The Cleveland Cavaliers won the 2016 NBA title on Sunday night, beating the Warriors 93-89 in a thrilling Game 7 and ending the city's cursed run of bad luck. Before the Cavs' win, Cleveland had won no major sports titles since 1964.

The championship is creating lots of celebration around the city and inspiring a lot of hope with other star athletes in Cleveland as well. Joe Hadan, penning a perfectly-timed fill-in version of Peter King's "Monday Morning Quarterback" column, wrote a couple hundred words explaining why LeBron inspires the Browns to strive for a championship.

But there's something about the hope he brings, too. That's important. When the Cavs were down 3-1, and they needed to win two games at Golden State to win the series, nobody gave them a chance. But LeBron believed--or at least he played like he believed. There's a lesson in that for all of us in Cleveland. I know it's a lesson that's going to help me.

So the Curse is dead. The Cavaliers are champs. Now we've got to work like LeBron and the Cavs to get ours. This is motivation for our city, and motivation for our team. I am just so ready to go win a championship right now.

Haden, who has been in Cleveland his whole career, is a rabid Cavs fan -- he attends 20-30 home games a year -- who spent Game 7 downtown celebrating with the rest of the city.

(Specifically "in a club where they're spraying champagne like it's the locker room," which I initially read as him writing it in said club, which would be hilarious and probably dangerous for his laptop.)

Joe Haden is a huge Cavs fan. USA TODAY Sports

All in all it's a great read: Haden describes the sense of dread in the city over the past seven years he's been with Cleveland, not to mention the previous few decades.

Cleveland sports fans expected to have their hearts ripped out every time they came close to glory. But this time they got their own version of a iconic moment -- "The Block," perfectly broken down by NBA colleague Matt Moore here -- and found themselves on the right side of history.

If it inspires the Browns to become a good, playoff-caliber NFL team, it truly is the greatest championship ever won.