{"id":744111,"date":"2026-06-18T03:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T03:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/744111\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T03:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T03:24:08","slug":"lebron-kevin-love-and-more-reunite-for-cleveland-cavaliers-2016-title-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/744111\/","title":{"rendered":"LeBron, Kevin Love and more reunite for Cleveland Cavaliers’ 2016 title anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ten years after their championship run, members of the 2015-16 Cleveland Cavaliers<\/a> reunited in the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n

LeBron James<\/a>, Kevin Love<\/a>, J.R. Smith<\/a>, Richard Jefferson, Tristan Thompson<\/a> and Channing Frye<\/a> shared photos of themselves together Tuesday and Wednesday as they hit the golf links and sipped wine.<\/p>\n

The group posed near Tower Bridge in London and played golf at Loch Lomond Golf Club in Scotland, one of the world\u2019s \u201cfinest private members clubs.\u201d They also bought watches and ate dinner as part of an itinerary that seemingly included five days of golf.<\/p>\n

In a joint Instagram post Wednesday between James, Smith, Thompson and Frye, the caption read: \u201cThe group chat finally linked up.\u201d Another joint post between Jefferson, Love, Thompson and Frye included a video of Thompson delivering drinks to the group on the course, captioned: \u201cWe all have roles.\u201d<\/p>\n

Notably absent was Kyrie Irving<\/a>, who hit the go-ahead 3-pointer for Cleveland in Game 7 of the 2016 NBA Finals against the Golden State Warriors<\/a>. Smith seemingly addressed Irving\u2019s absence, commenting on a post about the reunion: \u201cMissing none. He was invited and ghosted us all. So stop with that bs.\u201d<\/p>\n

Irving was dealt to the Boston Celtics<\/a> following the 2016-2017 season after he requested a trade.<\/p>\n

Cleveland memorably came back from a 3-1 deficit against the 73-win Warriors. The 10-year anniversary of the Cavaliers\u2019 Game 7 victory is Friday. It marked the first 3-1 comeback in the NBA Finals and the first championship in Cavaliers history. Cleveland returned to the Finals the following two seasons, losing both to Golden State.<\/p>\n

Jefferson began a 10-year anniversary series on his podcast, \u201cThe Richard Show,\u201d with Love, Thompson and Iman Shumpert<\/a> each joining to reminisce. Smith — whose episode on the show is set to release Thursday — hinted at the group traveling in May, pinpointing Scotland and Northern Ireland for a golf trip.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese boys want to play 36 [holes] a day. They locked in. I\u2019m like OK, now we talking, now we talking,\u201d Smith, who played golf at North Carolina A&T, said. \u201cI don\u2019t know how many holes they gone finish but we gone see.\u201d<\/p>\n

Plans successfully made it out of the group chat, and the champions have been posting each stop on the itinerary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ten years after their championship run, members of the 2015-16 Cleveland Cavaliers reunited in the United Kingdom. LeBron…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":744112,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,122281,266690,122172,459,82],"class_list":["post-744111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cleveland-cavaliers-sports-basketball-team-team-statscom-5","tag-kevin-love-sports-basketball-player-player-statscom-395374","tag-lebron-james-sports-basketball-player-player-statscom-214152","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=744111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/744112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}