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Learn more at vertexinck.com. Welcome to a king's reign. I am the host of this series, Andrew Schlecht.

If you listen to David Aldridge's interview with Eric Spolstra in one of our previous episodes,

you know how much some in Cleveland hated LeBron.

To this day, I had never really felt like that kind of just overall animosity out of a crowd.

Things were ugly between the city and their previous chosen one.

There was the decision, the Dan Gilbert letter,

the fact that the calves immediately became horrible once LeBron left.

So how the hell did Cleveland get LeBron back?

The athletics Jason Lloyd, who literally wrote the book, The Blueprint,

on Cleveland's plan to bring LeBron James back home.

Details how the calves pulled off that return.

Then, Joe Varden with Channing Fry and Ty Lou on the incredible, historic, amazing

Cavaliers 2016 title. There was no way in God's green earth we were going to lose that game.

We could have played Jesus, Gandhi, Buddha, whoever else and my grandma out there, and we're going to beat the shit out of them.

And Marcus Thompson and Zena Keda look at the ever-changing rivalry of LeBron and Steph Curry.

But first, here's Jason Lloyd on the return of King James to Cleveland.

It's difficult to pinpoint. It's difficult to pinpoint exactly when the Cavaliers first hatched the plan to lure LeBron James back to Cleveland,

but it's easy to identify the moment they knew it was possible. February 16, 2012.

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