The Quicken Loans Arena came alive last night and begged the question: Can the biggest victory in a franchise's history come during a season full of epic failures?
LeBron James was there to bear witness. After all, it was he who ignited the fires in Cleveland by fleeing to the warm, sandy beaches of Miami.
In front of the crowd that he once called home, the same crowd that he spurned less than a year ago on national TV, he was finally humbled…at least for a night.
As the Cleveland Cavaliers shot out of their minds and Chris Bosh was irrelevant in a way that Chris Bosh has become accustomed to in big games, the King, as he is no longer known in those parts, was humbled.
The game, which, with all the vitriol could have been still written off as meaningless, was important last night. With a chance to pass the Celtics in the standings and gain ground on Chicago, the Heat failed.
They got outplayed by a team that wanted it more, that felt it more personally and was not going to be denied. They showed the fight they had claimed LeBron never had (after he left, of course).
Today, the Cavaliers will go back to being bad and the Heat go back to being dangerous. But for one night, the Cavaliers were what Dan Gilbert promised they would be.
Better than LeBron James.
For more on this story and more, stay with me all day.
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