
As the arena filled with the familiar drone of ''Zeeeeeee,'' Zydrunas Ilgauskas waved his right hand and used his left to gently pat his heart. The big man, the one who started off as a ''skinny kid from Lithuania'' and overcame injuries that would have stopped others, grappled with his emotions as he said thanks to the fans who adopted him as their own. Cleveland roared back. At 7-foot-3, Ilgauskas towered over everyone yet stayed completely down to earth.
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