Frederick Nance, a Cleveland-based regional managing partner at Squire Patton Boggs, could have been one of the happiest lawyers in America on Friday afternoon.

In news that went far beyond the sports world, basketball star LeBron James announced via an exclusive story on SI.com that he would return to his hometown Cleveland Cavaliers, the same National Basketball Association franchise he had left in the lurch four years before to take his talents to sun-kissed Miami.