An unputdownable, must-have sports book for every LeBron James,
Cleveland Cavaliers, and NBA fan.
June 19, 2016: the greatest moment in Cleveland sports history, when the
Cleveland Cavaliers won the NBA Finals and broke the Cleveland Curse. It
was the triumph fans had been waiting fifty-two years for, and it wasn't
easy to get there--but thanks to LeBron James, an audacious plan to
build a winning team, a couple of maverick GMs, and an incredible
community of fans, it happened; and 2016 saw the birth of a new
Cavaliers dynasty.
But how did they get there? It was a roller-coaster ride from tragedy to
triumph, one that Jason Lloyd, a longtime Northeast Ohio resident turned
reporter for the Akron Beacon Journal, got to see firsthand. He was
witness to the Blueprint, as he calls it, which the Cavs put together to
win their star player back from Miami and build a team that could win
the ultimate championship. It incorporated several losing seasons, some
high-risk draft picks, and an entirely new understanding of how to build
a championship team.
The best part of the plan is that it worked, culminating in the most
exciting Finals series in NBA history. And, most important, the end of
the Cleveland Curse. Jason Lloyd, a true insider, tells the story of how
the NBA really works, and how everyone--from the front office to the
stars on the court to the new generation of coaches--worked together to
create an unforgettable winning team.
