“When had there ever been a chance for one athlete to affirm an American city, a region, so powerfully? It was all teed up so perfectly. So many years of Cleveland being the butt of so many bad jokes, all to be made right thanks to LeBron, who’d restore balance by lifting Cleveland just as the new flatter twenty-first century took off. Cleveland: As good as anywhere else, and now, for a time, at least in this very real very measurable way, in the team sport where individuals mean the most, thanks to an individual who was born and raised here, Cleveland would be the best.”
Cleveland Frowns: We Are All Losers
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
