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King James Brings The Land a Crown picks up the Cleveland Cavaliers' tale with the 2015 Finals loss to Golden State on their home floor. It chronicles the team's victorious journey back to that summit to which this generation's greatest sports icon returned for his storybook ending against a Warriors team that finished with an NBA record 73 wins, and took a 3-1 lead in the Finals. It's undoubtedly the greatest prodigal returns narrative in sports history. In one swoop LeBron James went from Judas to Galahad, bringing home the golden cup to a hollowed-out industrial city desperate for sports sunshine after decades of acid rain. It erased 52 years and 146 seasons of futility, going back to the city's halcyon days led by another larger than life legend, Jim Brown.



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Chris Parker

Chris Parker has written authoritatively on a dizzying array of subjects as a freelancer for more than two decades and penned well over 3000 articles.

He cut his teeth in feature writing, particularly music, writing for Billboard, Hollywood Reporter, AVClub and NPR. Over the years he's interviewed Lindsay Buckingham, Ray Davies, the Black Eyed Peas, Elvis Costello, Michael Franti, Doc Watson and one crazy evening spent time with David Bowie, Liv Tyler and Kate Moss.

From there he moved onto longform journalism, writing cover stories for alternative weeklies across that nation, including the Village Voice, LA Weekly, SF Weekly, City Pages, Dallas Observer, San Antonio Current, Phoenix New Times, Miami New Times, Orlando Weekly and Cleveland Scene.

He's written primarily about policy and science, penning exposés on the online poker shutdown, larcenous for-profit colleges, tax-evading corporations, the hacker collective Anonymous, Medicare fraud, our healthcare system, the real estate bubble, the fracking oil crash and the microbiome, among others.

Two years ago, when LeBron James returned to Cleveland, he decided to jump into sports journalism by following the Cavaliers as a beat reporter. His intensive postgame articles for the Scene frequently run over 3000 words, displaying a rigor and level of analysis typically absent from postgame write-ups in the local dailies or major online publications.

In December 2016 he released his book on the Cavaliers' championship: King James Brings The Land a Crown: The Definitive Tale of the Cavaliers' 2016 Title Run.



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