LeBron James‘ second stint with the Cleveland Cavaliers from 2014-15 through 2017-18 was a huge success on the floor, as Cleveland went to four straight NBA Finals, and won their only championship in 2016 after a historic comeback from a 3-1 deficit against the Golden State Warriors.
It’s no secret that in James’ “Return Tour” to Cleveland, though, that it was undoubtedly championship-or-bust every season.
To a large degree, that’s how it is for a number of teams expecting to be contenders every year, but former Cavs general manager David Griffin opened up recently about how with James in that time span, it was even more that way and it wore on the organization and even moreso on Griffin, who has previously dealt with personal issues of his own with testicular cancer complications and that being unfortunate for trying to have children, as he detailed in a interview with Sports Illustrated’s Jake Fischer.