In what was arguably the most awaited and most emotional return of an athlete in Cleveland Sports history, center Zydrunas Ilgauskas returned to the Cleveland Cavaliers and Quicken Loans Arena last night.
The Cavs’ marketing team went all out and created a special “Welcome Back” party atmosphere for the beloved native Lithuanian, as the arena was transformed into the “Z Nation.”
Special “CavZ Welcome Back Z” T-Shirts were sold, and commemorative two-sided wall posters were handed out to excited fans, as they entered the arena. One side of the poster contained a Cavs logo, a picture of Z in uniform, and read “Welcome Back March 28, 2010; while the flipside simply contained the letter Z with a shadow of his likeness inside of it.
