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You're welcome, Cleveland, how I helped Lebron James win a championship and save a city, Scott Raab

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You're welcome, Cleveland, how I helped Lebron James win a championship and save a city, Scott Raab

Language

eng

resource.biographical

individual biography

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no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

You're welcome, Cleveland

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

974210554

Responsibility statement

Scott Raab

Sub title

how I helped Lebron James win a championship and save a city

Summary

"Scott Raab's big-hearted companion to his darkly comic "sports-jeremiad-slash-memoir" The Whore of Akron follows the first two years of LeBron James's return to Cleveland, where everybody just loves a good story of forgiveness--especially when you fulfill your promise and bring home an NBA Championship, the first major title for a Cleveland team since 1964. "If I had a chance to return to Cleveland, and those fans welcomed me back, that'd be a great story." --LeBron James in 2010, days after "The Decision" In 2010, when LeBron James announced to the world that he was leaving for Miami, he broke the collective heart of his native city and destroyed the hopes of an entire tortured generation. As LeBron headed south, unofficial spokesman Scott Raab sent him off with a middle-finger salute of his own--a deliciously obscene aria of sports fandom, Jewishness, and weight gain that became infamous as The Whore of Akron. Four years--and two NBA championships later--LeBron came home to the Rust Belt faithful who had vilified him mercilessly, none more so than Raab. You're Welcome, Cleveland is the story of both LeBron's and Scott's redemption as they pursue the one thing they crave more than anything in life--an NBA title for the city that made them men. LeBron is back. So is Scott Raab. It's a great story. You're Welcome, Cleveland"--, Provided by publisher"An apologetic, hopeful, and homeward-bound sequel to Raab's memoir THE WHORE OF AKRON. The story of Lebron James's return to Cleveland, and of Cleveland's balance on the brink of a transcendent, championship-studded future with co-stars Johnny Football, Kevin Love, David Blatt, and the author's ailing mother"--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Revelation -- Apologia -- Prodigal -- Media Day 2014 -- Gethsemane -- Yom Kippur -- Homecoming King -- Survivor's Remorse -- Chill Mode (Part I) -- Chill Mode (Part II) -- Rosh Hashanah -- A Long, Long Way to Go -- Via Dolorosa -- Work -- Hallelujah

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