INDEPENDENCE, Ohio -- High on a wall and across the courts from where John Beilein was sitting, the Cavaliers' basketball history stared the new coach in the face.
He wants to make it richer.
"Look at all those banners up there," Beilein said, pointing toward reminders of the 2016 NBA championship, Eastern Conference titles and division crowns won by the Cavs -- most of them in the past decade. "It's been done before. Why can't it be done again?"
This basketball renaissance man is ready for his next recovery project.
Saying he won't use the word "rebuild," Beilein was introduced Tuesday by the Cavs, whose surprising choice of the 66-year-old was met with skepticism only by those who haven't crossed paths with him over more than four decades as a coach.