CLEVELAND — More tears. Only this time, tears of joy.
Cleveland's championship drought, crossing 52 years, generations and noted by a long list of near misses, is over at last.
On Father's Day, LeBron James, the kid from nearby Akron raised by a single mother, brought the title home.
As the final seconds of Cleveland's 93-89 victory at Golden State in Game 7 ticked off on the giant scoreboard inside Quicken Loans Arena, 18,000 fans, some of them strangers when Sunday night began, cried, hugged, screamed and shared a moment many of them have spent a lifetime dreaming of.