CLEVELAND -- The doors opened to the Cleveland Cavaliers' locker room Thursday after their 128-122 victory over the Boston Celtics and every Cavs player had his eyes directed toward the flat-screen television in the front of the room.

The Golden State Warriors, KD Edition, were facing the Oklahoma City Thunder, Russ-Plus Edition, for the first time since Kevin Durant shifted the league’s power structure this summer and left Russell Westbrook seemingly in the lurch. And the rapt attention in the Cavs' locker room was just a microcosm of how the rest of the league was responding to the NBA’s latest superteam: by not just watching, but downright gawking.

Every bit of body language scrutinized. Every box score pored over. Every interaction -- from how the players celebrate when they make a play to how they fail to celebrate when they make a play -- picked apart.

On the same night, the defending champs had faced the team that has become the vogue pick as their closest competition in the East, and few people -- outside of the reporters who regularly cover both teams -- seemed to care or notice.

“When there’s a marquee matchup, we want to watch it,” Kevin Love said of the Cavs' interest in the Warriors-Thunder game. “We’re basketball fans too at the end of the day. Some of those are our guys, but when we play we’re enemies.”

Cleveland was seen as a mutual enemy of the rest of the league two seasons ago when Love was acquired from Minnesota and LeBron James left the Miami Heat to return for a second stint with the Cavs.

When the Cavs watch a game like GSW-OKC, they don’t just get the rewarding experience of seeing high-level basketball (James covered his mouth and said, “Ooooh,” when Jerami Grant dunked in the first half, as if he were a judge at All-Star Weekend), but they also get the almost out-of-body experience of seeing the spotlight that once shone squarely on them now pointed somewhere else.

“Putting a team together no matter what is going to be difficult,” Cavs guard Kyrie Irving said. “Whether they’re superstars, All-Stars, MVPs, chemistry there, being with different guys every single day. Even though they have a culture built over there. For us it was the same. Just finding plays and finding your spaces that you feel comfortable in. Guys are in different roles. It takes a while.

"It was definitely good pressure. It led to us being in the Finals in 2015 and us making it back in 2016 and us ultimately becoming champions. So you just wish them the best. It takes time. But for us it definitely was good pressure. We fueled on it. It was basically us versus the league. I still feel that way about this team, and we will always have that chip on our shoulder.”

Humming along at 5-0 with James averaging close to a triple-double, Irving settling in as the team’s go-to scorer, Love showing few weaknesses on either end (yes, really, he’s even defending) and a coach in Tyronn Lue who clearly commands his players’ respect, there’s little intrigue. With no more player unrest, yet no level of play so stellar that a season record like 73-9 is expected to be in play, the general consensus on the Cavaliers has been, “See you in June.”

In fact, it seems more attention has been paid to whom their starting center is dating or what decorations James had at his annual Halloween party than what they’ve been doing on the court.

Not that everyone has been ignoring them.

“This is the best I’ve seen the Cavs play in November,” fourth-year Celtics coach Brad Stevens said. “From what I’ve seen them look like, and everybody is trying to figure themselves out to be the best version of themselves, but they’re way ahead of where they were the last two years, in my opinion, watching them.

"And [James] looks great. I mean, they’re really good.”

James himself will tell you he has pushed those negative memories from the past Novembers -- the stumbling out of the gate and starting 19-20 under David Blatt in 2014-15, the injuries and the inconsistencies that led to a coaching change last season -- out of his mind.

“I don’t even remember the stage at this point last year,” James said. “And I definitely don’t remember this stage from my first year back. It’s just for us, we want to continue to get better.”

An established juggernaut making slight adjustments to improve just doesn’t grab headlines. Nobody is freaking out about the zoom function on the new iPhone camera, for instance.

While Boston, missing Al Horford and Jae Crowder, managed to come back from a 20-point deficit to make Cleveland work in the fourth quarter Thursday, the jury is still out on whether any team in the East will truly challenge the Cavs during the regular season.

That’s just fine by Cleveland. It can finally focus within rather than stress over attention from the outside. That’s somebody else’s problem now.

“Our pressure is what we put on each other every night,” James said. “We want to hold each other accountable every night and we got a group of guys that are just not satisfied with doing what we did last year. We want to also be able to put ourselves in a position where we can do it again.”