The decision, made at exactly 8:27 p.m. Chicago time, creates a new Big Three in the NBA and validates Heat President Pat Riley’s bold, grandiose plan to alter the balance of the Eastern Conference. It also rips the guts out of the Cavaliers franchise and its home city.
I disapprove.
Home town is best. He wants to be famous, but what of his personal life? Does he not relish the joy of domesticity, seeing familiar faces of people he grew up with, that and giving to his city? No, and I think he will regret it when he’s old and gray.