It could be a year for Cavs in American basketball — Virginia in college, and Cleveland in the pros.
The city of Cleveland is America’s most gut-punched sports city. There is no debate. The Chicago Cubs are the most gut-punched team, but the Windy City has the Blackhawks. Chicago had the Bulls in the 1990s. It had the Bears in the 1980s. Buffalo comes in second place, but that city has no NBA or Major League Baseball franchises. (It used to have an NBA team, but that’s a different story for a different day.)
Cleveland has been suffering in three sports, not just two, for nearly 50 years.