INDEPENDENCE: Coach Tyronn Lue knows why he broke down, why the tears flowed so freely after the Cavaliers won the NBA championship.
It wasn’t just that he’d taken over in January, that he saw his team rally from a 3-1 deficit against the Golden State Warriors in the Finals, that he’d helped end Cleveland’s 52-year championship drought.
Lue wished that his mother and grandmother were with him at Oracle Arena in Oakland.
Instead, mother Kim Lue was home in Houston, grandmother Olivia George in Mexico, Mo., both battling cancer.
“For me it was just sad because they couldn’t be there.