Some wore NBA championship shirts. Some were still in Eastern Conference gear. In the new wine and gold or the old orange and blue. One boy, topless, had player names and numbers written in marker on his front and back.
Shirts declared “LeBron James for President,” “Defend the Land,” “Beat Atlanta,” “I (heart) Cavs,” and allegiance to Kyrie Irving, Matthew Dellavedova (with the wearer carrying a sign asking Delly for a kiss), past stars such as Mark Price and Larry Nance, and Cleveland itself.
“I liked Cleveland before it was cool,” said one shirt — although the scene at Atlantic Aviation in Brook Park was anything but cool, the temperature in the upper 80s and the crowd hot for its Cavaliers.