Senior NBA Writer
CLEVELAND -- It's time to put to rest some fallacies that have followed LeBron James' decision to go to Miami.
First, Clevelanders understood better than anyone that James had the right to change teams. They know it's a free country and he was a free agent. They really and truly know what "free" means -- probably better than anyone. Because every day of the last three years they've lived with the notion.
Heck, Cleveland has seen enough people leave, period, to understand that folks don't always stay in town. They get it.
So to quantify their anger the past few days at James' decision to go to Miami is to misplace it. Cleveland was disappointed James left; they were furious with the way he did it. Had he stayed, they'd have taken him back -- he's a rare basketball player, a once-in-a-lifetime talent -- but his stature still would have taken a hit because they wouldn't have appreciated how he went about his "business."
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