Stop me if you’ve heart this one before: LeBron James has a a decision to make this summer that could alter the landscape of the NBA.
(That was purely rhetorical. There’s no stopping me now.)
The four-time MVP and, with apologies to Kevin Durant, consensus best basketball player on terra firma, has an opt-out clause he can activate this offseason, nullifying the final two years of his deal and rendering him, for the second time in five summers, a free agent.
Much of the speculation about this impending choice has focused, not wrongly, on the person of Dwyane Wade.
When LeBron jettisoned Cleveland in July of 2010, the catalyst was Wade. Yes, LeBron and Wade were close—and for a man who seems to value friendship as highly as James, this surely, at the margins, moved the needle toward the Heat. But the real impetus behind the move was coldly impersonal: Wade’s obvious, irrefutable greatness.
His resume spoke for itself. The then 28-year-old had, in the previous six seasons, made six all-star teams, produced double digit win shares four times, le ...
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