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On the eve of the 2006-07 season, LeBron James stood along the baseline at Quicken Loans Arena and looked up toward the ceiling.Man, James said, scanning the rafters, weve just got to start putting some banners up there.James was coming off his first taste of the playoffs. He recorded a triple-double in his first game, made a game winner with less than a second left in his fifth game and nearly pulled off a historic comeback before losing to the Detroit Pistons?in seven games in the second round. He tasted some success, and as he embarked on his fourth season, he started to feel his place.As James scanned the upper reaches, there was a single banner marking a Cavs accomplishment, a Central Division title in 1975-76. That was the so-called Miracle of Richfield team from 30 years earlier, a team that won 49 games and one playoff series and was a legend in Cleveland for it. The bar for such status was not high.There were six jerseys retired next to the lone banner, only one of them belonging to a Hall of Famer. That was for Nate Thurmond, who played 114 games with the franchise near the end of his career. He was beloved for those 114 games, but again, the bar was relatively low with a team history essentially devoid of greatness.When James was a teenager, he started attending games at the arena, and he couldnt believe how bad the Cavs were, how empty the arena often was, with its bright blue seats seeming like a neon sign of disinterest. During his senior year of high school, he went to several games, was given courtside seats and visited the locker room. His thought was pretty clear after he watched that 17-win team with the lowest attendance in the league: They were awful, and he didnt want to be a part of it.When James made his first trip to Boston two weeks into his rookie season, his then-coach Paul Silas pulled him aside after the morning shootaround and showed James the 1974 and 1976 championship banners that Silas helped the Celtics win. It took him a moment to find them; there were so many hanging that they were hard to locate. As the old coach pointed, his wide, proud smile emerged.Youll get one of them someday, Silas said to James before bellowing out one of his famous laughs. But youll never be better than I was!Before the 2015 playoffs, James wanted to illustrate to his teammates what they were playing for. In 2011, when he was about to start his first playoff run with the Miami Heat, Heat coach Erik Spoelstra had displayed the teams 2006 championship trophy in front of the players as a symbolic reminder. This time around, the Cavs didnt have anything to show off, so James brought his championship rings to practice. His teammates?Kyrie Irving and Kevin Love had never been in a playoff game before. Now, it was James taking on the mentor role and showing off the proud symbols of his work.Fifteen years after he hoped hed never play for the Cavs, 14 years after Silas shared some of his proudest accomplishments, 10 years after James lamented the gaping holes in the rafters and two years after he declared he was coming home, a banner will go up Tuesday night. It will be an 8-foot-wide, 14-foot-tall flag placed in the center of all the other banners.Once the championship banner is raised, the Cleveland rafters will have nine titles represented: five Central Division, three Eastern Conference and one NBA. The Cavs had to order a trophy case to be built in their facility to house all the hardware James has helped them win.Im looking forward to seeing that banner go up and it saying world champions, James said. And another one for Eastern Conference champion and for a division title. Its great to see those accomplishments and be a part of it.The rings are special; they are a players private piece of the championship. They are treasured, they are counted, they are worth so much more than the actual value of the gold and diamonds that make them up.But rings cannot be shared. Rings cannot be looked at as a reminder during difficult times in future big games that are sure to be played in the arena. 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The real estate firm is named Carter, not Carter U.S.A.A corrected version of the story is below:Mayor: Turner Field deal will remake Atlantas south sideA deal to convert Turner Field into a football stadium for Georgia State University will also involve new commercial development and improvements to streets and neighborhoods on the citys south side, Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed said ThursdayBy JEFF MARTINAssociated PressATLANTA -- Turner Field, the home of the Atlanta Braves and the 1996 Olympics, will get its third life when Georgia State University converts it to a college football stadium, Atlanta city leaders said Thursday.The deal involves new commercial development and improvements to streets and neighborhoods on the citys south side, an area that has struggled as other parts of the city blossomed.Speaking outside Turner Field, near a bronze statue of Hall of Famer Hank Aaron, Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed said the monuments presence was fitting.Hank Aaron helped unify a city -- and a country -- with one swing of his mighty bat at the old Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium, Reed said.The project will give an economic boost to the five neighborhoods that surround Turner Field, Reed said.It represents a new beginning for the entire southeast quadrant of our city, he said.Discussions about the redevelopment project began after the Atlanta Braves announced plans to leave Turner Field and build a new stadium about 155 miles away in Atlantas northwest suburbs.dddddddddddd. This the last season for the Braves at Turner Field.Officials announced a signed purchase and sale agreement between Georgia State and the real estate firms Carter and Oakwood Development Group. Details of the financing werent immediately available, though Reed has told reporters that Georgia State has committed at least $200 million toward redevelopment of the 70-acre site.With the redevelopment project, Turner Field will now get its third life as a college football venue, Georgia State President Mark Becker noted. It was built for 1996 Olympic Games, was home to the Atlanta Braves and will now become the home field of the Georgia State Panthers.Georgia State, with more than 53,000 students, is one of the nations largest universities. Its main campus is in the heart of downtown Atlanta, just north of Turner Field.The overall project will also involve building a new baseball field, student housing, shops and restaurants nearby. The project presents an opportunity to develop a world-class mixed use community, said Scott Taylor, president of the Carter firm.Reed noted that the old Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium, which once stood next-door to Turner Field, was known as the launching pad by home-run hitters who felt that its elevation of more than 1,000 feet above sea level helped balls soar out of the park.Turner Field becomes a different kind of launching pad, Reed said. ' ' '