Inside Cleveland’s quiet revolution: can the red-hot Cavs really win it all?
LeBron is not walking through that door. But the surging Cavaliers have the Eastern Conference’s best record and appear to be bona fide contenders
The poet Hanif Abdurraqib opens There’s Always This Year – his 2024 volume on the Cleveland Cavaliers, basketball and Ohio – with a meditation on the shared pain of Cavs fans before the arrival of LeBron James, and the unfettered joy he delivered with the 2016 NBA championship:
You are putting your hand into my open palm, and I am resting my one free hand atop yours, and I would like to commiserate here and now, about our enemies.
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