The Tower City Center in Cleveland is a mall’s version of an identity crisis.



It is attached to a Ritz-Carlton and also to the Tower City Rapid Station, a public transportation hub where locals commute to and from their grind. It has a Brooks Brothers clothier, and the dining options include a Subway and an Auntie Anne’s pretzels, but also a Morton’s.



It is inside this white napkin restaurant where David Kelly, the Warriors’ lead lawyer, clashed with the setting last month. The champs were partying, celebrating their third championship in four years just hours after beating the Cavaliers in Game 4. The high-end franchise punctuated its conquest with Moët, Cuban cigars and aaaalllll the filet mignon.



But Kelly didn’t partake. He found himself a booth, sat down and watched. Part of him, deep down, wanted to dive in, an urge that at peak strength might feel like a nudge on his shoulder. But this really wasn’t his...