The Cavaliers are within a game of the best record in the NBA and are about to impart on a four-game Western road trip, but coach Mike Brown is only interested in where the team is at the end of the season.

"I don't look at it as 'If we win all four, we're a championship team, or if we lose all four, we're not a championship team,' " Brown said Sunday afternoon. "My thought process is one day, one game at a time.

"Some of my players are probably looking at this whole trip saying, 'Hey, it's a great measuring stick.' If they feel that way, great. But for me, it's way too early to talk about measuring sticks. At the end of the season, we'll see where we sit record-wise. That will tell us how good we did during the season and what position we're in going into the playoffs. Then your real measuring stick comes in how you do in the playoffs. To me, that's when you bust out that measuring stick and see how good or bad you are."