Two days after LeBron James announced that he was leaving the Cavaliers for a second time, rain poured down in sheets on the intersection of Ontario Street and West Huron Road in downtown Cleveland, halting the team of workers who had been tasked with tearing down an iconic image.
The buckets that fell from the sky, accompanied by thunder and lightning for good measure, left only half of the most recent version of the 10-story-tall Nike banner of James displayed.
The right side was stripped away -- the ELAND and No. 3 from the back of James' jersey and the gold patch along the neckline commemorating the 2016 Cavs championship were removed -- while the massive black-and-white left side of the image continued to cover the brick façade of the Sherwin-Williams building.