CLEVELAND -- "Time to Roll."
It's no coincidence that LeBron James wore that jacket on his way out of Quicken Loans Arena, right? A black jacket, no less.
"Time to Roll."
LeVillain not only rolled out a spectacular 38-point performance and a crushing of Cleveland 118-90 win in LeReturn, but he did it in the worst way possible as far as so many locals see it.
On a red and black carpet.
The pride of the Miami Heat, who was too proud to say sorry to his hometown fans, rolled them and rolled out of town again, but not before rolling through the tunnels of this old haunt to what amounted to a victory parade. A woman worker who was clearly an acquaintance of James' from his seven seasons here poked her head out of a doorway, then yelled, "Hey baby!"
A smiling, warm James shouted back, "Hey sweetheart, how you doing?" He embraced at least a dozen people before he hit the bus, including a man who said, "You're still the King, my man. I ain't mad at ya."
He stole this city's cathartic moment, orchestrating a purging and punishing of his own only to stroll out on the most peaceful of terms.
And as if that wasn't painful enough for these most tortured of fans, he did in such an overwhelming way that the anti-Heat contingent could no longer cite darkness on the grander scale. These hated Heat, it appears, are ready to roll indeed.
Their fourth win in five games certainly felt like the sort of performance a team doesn't forget, the kind of us-against-the-world answer where the fight in the dog is more frightening than the size of dog in the fight. As it turns out, it was personal for the Heat, too, for those around James more than James himself.
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