[5][6] Despite losing both Brad Daugherty with a back injury, and Gerald Wilkins with a ruptured Achilles tendon for the entire season,[7][8][9][10] 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.
[11] However, they played below .500 for the remainder of the regular season as Mark Price missed 34 games with a broken wrist.
[20] However, without Brandon, who suffered a leg injury during the final month of the regular season,[21][22] the Cavaliers would lose to the New York Knicks, 3–1 in the Eastern Conference First Round of the playoffs.
[23][24][25][26] Following the season, Price was traded to the Washington Bullets after nine seasons in Cleveland,[27][28][29][30] while Williams was dealt to the Phoenix Suns,[31][32][33][34] Wilkins was left unprotected in the 1995 NBA Expansion Draft, where he was selected by the newly expansion Vancouver Grizzlies,[35][36][37][38][39] 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,[40] and changed their uniforms adding black and light blue to their color scheme;[41][42] their logo would remain in use until 2003, while the uniforms were slightly redesigned in 1997.