Memories of a Title

Reflections from Cleveland's 2016 Championship Run

Since we’re in the midst of both baseball and basketball season, this analogy hopefully still works.

Whenever I think back on the Cavaliers’ glorious 2016 Championship run – celebrating its fifth anniversary this week – I always think about the line that Burt Lancaster delivers as Moonlight Graham in the movie Field of Dreams.

Now a septuagenarian, Moonlight Graham reflects on his first (and, as it turns out, only) at-bat as a pro baseball player nearly a lifetime later. He says: “We just don't recognize life's most significant moments while they're happening. Back then I thought, ‘Well, there'll be other days.’ I didn't realize that that was…