[BringTheHeat]

Quote: Originally Posted by King_B_Mack

This. I also would like to point out that I and I'm sure many others take issue with how they screwed over a lot of teams, which is why people "outside" of Cleveland are entitled to be upset. Teams spent years making decisions on their franchises based on the idea that they would have a legitimate chance at landing one of the three of them, while they had planned out pretty much the same amount of time that they were going to team up together. The Bulls for example, shipped Kirk Hinrich out of town in order to free up the cap space to have a shot at LeBron or Wade or Bosh. Ben Gordon was let go to keep flexibility for the summer of 2010. The Knicks completely blew up a roster with the hopes of landing LeBron in 2010. A lot of teams made financial decisions when those guys signed short extensions in order to become free agents in 2010. Decisions that made their teams weaker for a chance at them and really, they never had a shot. An argument could be made that they knew that would happen and further **** on the idea of competition by weakening the landscape of the league before getting together to stomp on everyone. I just personally don't like the fact that they did it with the idea in mind that it would be easy. While it ended up being a tougher task than anybody thought, the fact that they were doing it FOR the easiest way possible just doesn't sit right.

Shouldn't have built a team around a chance to get a FA..

And besides, they chose Miami. Miami obviously had the best pitch, better than anything any other team could offer them, that's how FA works..you go to the place who puts you in your ideal situation, for financial reasons or other reasons such as winning.

They could've went to Cleveland and played, or Toronto and played, or hell even all 3 go somewhere else. So Miami simply offered something more, maybe a competent front office? Someone willing to sign help other than the big 3 and a coach who was a Pat Riley puppet>anything Cleveland, Toronto, or any other team had to offer.