Saying that on Thursday night one of the biggest free agency decisions in sports history was made would be by no means an understatement—this was the night that we saw the NBA take an incredible turn all based on one single “decision.”
As fans, we were again nothing more but “witnesses” to LeBron James, the back-to-back MVP, when he chose to reveal his intention for the 2010-11 NBA season on an one hour special aired on ESPN.
This decision was, on Thursday night, by no means a surprise for anyone who attempted with any little effort to follow this story, as it had been reported by various different trusted sources that LeBron was heading to South Beach to play along Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh.
Like most fans of the NBA I myself grew more and more eager day after day to find out where the “King” was headed. When reports first came out that LeBron was headed to Miami, I refused to believe it for two main reasons.
The first of which was because for LeBron to join the Miami Heat, he would have to leave his home-town of Cleveland title-less when he was seen in the draft of 2003 as the savior of not ...
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