Richard Hofacker was bummed out.
Little wonder. Last fall, the Akron resident kept reading and hearing about Cleveland Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert forking out big bucks to give a championship ring to everyone in the entire organization.
Yet here he was, the team’s podiatric physician for 30 seasons, and apparently he had been overlooked.
It wasn’t as if Hofacker hadn’t contributed to the team’s title run. In fact, a couple of days before Game 7 of the NBA Finals, he was summoned to deal with a hematoma that had developed under the big toenail of a player he refers to only as “a star point guard.