Before we could suggest that northeast Ohio was on the verge of its worst depression since the great one of the 1930s, we consulted with Dru Joyce II, who returned from a cruise this week to find LeBron James and what’s left of his Cleveland Cavaliers one game away from losing the N.B.A. Finals.
It was unfortunate timing, he conceded, a vacation to celebrate an advanced degree in interior design earned by his wife, Carolyn, a mother and grandmother of four.
“We booked it in February and it was all paid for,” Joyce said in a telephone interview.