Tyronn Lue calls it a ‘relief’ to finally learn conference finals foe

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INDEPENDENCE, Ohio — And on the seventh day, an Eastern Conference finals opponent finally emerged for the Cleveland Cavaliers.

After a week-long layoff, the Cavs were finally able to rejoice in the knowledge of what team they will be facing in Tuesday’s Game 1 (8:30 p.m. ET, ESPN) following the Toronto Raptors’ decisive 116-89 victory over the Miami Heat in Game 7 of their second round series on Sunday.

“We’re about to get our work in now, we know who we’re playing,” said LeBron James prior to a rare evening practice for the Cavs as the team waited until Heat-Raptors was finished to begin their session around 6:30 p.m. “We’re going to start diving in on their personnel, diving in on what they do best. They were chasing us all year for the No. 1 seed. We look forward to the matchup, just as well as we looked forward to Detroit and also Atlanta as well.”

Tyronn Lue said he would not glean anything from the Raptors’ performance against the Cavs during the regular season. David Liam Kyle/NBAE via Getty Images

What Cleveland wouldn’t do was look back at its regular season series with Toronto — which the Raptors won 2-1 — as any indicator of how the conference …

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