This is a city whose teams haven’t won a major-league title of any sort in 52 years, not since the Browns won the NFL Championship in 1964. Fifteen years later, the capper: The decision of LeBron James to sign as a free agent in Miami, announced on live television, as the hometown hero wore a gingham shirt and smiled widely when he slipped the knife between his city’s shoulder blades. Could one player mean more to a city than James does to this one, right now? There’s something interesting about juxtaposing James’ 2014 free-agent return to the state of his birth with all of Cleveland’s sporting failures. It took awhile, but the Toronto Raptors find themselves having run smack into the middle of a LeBron in full flight.

Source: National Post May 19, 2016 17:13 UTC