Cleveland was championship-starved. In need of a hero, not any savior, a local hero. In 2003, through some bad basketball and the NBA Draft Lottery, the Cavaliers got theirs, LeBron James. And through a circuitous route, everything eventually worked out with the city’s first championship in decades.

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