Charles Oakley: 'Cavaliers are playing JV teams right now'

Charles Oakley doesn't think much of the Eastern Conference, aside from his hometown club.

The Cleveland Cavaliers, who currently sport a 10-0 record, have rolled all three opponents set before them in their bid for a second-straight Finals appearance. That's left Oakley unimpressed with how top-heavy the East is at the moment.

"The Cavaliers are playing JV teams right now," Oakley said Saturday on Sirius XM Radio.

First up were the plucky Detroit Pistons who put up a fight in their first three games before the Cavaliers took over. Then came the Atlanta Hawks who were drowned in a record-breaking bucketload of threes - they put up a fight, but they too were swept.

Finally there are the Raptors, who once employed Oakley.

Smarting from the bruises of two grueling seven-game series victories, the Raptors have been unable to muster any fight at all. A 19-point blowout in Game 2 followed on the heels of a 31-point loss in Game 1.

Should they manage to complete a third sweep, Cleveland would enter the championship round with the longest win streak in playoff history. But there's two ways to view that: Is the East that bad, or are the Cavaliers that good?