The question didn't hit Jim Chones quite right, because it wasn't something the former Cleveland center and current radio analyst had cared to consider. It was posed about an hour prior to Game 3 of the NBA Finals at Quicken Loans Arena, after LeBron James and the Cavaliers had won the first NBA Finals contest in franchise history, when there still seemed at least an outside shot for them to end a city's 51-year professional sports championship drought.
What if James never wins here?
What if, when his career concludes, his only two rings were won in Miami?