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LeBron, Steph and the Cavs 2016 Title | A King's Reign Ep 6

The Athletic NBA Daily

The Athletic

Comedy, Unknown, Sports, Sports News, News, Basketball

4.42K Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2023

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

In episode 6 of A King's Reign, Jason Lloyd details how the Cavaliers got LeBron James back to Cleveland, Joe Vardon on the epic Cavs 2016 title, and then Marcus Thompson and Zena Keita with a deep dive into the history of the LeBron James-Steph Curry rivalry. A King's Reign is brought to you by Factor. Head to factormeals.com/king50 and use code KING50 to get 50% off, now! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

At Atlassian, we believe impossible things are only impossible alone.

0:04.4

Just ask the 75% of Fortune 500 companies that use Atlassian products

0:08.6

like Jira, Confluence, and Trello to tackle their biggest challenges.

0:12.2

Atlassian, for projects impossible alone.

0:30.1

Welcome to a King's Rain. I am the host of this series, Andrew Schlecht.

0:37.8

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

0:43.2

you know how much some in Cleveland hated LeBron.

0:47.2

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

0:54.4

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

0:58.8

There was the decision, the Dan Gilbert letter,

1:02.1

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

1:07.8

So how the hell did Cleveland get LeBron back?

1:11.5

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

1:16.4

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

1:19.9

Details how the Cavs pulled off that return.

1:23.4

Then, Joe Barton with Channing Fry and Tai Liu,

1:27.0

on the incredible historic, amazing Cavaliers 2016 title.

1:32.6

There was no way in God's reign or we were going to lose that game.

1:37.2

We could have played Jesus Gandhi, Buddha,

1:40.9

whoever else in my grandma out there.

1:43.3

And we were going to beat the shit out of them.

1:45.2

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

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