The NBA has had its fair share of terrible owners, but only one has ever had a rule named after them — Ted Stepien of the Cavaliers. Soon after Ted Stepien purchased the Cleveland Cavaliers in 1980, ...

The NBA has had its fair share of infamous owners over the years, but only one has earned a lasting legacy so bizarre that it became synonymous with mismanagement. That would be none other Ted Stepien ...

Long before the LeBron James era brought glory to Northeast Ohio, the Cleveland Cavaliers endured a chaotic period defined by the disastrous ownership of advertising tycoon Ted Stepien. From 1980 to ...

Before LeBron James put the Cleveland Cavaliers on the global basketball map, the franchise had an up-and-down history marked by years of being a total laughingstock. The 1980 to 1983 seasons were ...

Ted Stepien, a former owner of the Cleveland Cavaliers whose propensity for trading away draft picks resulted in an NBA rule change, died Monday at his home in Willoughby Hills, Ohio. He was 82. The ...

In the summer of 1980, a reporter for the Akron Beacon Journal called Ted Stepien, the advertising magnate who’d just spent $2 million to buy a controlling share of the Cleveland Cavaliers, because he ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Do you have a Cavs question that you'd like to have answered in Hey, Joe? Submit it here or tweet him @joevardon. Hey, Joe: How does the Portland first-round swap work under the ...

The single most influential figure involved in the 2022 NBA trade deadline died over 14 years before the season began. Ted Stepien owned the Cleveland Cavaliers for roughly three years in the 1980s.

N THE DAY LeBron James was born, the Cavaliers played in Atlanta -- and lost. The score was 109-98 as their record fell to 9-22. As LeBron James was coming into the world on December 30, 1984, born to ...

Theodore "Ted" Stepien, former owner of the Cleveland Cavaliers, died this morning in his Willoughby Hills home at age 82, according to his daughter Carol. Stepien bought the Cavaliers, Cleveland's ...