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Haden: LeBron, Cavs winning title is motivation for Browns

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The longest championship drought in professional sports came to an end Sunday when LeBron James and the Cavaliers finally brought a championship to Cleveland.

Cleveland's football team may still find itself on the opposite end of the contending spectrum, but one of its star players is looking to follow in James' footsteps.

Browns cornerback Joe Haden noted the lessons that can be learned from the Cavaliers' historic accomplishment in a guest column for MMQB.com on Monday.

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, a first-round pick in 2010, is one of few star players on a team commencing yet another mass rebuild.

Now that the supposed curse has been lifted, though, perhaps this is the year things start moving in the right direction for a franchise that hasn't been to the playoffs since 2002.

Before Sunday, the Browns had brought home Cleveland's most recent championship - in 1964.

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