Cleveland, located on the south shore of Lake Erie, can be said to be the former affiliated port city of Detroit, the Motor City, which, like the Motor City, had a glorious past in the industrial era and is now synonymous with decay, with half of its population lost from its peak.

The city of Cleveland is mentioned in the United States movies and TV series, and they are basically playing negative roles, such as filming post-apocalyptic scenes. But when it comes to sports, the exception is because here is the new NBA champion, the Cleveland Cavaliers!

Like most small-city teams, the Cleveland Cavaliers have long played a role as a running companion in the NBA.

While the team isn't the league's long-term playoff miss like the Clippers, the Cavaliers are also a tragedy, having made the playoffs multiple times in the more than three decades before James joined the Cavaliers, winning only three series and going out in the first round the rest of the time.

All three series victories were led by Brad Doherty, Mark Price and Larry Nance.

That's right, Larry Nance is the father of Larry Nance Jr., who is playing for the Lakers, and he is also the first slam dunk contest champion in NBA history! If it weren't for such an athletic dad, Larry Nance Jr. wouldn't have such explosive jumping and dunking abilities.

These three can be said to be the greatest decorated players in the history of the Cavaliers, but compared to the thunderous names of the Celtics and Lakers, these feats are simply unknown.

Whether or not these three people are known may serve as a test question to distinguish between true Cavaliers fans and James fans.

Even Brad Doherty, the leading brother of the trio, may not be known by many people in this era, but in his time, he is also famous.

The "four centers" big dream Olajuwon, Orangutan Ewing, Admiral David Robinson plus the big shark O'Neal, do you feel that O'Neal and these people's names feel particularly young together, and they are simply not characters of the same era.

In fact, before the Big Sharks joined the league and rose, there was a saying that there were four centers in the NBA league, and Brad Doherty was the name that was squeezed out by the Big Sharks.

Olajuwon's 84-year champion, Ewing's 85-year-old champion, Robinson's 87-year-old champion, and now the nameless Doherty is the 86-year-old champion in the middle.

Four centers, four champions!

Doherty was affected by injury, and his career was only 8 years like Yao Ming, and then he retired gloomily, which is also an important reason why he was squeezed out of the four major centers, leaving an average of 19 points and 9.5 rebounds per game, which is extremely similar to Yao Ming's 19 points and 9.2 rebounds. The difference is that Doherdi is very good at responding, averaging 3.7 assists per game in those days, while Yao Ming only has 1.6, of course, Yao Ming is better in blocks.

It can be said that he is the NBA star most similar to Yao Ming, but he does not have the huge influence of Yao Ming to promote Chinese basketball, and he plays for a small team like Cleveland, so that he has almost been completely forgotten now.

He led the Cavaliers to only three series victories in two seasons, the most powerful of which was the 91-92 season, when the Cavaliers fell to the Bulls of Joe in the Eastern Conference Finals, and Joe was the public enemy of the great centers!

Since then, the Cavaliers have also had stars like the "Rain Man" Kemp join, and they still entered the playoffs many times, but they have never won a single series, and all of them ended in the first round.

The Cavaliers were in a long rebuilding period until they drafted an Akron-born high school player with the No. 1 pick in '03.

And this selected player is naturally LeBron James, who was already called the "chosen son" in high school.

The small city of Akron is not far south of Cleveland, known as the rubber capital of the world, and can be counted as a satellite city of Cleveland, and it is not a big mistake to even say that Akron is the country of Cleveland, so James can also be barely counted as a Cleveland.

The arrival of James has finally ushered in the real dawn of the Cavaliers, which have been rotten for many years.

Although it didn't bring the Cavaliers back to life immediately, James averaged 20.9 points, 5.5 rebounds and 5.9 assists per game in his rookie season, and James did deserve the name of "The Chosen One".

In his second season, James led the Cavaliers to a 42-40 record with a winning percentage of over 50 percent.

Of the 30 teams in the league, the top eight in the East and West enter the playoffs, so a win rate of more than 50% is usually the playoff threshold.

However, it is a pity that the Nets and Cavaliers were both 42-40 at that time, and with the advantage of playing against each other, the Nets entered the playoffs as the eighth in the East, while the Cavaliers, who had the same record this season, unfortunately failed to enter the playoffs.

In the third season, James led the Cavaliers to complete the transformation and became a powerhouse in the league, with a 50-32 record and a winning percentage ranked third in the East, but the first winning percentage was the Detroit Pistons in the same central division, and the Nets were the top in the Atlantic region, and the winning rate was not as good as the Cavaliers, but they ended up in third place, squeezing the Cavaliers to fourth place, and finally the Cavaliers lost in Motor City after seven games.

I have to mention one person in that season, Dwyane Wade, who is also the 03 Super Platinum generation, and the Cavaliers of the champion Lang James' team lost against Motor City, but the Flash Wade, who was ranked fifth in the draft, led the Heat to defeat the Pistons in the Eastern Conference Finals, and once again made a big show in the Finals, defeating the Mavericks led by the peak Nowitzki.

It is true that the Heat that season had a big shark traveling eastward, but in the playoffs, Wade was indeed like a god, and his combat power was still above the big shark O'Neal!

Especially in the case of O'Neal's Finals injury, Wade almost single-handedly defeated the Mavericks!

Wade was crowned FMVP while winning the first championship trophy in history for the Heat!

As the champion of the 03 platinum generation, as the chosen son, James saw the achievements of Wade, who was not as close as he is now, in addition to admiration, he may have been somewhat stimulated.

This excitement allowed James to lead the Cavaliers to further success the following season, and they went through the first round, the second round, survived the Eastern Conference Finals, and reached the Finals!

The Cavaliers have achieved unprecedented results under the leadership of James!

With Wade Zhuyu in front, even if the opponent is the GDP-led Spurs, the Cavaliers have no shortage of supporters, maybe this time it will be LeBron!

It's a pity that no one thought that a tragedy was about to happen, 4:0, the Spurs won two big games at home, and the away side was steadily suppressed, shattering Cleveland's dream of winning the championship for the first time in history.

It was also after this mid-final crushing that Duncan's lie "The future is yours!" was circulated! ”

In the next few years, the Cavaliers will still be a strong team, and in fact, the team with James can indeed go from being a fish belly to a league powerhouse overnight.

The following season, the Cavaliers made a comeback, but in the second round, they met the Green Big Three in a championship year, and lost after seven big games.

If it weren't for the Celtics' home-court advantage, the outcome of this game might be hard to decide, and the Cavaliers are not out of the cracks against the Celtics.

Perhaps the second round elimination of the previous year made James realize the importance of home-court advantage, after that, James led the Cavaliers to take the regular season record further, being the top of the East for two consecutive years, and also beating the Lakers, who topped the West for two consecutive years, with the first regular season record in a row, no matter which team they face in the playoffs, they have home-court advantage.

It's a pity that they lost to the peak Magic team led by Howard in the Eastern Conference finals in the first year, and the second year they lost to the Celtics Big Three in the second round, and the home-court advantage did not bring them a substantial effect.

After the game with the Clippers, Pierce told Chen Zhi that he had been responding to James strongly, and it was by no means so boring to brag, and the Big Three of the Green Shirts twice blocked the sharp-spirited James in the second round, which can be called the biggest pain in James' early career, and the opponents with James at that time were all Leather teams.

Quite coincidentally, in the two years that James had the best regular season record and also achieved two consecutive regular season MVPs, the league championship happened to be Kobe Bryant and Gasol's Lakers in two consecutive small dynasties, and it was Kobe Bryant who had two consecutive FMVPs.

After the first Finals in history, the Cavaliers fell in the Eastern Conference finals, and then fell in the second round, each time the playoff record was worse than the first, and if this trend continues, the next season may fall in the first round.

After this season, James made the decision to leave Cleveland1.

This is also the reason why many fans criticize James for his weakness, when making the decision to leave the Cavaliers, although James cannot be said to be the first person in the league, after all, there was still Kobe Bryant at that time, but the second person in the league is also stable, after all, the two consecutive MVPs are at their peak.

What Cavaliers fans are looking forward to is naturally that this Cleveland son will stick to the Cavaliers like Wolf King Garnett sticks to the Timberwolves, fighting for Cleveland's honor and dreams.

When he announced that he was bringing talent to Miami, it was no wonder that Cleveland fans called James a traitor and even burned James jerseys.

Of course, what many fans criticized the most was this decision to huddle.

James has just been a two-time regular season MVP, and it is at the peak of his time that he is leaving the Cavaliers, just like Nash is preparing to leave the Suns after two consecutive MVPs, which is absolutely incredible, and this has never happened in the entire history of the NBA.

What's more, in addition to the MVP James who teamed up with him in Miami, the other two players, Wade and Bosh, were also absolute superstars in the top ten of the MVP list at that time, and their competitive state was also at its peak.

This is the pinnacle newspaper group criticized by fans, and it is not at all the same situation as Garnett, Ray Allen, and Pierce, who are already over thirty years old and in the twilight of their careers.

Of course, there is a difference between the two huddles, in addition to whether they are at the top or not, and ordinary fans may not notice this, but it is this that really makes James a traitor to Cleveland.

Ray Allen joined the Celtics because the supersonics, who had a very poor record, were ready to rebuild, so they used Ray Allen as a bargaining chip to trade with the Kates.

Garnett, the king of the Wolves who adhered to the Minnesota Timberwolves, even hollowed out half of the Green Shirts and gave the Timberwolves a lot of capital to rebuild the team, so when Garnett left the Timberwolves, the Timberwolves team and fans sent infinite gratitude and blessings.

Although James did not join the Heat as a free agent, but signed first and then traded, he announced his departure from the Cavaliers through ESPN before joining, which made his value to the Cavaliers shrink infinitely.

Even if that trade exception was traded for the Clippers' first-round pick and a 2.8% chance of being lucky enough to pick Kyrie Irving, who would later be the cornerstone, it was management and luck to do so.

From the fact that the owner of the Cavaliers broke up with James and became mortal enemies, we know how heavy the losses of the Cavaliers were at that time, which is also the real reason why Cavaliers fans burned James' jerseys and called them traitors, not simply because James wanted to go to other teams.

After that decision, James walked on the cusp of the storm, from attracting countless fans to recruiting countless blacks overnight, which is also the reason why his basketball statistics are far above Kobe, but he is still not liked by old fans.

But James proved to be a wise decision, if not the right one, for himself and for the Cavaliers.

James reached the Finals four years in a row with the Heat, winning two of them.

The phrase "winning or losing" sounds cruel, but it is a universal truth, at the same time that the Heat won two championship rings, James officially took over the name of the league's first person from the injured Kobe Bryant, and became the hottest star in the league.

However, for James, what is really important in the past few years with the Heat is not the two championship rings, but the huge prestige he has built up with two championship rings and strong strength, as well as the confidence and experience to win championships!

So, when the big cheater Duncan led the Spurs to defeat the Heat again, James and the Heat were over, and he returned to Cleveland, which can be regarded as his hometown and the place where his career began!

Cavaliers owner Gilbert, who once hated James, quickly reached a settlement with James, after all, he also knew that James chose to leave and made a decision that made fans criticize, which was indeed a helpless move, because in James's years in the Cavaliers, the Cavaliers could bring few helpers to James.

It's not that the Cavaliers are unwilling to provide James with help, but their vision is too poor, Larry Hughes, who was signed with a big contract early, quickly got out, and then signed Big Ben and Big Shark with a high salary, and the salary is still above James, although these two are celebrities, but when they were in the Cavaliers, they could even be called high-salary and low-energy, and there were also Szczebiak and Jamison, both of whom had tens of millions of big contracts, but they were all old guys who had passed their peak.

The tattoo of the "chosen son" on James's body is enough for people to see his competitiveness and self-confidence, but in the deteriorating Cavaliers, James can't see hope and can only choose to leave, not to mention the unpredictable "friend mother's door" that broke out back then.

James, who has returned to Cleveland, is no longer the immature James of the past, he has been able to rely on his huge prestige in the league to bring superstar players who were difficult to sign in the past, as well as strong role players who are willing to take a pay cut.

In the 2015-2016 season, the son of Akron finally got his wish and brought the championship to the Cavaliers!