Before opening the 2025 NBA Playoffs against the Miami Heat, you might’ve had to scroll far down the Cleveland Cavaliers’ depth chart to find Sam Merrill’s name. He’s not one of the Cavs’ headliners.
Sam’s was closed from December 2023 to July 2024. Boccuti gives credit to two people for the business’s survival — his landlord and a great uncle from Florida that he never met. First, Sam’s landlord ...