1994–95 Cleveland Cavaliers season

The 1994–95 NBA season was the 25th season for the Cleveland Cavaliers in the National Basketball Association. This was also the team's first season playing at the Gund Arena. During the off-season, the Cavaliers signed free agents Michael Cage, and Tony Campbell. However, before the regular season began, the team lost Brad Daugherty to a back injury, and Gerald Wilkins to a ruptured Achilles tendon, as both players were out for the entire season.

Despite losing both Daugherty and Wilkins, the Cavaliers posted an 11-game winning streak in December, which led them to a 20–8 start, and held a 28–19 record at the All-Star break. However, they played below .500 basketball for the remainder of the regular season, as Mark Price only played just 48 games due to a broken wrist injury. Price would soon return, as the Cavaliers finished in fourth place in the Central Division with a 43–39 record, and earned the #6 seed in the Eastern Conference.

Price led the team with 15.8 points and 7.0 assists per game, along with 103 three-point field goals, while Tyrone Hill averaged 13.8 points and 10.9 rebounds per game, and was selected for the 1995 NBA All-Star Game in Phoenix, Arizona, and backup point guard Terrell Brandon, who stepped up in Price's absence, provided the team with 13.3 points, 5.4 assists and 1.6 steals per game. In addition, second-year forward Chris Mills became the team's starting small forward, averaging 12.3 points per game, while Hot Rod Williams provided with 12.6 points, 6.9 rebounds and 1.4 blocks per game, and Bobby Phills contributed 11.0 points and 1.4 steals per game. Meanwhile, Cage averaged 5.0 points and 6.9 rebounds per game, while off the bench, Danny Ferry contributed 7.5 points per game, and Campbell contributed 6.0 points per game.

Hill also finished tied in seventh place in Most Improved Player voting, and head coach Mike Fratello finished in second place in Coach of the Year voting.

However, without Brandon, who suffered a leg injury during the final month of the regular season, the Cavaliers would lose to the New York Knicks, 3–1 in the Eastern Conference First Round of the 1995 NBA playoffs. Following the season, Price was traded to the Washington Bullets after nine seasons in Cleveland, while Williams was dealt to the Phoenix Suns, Wilkins was left unprotected in the 1995 NBA expansion draft, where he was selected by the newly expansion Vancouver Grizzlies, Campbell was released to free agency, and John Battle retired.

For the season, the Cavaliers changed their primary logo, which showed a basketball going into a net on a black square, and changed their uniforms adding black and light blue to their color scheme; their logo would remain in use until 2003, while the uniforms were slightly redesigned in 1997.

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