By Brian A. Lester

(Editor's Note: views below are those of the writer, not this website. InsideHoops.com feels the Cavs have a pretty bright future.)

Dear Santa: I know I'm a little too old for this, but I need to ask you a favor.

I'm not sure how much you follow the NBA, but I would think it would be extremely tough to ignore the fact that the Cleveland Cavaliers are heading nowhere fast.

The Cavs are flat out horrible. It's that simple. And a reversal of fortune doesn't seem to be in sight, at least not in the next half century.

Cleveland fans have long suffered because of bad teams season after season, and this team, despite loading up on several young talented players, give a whole new meaning to the word bad.

Now, just for the record, I'm a Chicago Bulls fan. So quite honestly, I don't care if the Cavs finish with fewer wins than the Browns and still not get the No. 1 pick in the 2003 draft, which obviously would be used to put local prep star Lebron James in a Cavs uniform.

Still, I feel sorry for those folks in Cleveland.

Their baseball team is down in the dumps and their football team wouldn't qualify for the Pop Warner playoffs.

Then there is the Cavs, who found a way to lose 15 consecutive games before ending the skid from hell with a win over a Bulls team that is equally horrendous.

The fans up there on Lake Erie could use a good team to cheer for, or at the very least, a mediocre team that would give them some sort of hope for the future.

And that is where you come in Santa.

The Cavs desperately need you to work your Christmas magic on this downtrodden franchise before the seats at Gund Arena are occupied by dust instead of humans.

Maybe you could make sure Dajuan Wagner stays healthy for the rest of his career or that Zydrunas Ilgauskas never has a foot problem again.

Perhaps you could find a way to turn Darius Miles into Michael Jordan for a couple of years so that the Cavs can get back on their feet, or maybe pump a little holiday cheer into Ricky Davis' life so that he never again gets hit with a suspension for a verbal spat with his own teammate.

The bottom line is that something needs to be done. Fast.

Santa, you are the Cavs' last hope for success. If you can't help them, then I find it hard to believe anyone else can either.

Brian Lester is a sportswriter in Ohio and can be reached via e-mail at BAL4@hotmail.com.