Yes, and gone are the days where CEOs and Team owners cared about anything but their own financial forecast. Lets not be naive! Corporations don't have any loyalty to their people and neither do Team owners. It was a smart business decision. Gilbert and Cleveland made lots of money off of LeBron. They were incredibly lucky!!! to have him for 7 years. He could have gone to many more desirable places and made more money right out of High School. Cleveland came up off of LeBron and his brand not the other way around. They should all be grateful.

Thank you for your intelligent insight. I wish with all my heart that all, or at least 50% of journalist had the professional integrity to write on a heated subject the way you have in this article. Unfortunately, we live in a TMZ and STAR era.

Thanks again, great informational article.