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Fear the Links: NBA Champion Cleveland Cavaliers edition

Want to read about the Cavs' title win? Here are a bunch of great options.

By BrettLZelman@blouiszelman Jun 21, 2016, 9:09am CDT

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Breaking a 52-year Cleveland title drought brought out the best from many sportswriters all around the country. Here are some of those stories. Feel free to let me know if I'm missing any.

Jason Lloyd at the Akron Beacon Journal's Final Thoughts, which are always a must read after every Cavaliers' game.

When it comes to writing about the narrative surrounding basketball, no one is better than Sports Illustrated's Lee Jenkins.

And when it comes to writing about the game of basketball, no one is better than ESPN's Zach Lowe.

Cavaliers' beat reporter Dave McMenamin and ESPN Insider and Northeast Ohio Native Brian Windhorst at ESPN covering the sights and sounds of the Cavs win.

Windhorst again on LeBron and the power to change legacies.

The Cleveland Plain Dealer and Cleveland.com's Chris Haynes' eulogy of the Warriors and praise of LeBron on his ring.

ESPN's Warriors' reporter Ethan Strauss showing the disappointment of the Warriors' losing.

Strauss again on the Warriors hangover.

Fear the Sword's David Zavac wrote this prescient piece before Game 7 on Kyrie Irving's brilliance.

David wrote this after the game about the drought being over.

Fear the Sword's Carter Rodriguez on the heroism of LeBron James and Kyrie Irving.

Clevelander and MLB writer Anthony Castrovince had an amazing piece on Cleveland becoming a city of champions.

Cleveland native Joe Posnanski for NBC Sports writes about the improbability of finally bringing that elusive ring home to Northeast Ohio.

ESPN's Ramona Shelburne on LeBron winning for The Land.

Ken Berger at CBS Sports on an epic Game 7.

Chris Ballard of Sports Illustrated on the LeBron vs. Draymond Green matchup deciding the Finals.

Dan Wetzel at Yahoo Sports on bringing a title home to Cleveland.

Danny Chau at The Ringer on LeBron's legacy.

Tom Ziller at SBNation on LeBron and winning for Cleveland.

Andrew Lynch at Fox Sports on Steph Curry.

Tim Kawakami of the San Jose Mercury News on the Cavs ending as the better team.

Billy Haisley of Deadspin on Kyrie being the best version of himself.

Patrick Redford of Deadspin on Bron's omnipotence.

Jason Lloyd of the Akron Beacon Journal again, this time on covering a championship team and life on the road.

Albert Burneko at Deadspin on the redemption for Kevin Love.

Russ Bengston at Complex about the Warriors not being dead yet.

Draymond Green's final entry into his journal that he has kept throughout the Playoffs at ESPN's newly launched The Undefeated.

Joe Vardon of Cleveland.com and The Plain Dealer on redemption for the relationship of Dan Gilbert and LeBron James.

Jason Gay of the Wall Street Journal on ending Cleveland's heartbreak.

Josh Levin of Slate on LeBron being even better than we thought.

Chris Parker of Cleveland Scene on LeBron ending the curse.

Cleveland favorite Terry Pluto of The Plain Dealer on making Cavaliers' fans proud.

And Pluto on being able to exhale.

Marla Ridenour on the Akron Beacon Journal on the tears shed throughout Cavalier land.

David Aldridge of NBA.com on delivering on promises.

Aldridge again on the ridiculousness of conspiracy theories.

Zach Harper of CBS Sports on timely hero ball.

Harper on the Cavaliers' offseason.

Matt Moore of CBS Sports breaking down LeBron's iconic block of Andre Iguodala's layup.

Moore on Kevin Love's future.

Bill Reiter of CBS Sports on what the Cavaliers did being deeper than basketball.

Rodger Sherman of SB Nation on the Cavaliers title run being deserving of winning Best Picture.

Paul Flannery of SB Nation on believing in LeBron James.

Tim Cato of SB Nation with the complete timeline of what JR Smith has done after becoming a champion.

Tom Ziller of SB Nation again on how the Warriors angered the basketball gods.

Liam Boylan-Pett of SB Nation on pissing LeBron off.

Michael Lee of Yahoo! Sports' The Vertical on the Warriors' stunning collapse.

Chris Mannix of Yahoo! Sports' The Vertical on LeBron James being the GOAT.

Dan Devine of Yahoo! Sports on the Cavs' Championship lasting forever.

Devine on Kevin Love getting the defensive stop of his life.

Branson Wright, longtime Plain Dealer writer, writing for ESPN's The Undefeated about watching the win in a bar in Cleveland.

Mike Wise of ESPN's The Undefeated on LeBron James returning home a champion.

Yanick Rice Lamb of ESPN's The Undefeated writes about hanging out at St. Vincent St. Mary.

ESPN's analytic guru Kevin Pelton on LeBron's rank amongst the all-time greats (insider).

Craig Lyndall of Waiting For Next Year on no longer Waiting For Next Year.

Andrew Schnitkey of Waiting For Next Year looks behind the box score of Game 7.

Rachel Larimore of Slate on how Clevelanders are feeling right now.

Chris Herring of The Wall Street Journal on LeBron's epic block.

Neil Paine of ESPN's The 538 on the Cavaliers historic playoff run.

Marcus Thompson of the San Jose Mercury News on the Warriors being humbled.

Zack Meisel of Cleveland.com and The Plain Dealer on the meaning of "only in Cleveland".

Bill Livingston of Cleveland.com and The Plain Dealer on LeBron James and Kyrie Irving's historic performances.

Livingston on the Cavaliers winning for all of us.

Yahoo! Sports compiled

a list of tweets from current and former NBA players on the Finals.

Rob Mahoney of Sports Illustrated on LeBron's historic performance elevating his all-time rank.

Mahoney on how the Cavs pulled off the remarkable upset.

Evans Clinchy of Hardwood Paroxysm on LeBron being the only one able to defeat these Warriors.

EJ Maroun of Hardwood Paroxysm giving another perspective of what it finally feels like for a fan now that the drought is over.

Kyle Neubeck of Hardwood Paroxysm on LeBron and Kyrie not changing who they are.

Ian Levy for Fansided on the end.

Scott Rafferty of The Sporting News on Tristan Thompson's defense.

Hal Brown for Hardwood Paroxysm writes about LeBron James and what is fact and what is fiction.

Steve DiMatteo for Fansided on misery's final days in Cleveland.

Fear The Sword's own Daniel Rowell writing for Hardwood Paroxysm on following LeBron home.

Bobby Marks writes for Yahoo! Sports' The Vertical on the Cavs' offseason plans.

A roundtable post we did here at Fear The Sword.

Martin Rickman for Uproxx writing about the celebration in Cleveland after Game 7.

Hayden Grove writes for Scout about winning for his grandpa.

Zach Frydenlund of Complex reflects as a Cavaliers' fan.

The best moment's of Game 7 from The Ringer.

Albert Burneko of Deadspin on if LeBron is now the greatest ever.

In March, Bruce Schoenfeld of the New York Times wrote talked to Warriors' owner Joe Lacob about how he thought the Warriors' organization was "light years ahead" of everyone else in the NBA.

ESPN's Darren Rovell on the record breaking sales of Cavs' Championship gear.

Now a few video and audio links:

The Cavaliers' official Championship video.

NBA.com's mini-movie of Game 7.

NBA.com's video of the Cavaliers' win, trophy presentation and celebration.

LeBron's speech from the rally.

SB Nation's video of the Cavaliers' Championship.

LeBron talking to ESPN's Rachel Nichols.

LeBron talking to ESPN's Scott Van Pelt.

JR Smith's extremely moving postgame podium interview.

Leigh Ellis of the Starters interviewed many Cavalier players during the locker room celebration.

Cavalier's radio play-by-play man John Michaels Championship call.

Nike's ad recognizing the Cavaliers' Championship.

ESPN's Sports Science on The Block.

YouTube user FreeDawkins posted a full Kyrie Finals Highlight Video

BottleGate compiled 75 different videos of Cavs' fans reacting to the win.

NBA.com posted a recap of the parade.

Deadspin compiled Stephen A. Smith's last 6 Finals picks. All 6 were incorrect.

ESPN's Sports Science on The Block.

YouTube user MJO Mixes compiled all 6 of LeBron's blocks of Steph Curry in the Finals.

Podcasts and other audio:

Fear The Sword's own Fear The Podcast has Justin Rowan, Carter Rodriguez and Chris Manning talking about the NBA Champion, Cleveland Cavaliers.

ESPN's Zach Lowe and Brian Windhorst on The Lowe Post on the Cavaliers' side of things.

ESPN's Zach Lowe and Ethan Sherwood Strauss on The Lowe Post on the Warriors' side of things.

ESPN's Jalen Rose and David Jacoby recap the Finals on The Jalen and Jacoby Show.

Sam Amick and Jeff Zilgitt of USAToday recap the Finals with ESPN's Rachel Nichols and SBNation's Paul Flannery on The A to Z Show.

The Ringer's NBA Show has Tate Frazier, Juliet Litman and Chris Ryan on the Finals.

Nate Duncan and Danny Leroux give an in-depth recap of Game 7 for RealGM Radio on the Dunc'd On Podcast.

Duncan and Leroux with another Dunc'd On discussing the Cavaliers' and Warriors' offseason plans.

ESPN's Jorge Sedano and Amin Elhassan on The Lockdown Podcast discuss winning one for The Land.

Zach Harper, Matt Moore and James Herbert of CBS Sports recap the Finals on the Eye on Basketball Podcast.

Clevelander Chris Rose of MLB and NFL Network talks to Andy Baskin and Jeff Phelps of 92.3 The Fan.

Mr. Cavalier Austin Carr speaks with Baskin and Phelps.

Sports Illustrated's Lee Jenkins speaks with Adam the Bull and Dustin Fox on 92.3 The Fan.

The Associated Press' Tom Withers speaks with Bull and Fox.

Cavalier play-by-play man Fred McLeod talks to Bull and Fox.