“I used to pray for times like this, to rhyme like this. So I had to grind like that to shine like this.”
After eleven months of twists and turns, one that saw the team trade Kyrie Irving in the off-season just to ship away half of the pieces acquired in the deal at the trade deadline, Cleveland is back in familiar territory. For the fourth-straight time, the Cavs will go to war with the Golden State Warriors for the NBA Championship.
Cleveland didn’t have an ideal route back, as mentioned vaguely above. After the Irving trade, the Cavs held their breath as then-starting point guard Isaiah Thomas rehabbed his way back to playing shape.