow winds up out of fuel in Antarctica. Or an overzealous ICE team makes a horrific mistake and deports them all to, say, Afghanistan. And we can't totally rule out the possibility of the Warriors spontaneously combusting en-masse due to the sheer excitement of it all. But the odds are very long that any of those scenarios would happen.

Assuming they make it to the arena in one piece, Golden State is now on cruise control. It would surprise very few if they finished off the sweep in Game Four.

And even if not, the Cavs chances of winning this series now are about as good as Hillary getting a recount and belatedly becoming President. I would't exactly count on it.

In other words, color the Cleveland Cavaliers gone.

Winning four in a row, with two of them in Oakland? Not a chance.

Then two questions will arise.

Will we see another political circus as to whether the Dubs get invited to the White House? Probably.

More importantly, what will Lebron James do next? Though he has a year left in his contract, he can opt out of it -- basically become a free agent. And he just might. The current Cleveland team has little hope of contending for a championship in the future. With the rise of Boston, particularly when they get Gordon Hayward and Kyrie Irving back next year -- and young Philly's coming --  the Cavs will be second class citizens in the East.

We can remember Lebron almost single-handedly leading the Cavs to the brink of championships in his first go-round with Cleveland, only to fall short. We can also remember how Cavs fans burned his jersies went he "took his talents" to Miami. And how they forgot about all that and gave him a hero's welcome when he returned home again, especially capturing a title.

If he leaves -- again -- a definite possibility -- will we see Jersey Burning, the sequel? Probably.

But where could he go to win another title that he'd fit in? To the hated Celtics? Seems unlikely, and they might not want him anyway, given the massive salary cap hit he'd bring along with him.

Houston? That would probably put the Rockets over the top, but a chemistry issue might rear its ugly head. Would the likes of likely NBA MVP James Harden, who runs the offense, take a back seat to Lebron having the ball so much? And the Rockets have ZERO cap space as it is. How could they make that work?

The Lakers? Even with him, the glitzy boys team wouldn't nearly be good enough to challenge either the Rockets or the Warriors.

It might just be that Lebron James winds up staying in Cleveland, whether he likes it or not. The lone exception would seem to be the 76ers. They've got a young team, cap space, and plopping James onto that squad would most certainly cause a dynamic shift in the Eastern Conference. Much to the chagrin of the Celtics.

We shall see in the next few months.

But for now, you can pretty much pencil in -- in fact, put it in indelible ink --  the Golden State Warriors as repeat NBA champions.

Nobody's going to knock those guys off four in a row.

Forget that.

It's over.