Ten years after their championship run, members of the 2015-16 Cleveland Cavaliers reunited in the United Kingdom, according to posts from the group. LeBron James, Kevin Love, J.R. Smith, Richard Jefferson, Tristan Thompson and Channing Frye shared photos of themselves together as they played golf and sipped wine.
The group posed near Tower Bridge in London and played golf at Loch Lomond Golf Club in Scotland, described in the posts as one of the world’s “finest private members clubs.” The itinerary appeared to include five days of golf; the group also bought watches and ate dinner during the trip.
In a joint Instagram post shared by James, Smith, Thompson and Frye, the caption read, “The group chat finally linked up.” Another joint post between Jefferson, Love, Thompson and Frye included a video of Thompson delivering drinks on the course, captioned: “We all have roles.”
Notably absent from the reunion was Kyrie Irving, who hit the go-ahead 3-pointer for Cleveland in Game 7 of the 2016 NBA Finals, according to the posts. Smith commented on a post about the reunion, writing: “Missing none. He was invited and ghosted us all. So stop with that bs.” Irving was dealt to the Boston Celtics following the 2016-17 season after he requested a trade.
Jefferson began a 10-year anniversary series on his podcast, “The Richard Show,” with Love, Thompson and Iman Shumpert joining to reminisce, according to the podcast notes. Smith, whose episode is set to release Thursday, had previously hinted at a May trip to Scotland and Northern Ireland and said, “These boys want to play 36 [holes] a day. They locked in. I’m like OK, now we talking, now we talking.”
