LAS VEGAS -- Five days after LeBron James announced his decision to join the Los Angeles Lakers and about five minutes before his team took the floor for its first summer league game, Cleveland Cavaliers general manager Koby Altman reflected on the end of an era.
"When you first get hit with it, there is a level of hurt," Altman told a small group of reporters underneath the bleachers at the Cox Pavilion. "You're hurt because of what you went through for the four years with him and what he meant to us.