Written by John Hnat

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At the request of a slew of readers, we're rerunning this column in it's entirety this morning. We ran it in three parts last week, and it's truly one of the finest columns we've run on this website. John Hnat is one of the rocks of this website, and did an incredible job covering the Cavaliers for us through what was a magical season. He's also gone through some unexpectedly tough times personally this year. And this is his story.