While every franchise may proclaim that a Finals championship is their ultimate goal, roughly one-third of the league still has yet to achieve that feat. For the majority of the Cleveland Cavaliers' lifespan, they were one of those teams.
The return of LeBron James in 2014 set in motion the greatest era of Cavaliers basketball, reaching the next four Finals in a row and winning the first Larry O'Brien trophy for the city in a history 2016 comeback. James cemented a legacy as a true hometown hero, ending a city-wide professional championship drought spanning more than half a century.