One afternoon, I was listening to 'The Bull and the Fox,' the sports radio talk show that airs on 92.3 The Fan. It was June, 2016, and the Cavs had just tied the Warriors with a monstrous Game 6 win to force a Game 7. The city was buzzing with adrenaline. It was the first time in 19 years that a Cleveland sports team would play in a game with a championship on the line. A caller called into the show and passed down a story I will never forget. He was a middle aged adult male that had lost his father to cancer years ago. While lying on his death bed, terminally ill, his father passed him down a book with an inscription inside. It said, "When Cleveland wins a championship, take this book downtown and we'll burn it together." A few days later, on Sunday, June 19th, 2016, the Cavs would win the championship. On Father's Day. Something that we will be hearing a lot in coming years, and maybe forever, is how the Cavs managed to win, "Just one,"
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