Did LeBron take his eye off the ‘main thing’?

Although he would be lambasted after The Decision, with people in his hometown of Cleveland so scorned they’d burn his Cavaliers jersey, history has proven that LeBron James made the right call that summer of 2010 by opting to join the Miami Heat. How he went about announcing it may have been all wrong — his old girlfriend that was Cleveland finding out the same way and time as everyone else that he was leaving them for someone else, on a primetime TV special — but why he took his talents to South Beach was dead right.

A week earlier in a small hotel conference room in downtown Cleveland, Pat Riley, once the coach of the Showtime Los Angeles Lakers but by this point the president of the 2006 world champions Miami Heat, made his opening pitch to the most-sought free agent in world sport. “We want you to understand that we are going to make sure the main thing remains the main thing.”