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Well they said "CLEEEEEEEVELAND!" and that was about it. JR was shirtless, lol!

I'm still in shock.

From theonion.com, a satire site for those who are unaware:

'Cavs Teammates Sheepishly Tell Kevin Love They’re Not Aware Of Any Postgame Parties'

http://www.theonion.com/article/cavs-teammates-sheepishly-tell-kevin-love-theyre-n-53116

P.S. ^That's^ not funny!

I know a lot of people on here don't like LeBatard... but he compiled a bunch of quotes from "experts" after GSW won game 4...

Fun starts at about 2 1/2 minutes

I almost want to do that with Dawgtalk posters.

And ESPN is already asking if Lebron goes back to Miami now.

Well, aside from the parade, the league moves on because the season is over. Heck, the draft is in three days!

Lebron, besides Durant, is the biggest potential free agent this offseason. I'm okay with the questions 16 hours after the game ends. Heck, I'm okay if Lebron pulls a, "I'm taking my talents to the Hoosier state" 3 minutes after the parade. He came back, he broke the curse, and we have a title. I'll support him the rest of his career wherever he ends up.

I just want to say congrats, even though I am just a Browns fan and live 1200 miles from Cleveland ,I am happy for my fellow DTers.

I would think that he'd at least stick around to go for a repeat. "His guys" deserve that much...not to mention the city.

The Promise Keeper: LeBron realizes his dream with a title for Cleveland

http://www.si.com/nba/2016/06/20/lebron-james-nba-championship-dreams-cleveland-cavaliers-finals

The cover of Monday's Plain Dealer newspaper:

Plus, where else is he going to go with as good a team around him? Who could give him a max deal, and teammates the caliber of Kyrie Irving and Kevin Love? Plus, maybe Wade comes to Cleveland next year for another title. lol

Man, watching the replay of Game 7 ..... and Love had a pretty good defensive game overall. He made a lot of plays on defense.

j/c.....

Here's video of LeBron speaking to fans upon arriving at his home in Bath.

"I'm just a kid from Akron."

Link

Adding Wade as a hired mercenary would be pretty sweet. Something tells me that he would rather endure 50 loss seasons in Miami than a championship season in Cleveland though.

Best line from that article:



He knows us all too well.

What a great night for the city. The celebrations were so much fun. Heck, I even jumped on top of a firetruck last night for a bit.

The thought is that he orchestrates anothe "super team" with some mixture of Chris Paul, Wade, Kevin Durrant, Carmelo Anthony, etc...

Funny thing is, now that lebron has proven he can win in cleveland, we will have the cream of the crop to pick from when it comes to mercenaries, going to be interesting losing RJ, Mosgov is a FA, JR opted out, and of course lebron is a FA. Should make for an interesting summer

Typical...

Cleveland Cavaliers allow all Northeast Ohio sports fans to finally exhale ... it's over!!! -- Terry Pluto


By Terry Pluto, The Plain Dealer
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on June 20, 2016 at 9:42 AM, updated June 20, 2016 at 10:05 AM

OAKLAND, Calif. -- Finally, we can breathe.

That's what I kept thinking the morning after the Cavaliers won Game 7 of The Finals, bringing the NBA title to Cleveland.

We can relax. We don't have to hear it any more...

All the gnashing of the teeth and all the talk of Cleveland curses...

And all the twisted delight some in the national media would take when a Cleveland sports team would fail ... once again ... to win a title.

It ended in Oakland's Oracle Arena, where the Golden State Warriors almost never, ever lose.

Only they did.

It ended when LeBron James brought the Cavaliers back from a 3-1 deficit, something no team ever was supposed to do.

Only they did.

It didn't happen in some strange way. No asterisk can be slapped on the Cavaliers being the NBA champions.

As James wrote in his Sports Illustrated essay when he announced his return to the Cavs in July of 2014: "In Northeast Ohio, nothing is given. Everything is earned."

They earned it.

Every point in that pressure-packed, gut-twisting, sweat-oozing 93-89 victory was earned.


FIRST THE BLOCK

Even easy baskets weren't so easy because both teams were so anxious, so desperate to bring a title to their respective cities.

And some easy baskets weren't baskets at all ... because three times James came out of nowhere to block what should have been layups for the Warriors.

James erased six Golden State points.

You know when I thought the Cavs could win?

The score was 89-89. It had been 89-89 seemingly forever.

Actually, Golden State's Klay Thompson scored with 4:39 left to make the score 89-89.

Then both teams were firing up air balls, clanging jumpers off the rim, throwing passes into the abyss.

Both teams were staggering, exhausted.

I counted up the missed shots. The two teams combined to miss 13 ... that's right, 13 MISSED SHOTS ... between Thompson's layup and Kyrie Irving's 3-pointer with 53 seconds left.

Back to when I started to believe the Cavs would win. With with 1:50 left in the game, Golden State's Andre Iguodola was ahead of everyone ready to make a layup.

Only he didn't.

Only James came roaring from behind to swat it away.

Only James, who played all but 71 seconds in this game, found the energy and the will to say, "I'm not letting him score."

Only then did I begin to think, "It ... just ... might ... happen."

At Oracle Arena, 90 percent of the fans sat in stunned silence.

The other 10 percent ... the Cavs fans who somehow found tickets ... screamed until their throats were raw.

NEXT CAME THE SHOT

Forget what Michael Jordan did to the Cavs in Game 5 of the 1989 playoffs. It was heart-breaking, but it also happened in the first round as the Cavs were eliminated.

Think about Kyrie Irving.

Think about Kyrie Irving rising for a 3-pointer with 53 seconds left.

Think about Kyrie Irving making the shot ... breaking the 89-89 hammerlock ... and doing it over Stephen Curry, this season's MVP.

Think about Kyrie Irving doing that in Curry's house, the arena where Golden State lost only two regular season games.

Think about The Block by James, The Shot by Irving...

Think about the history being made.

What did Irving think when he fired up that shot, perhaps the toughest of the 13 attempted during that late-game frigid period for both teams?

"I was just hoping it goes in," said Irving. "It was 89-89 for a good portion of the game, especially in that fourth quarter. So I was just thinking the next team that scores has a great chance at winning the championship."

James had missed four shots during that nearly four minutes when no one could score. Irving had failed to connect on a 5-footer.

Curry missed a two shots from 3-point range. Thompson missed a 15-footer.

No one could make anything.

Until Irving did.


WE CAN FINALLY BREATHE

"I came back for a reason," said James. "I came back to bring a championship to our city. I knew what I was capable of doing. I knew what I learned in the last couple years that I was gone."

He was right.

James delivered a triple-double for the ages: 27 points, 11 rebounds, 11 assists.

Right behind was Irving with 26 points. He nearly outscored the Golden State star backcourt, as Thompson and Curry had 31 points on some ugly 12-of-36 shooting.

But Irving talked more about James than himself after the game.

"I'm very thankful that I have a guy like that leading our team," he said. " I can continue to learn from him ... I watched Beethoven right now. LeBron James compose a game. He had a freakin' triple-double in Game 7 of an NBA Finals game.

"All that matters is we're champions and our whole team is etched in history."

Amen to that.

The final words should come from James:

"Knowing what our city has been through and what Northeast Ohio has been through as far as our sports and everything for the last 50-plus years...

"You can look back to the Ernest Byner fumble...

"Elway going 99 yards...

"Jose Mesa not being able to close out the bottom of the ninth...

"The Cavs going to the Finals ... I was on that team in 2007 and getting swept...

"Then last year, us losing 4-2 (in The Finals)...

"So many more stories...

"And our fans, they ride or die no matter what's been going on. No matter. The Browns. The Indians. The Cavs ... they continue to support us. And for us to be able to end this, end this drought ... our fans deserve it. They deserve it. It was for them."

http://www.cleveland.com/pluto/index.ssf...art_river_index

Safe to say it was a bit of a snafu You still playing?

Yeah, I'm still floating around.

A ton of credit for that block goes to JR Smith. He got there first, he forced Iguodala to slow a bit and go under, adjusting his shot from what would have been a dunk.. that allowed LBJ to get the block. If JR doesn't alter the shot without fouling, the block doesn't happen.

Quite sure I most likely saw you on that firetruck with about a hundred others. Reports were that the police and firemen didn't care? If you're talking about the one on E 9th, that is.

...speaking of E 9th, does that become James St.?

Man...

I'd rather them rename Euclid; isn't that the street Austin Carr alwas yells about "getting that weak stuff outta here"?

Lebron finally told his secret motivation that we've been hearing about since last year.

Supposedly someone in the heat organization (Riley) told him that going to Cleveland would be the worst decision of his life.

So much for that ....

Oh, and I can't believe I haven't seen this posted yet ......

@Stets, I'll have to jump on IRC sometime soon. Been too long.



Yep, that's the one. And the police and firemen didn't care one bit. We were already out on the street by the time the firetruck came out into the intersection with two EMS vans. People started to climb the firetruck, so I ran over there, saw the driver give some people a thumbs up to climb, and grabbed anything I could. Stood up there for 20 minutes, before it got a little too hectic/repetitive. Went towards the back of the truck to climb down and there were two bike cops helping people get down. Nice guys those two were. No one cared at all. Not even when one kid was using the traffic light to rep out pull ups. Not to mention the entire intersection was smoky with weed. But no cops cared. Great day. What a great night. I only saw 3 people who were not smiling ear to ear.

Lol, I bet Harrison Barnes regrets not signing that extension now. Bet on himself...and lost. He's not gonna get any money with that finals performance

#Cleveland



Euclid and Prospect smelled like what a Grateful Dead concert must've smelled like back in the day. Luckily I got out easily on Superior, and headed east towards 90. Felt bad for anyone parked on Euclid or Prospect.

I have not posted on Cavs threads because I'm not an NBA fan, but I watched the game, because ... #history, and I want to say that I'm so very happy for all of you, as well as for the city I love, and Cavs fans everywhere. Rock on, C-town!

I hope to see this day before I die for both the Indians and the Browns too.

Enjoy.

I am afraid this will be deleted but I had multiple hands free orgasms all day today.