Takes By The Lake Podcast

LeBron James brought Cleveland its first major sports championship in 52 years, but was winning just one title in James' 11 years in Cleveland a failure by the Cavaliers? On the latest episode of Takes By The Lake from cleveland.com, Doug Lesmerises is joined by Chris Manning of fearthesword.com and Scott Sargent of waitingfornextyear.com to discuss the James era and whether it should be viewed more with joy or regret. What more could the Cavs have done to win with James? Was it mismanagement or bad luck? Now that Kawhi Leonard has been traded, what does that tell us about how the Cavaliers handled the Kyrie Irving trade? And what could the Cavs have done to avoid losing Irving and James in consecutive offseasons? James is now a Los Angeles Laker, but he'll always be a part of Cleveland sports. How are you thinking about his time here right now? Chris and Scott provide their insight and assess whether that one title is only to be celebrated, or whether Cleveland fans are justified in feeling there should have