Cavs set to celebrate 2016 NBA title with parade through Cleveland
The Cleveland Cavaliers and their fans will celebrate their remarkable 2016 NBA Finals victory over the Golden State Warriors — the first NBA championship in franchise history, and the first professional sports crown for a Cleveland club in 52 years — with a parade and rally in downtown Cleveland on Wednesday morning.
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If you’re not in Cleveland, you can follow live streaming coverage of the parade right here, thanks to WKYC in Cleveland:
According to Cavs.com, the rolling “community victory celebration” will kick off at 11 a.m. ET, and will feature parade floats, “specialty vehicles,” the Ohio State University Marching Band, players, coaches and team officials along a route that will begin near Quicken Loans Arena and travel through the streets of downtown Cleveland, followed by a rally featuring “a special program of celebration with an array of entertainment.”
Cavs fans still ecstatic and eager to celebrate after Sunday’s thrilling and emotional victory began making their way into downtown Cleveland in droves many, many hours before the parade was set to kick off, with some even beating the sunlight to the party:
Even amid the excitement of a historic celebration that was expected to draw an estimated 1 million revelers, though, some found time to relax:
… and some even found the most elusive item of this entire post-championship run: J.R. Smith’s shirt.
You just know a party’s going to be good when you’ve got giant replica joke T-shirts hanging off buildings two hours before it starts.
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