Mission to Cleveland: The Cavaliers’ big game and LeBron James’ confidence

The disparities between the big and small US markets have narrowed in the age of social media, but the reality is that Cleveland remains one of the less popular destinations for NBA players. LeBron James put it on the map after many years, LeBron James erased it from him when he left for the Miami Heat in the summer of 2010, he resurrected it when he came back and gave him the championship he was promised.

The city of Ohio, which isn’t even the state capital, is a very cold place and we’ve felt it forever these days, it’s a quiet place with not much to do, so the Cavaliers are the whole pride. The Cavs have entered a new era, they’ve got a big group of young athletes, they’re marching…to a championship in the eastern region, they’ve forced everyone to talk about them. There are people who see them as a bigger threat in the playoffs than teams like the Bulls, Celtics, Sixers and Nets as their enthusiasm, ambition and momentum pierce the ceiling, but in Cleveland they live with a dream and it’s not another Return of the NBA king for his third term with the team.

Mission to Cleveland: Harris Stavrou

The city has forgotten the difficult years before. Darius Garland, an amazing point guard, Ivan Mobley, a unicorn that looks like a superhero at times, Jarrett Allen, Laurie Markanen, Isaac Okoro and of course Colin Sexton who was shot in the knee and they create an explosive mix that the spectacles feature combines substance, but most of all it excites the people of town and makes opponents think about how they are going to play against a team that started the season with a goal of ten but is fighting for the Quartet of the East!

The agency exudes health, the stadium was recently renovated with $100 of Ohio’s $193 million in taxes, it has the largest jumbotron in the entire NBA, and it’s generally a modern headquarters, seating 20,000 and now filling. It’s filling up as the Cavaliers are once again the pride of the town. It’s always been like this, people just needed a few young people to “connect” with them to find hope on their face, after all, Cleveland isn’t a rich big city, it’s a city that’s gone through different phases and always about it struggles to go on his own two feet, her feet.

The Commissioner, Adam Silver, told us at Saturday’s (2/19) press conference that the 2022 NBA All-Star Weekend will leave $100 million in town! An enormous sum for one of the cities hardest hit by the coronavirus in the last two years. And yet even now, in the winter of 2022, in Cleveland, they’re thinking about LeBron James and waiting for his return. 100 people, if anyone in town asks, all 100 will tell them the king is going to serve a third term with the Cavaliers, and the truth is he’s also putting his hand in maintaining that scenario.

In his own media session on Saturday, James was quite excited as he spoke about Akron, the place where he grew up. The attack “The Cavaliers have two kids in the All-Star Game and a third, me“It was enough to get the locals excited and excited.

LeBron will turn 38 in the summer of 2023, when he will be free to negotiate his next and likely final contract. He’s said many times that he’d like to play on the same team with his son, but Broni can’t enter the draft until 2024 with the existing regulations, and that may complicate the situation a bit.

James will return to Cleveland at age 39, in his 40s, to be with Sexton, Garland, Okoro, Mobley and Allen, who will have matured even more and – if they stay together – as one of the best trunks of the world will be considered NBA. ; It is possible. And probably apart from the townspeople, he wants it too. This will be the ideal finale to an unrealistic career filled with accolades, championships, milestones and upcoming performances, in a career that will eventually see him alongside Michael Jordan for the title of Greatest of All Time. If it’s not already GOAT.

For now, we’ll enjoy him in another All-Star Game, on the same team as Giannis Antitokoumbo, Steve Carey, DeMar DeRozan, Nikola Jokic, Luka Doncic, and two town kids, Garland and Allen. People will adore him, they will support his team, they will show him that his arms remain open to him in a relationship that has gone through all possible and unlikely stages but has deep foundations and endures over time.

Sportish in Cleveland

Accredited journalist Haris Stavrou is in Cleveland starting Thursday (February 17) to broadcast the pulse of the 71st NBA All-Star Weekend, the gathering of the best basketball players in the world. Sportish is once again at the side of Giannis Antetokounbo, who is entering the eighth festive three days of his career, but in the sixth All-Star Game as a champion. Thanasis and Alexandros Antetokounbo are in Ohio for the Antetokounmpo team to compete in the Skills Challenge.

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