After eliminating the Atlanta Hawks in the second round on a Sunday afternoon, Kevin Love was asked whether he was starting to feel comfortable around his teammates off the court. The Cavs power forward has been known as an introvert, to the point that LeBron even asked him via Twitter last year to start fitting in with his teammates. The Cavs are 12-2 in these playoffs and heading to their second consecutive NBA Finals. Chemistry-wise, it appears winning has fixed everything.

"I have a great relationship with everybody on the team," Love responded, as LeBron and Kyrie Irving laughed beside him at the podium. And then Love ended his answer by saying, unprompted, "Game of Thrones tonight. I'm trying to get home and watch that."

Love takes his favorite HBO show very seriously. Recently, the Cavs were in Toronto on a Sunday during an off day in the Eastern Conference Finals. His HBO GO password wasn't working in Canada. He was getting notifications on his phone that he was going over his data limit. "I bit the bullet," Love told me. "I didn't care what media package I had. I had to do it. Otherwise, I can't go on the phone or scroll through a timeline."

The episode Love watched at his hotel was titled "The Door", which ended with the death of Hodor, who happens to be Channing Frye's favorite character. A few days earlier, Frye had told me about the Game of Thrones viewing parties he has with his wife. In the offseason, they will invite friends over for dinner, then head to the movie room to watch an episode together. On his favorite character, Frye said: "This is going to sound weird. But it's Hodor. That's my man. He's strong as shit. There's some low key stuff going on right there."

Then, you know, that happened.

On the Monday following the episode where Hodor met his end, Frye was in the locker room before Game 4 against the Raptors, but had not seen the episode yet. But just like any of us, NBA players have trouble avoiding Game of Thrones spoilers if they don't watch the episode right away. Frye was no different. According to him, Love had spent the entire morning shouting "hold the door," a reference to Hodor's final words. Frye also saw a few Crying Jordan memes online. He was able to put two and two together.

"There's no way he could have officially known what happened," Love said, denying the accusation that he was ruining the show for his teammate. On Sunday, Love and Iman Shumpert—another avid Game of Thrones fan—posted a photo on Instagram of the pair wearing Hodor shirts to honor the dead. (Here's hoping Frye is all caught up now.) And since the character's death, Love and Shumpert have added a hold the door gesture as part of their handshake routine.

Not everyone in the Cavs locker room are Thrones fans. LeBron James mentioned Man vs. Wild as a show he watches to decompress at a post-game presser recently. Budding coffee magnate Matthew Dellavedova has recently gotten hooked on House of Cards, and J.R. Smith is presumably watching himself shoot fadeaways on NBA2K. But Love, Frye, Shumpert, and team trainer Alex Moore (who binge watched all five seasons of Thrones thanks to a recommendation from Love) represents the Game of Thrones circle in Cleveland's locker room.

"It's one of the best shows ever," Frye said. "It's transcending how television should be." Frye is a huge science fiction and comic book fan, so naturally he's a fan of the fantasy elements of the show, although he wishes Bran would stop screwing around in the past and do something about the present. Given his lack of patience with some of the plot points, it's probably best for Frye that he doesn't plan on reading the books, after his brother told him the battle scenes can sometimes go for 200 pages. "That's too much reading," Frye said.