I think LeBron moving this year was about his family as much as anything.
It seems Savannah really wants to be there, and his boys are starting school. Isn’t Bryce a freshman this coming year? That’s gotta be a big deal.
LeBron wanted to go to LA at some point, the Cavs made it easier to leave than it ever has been, and it was best for his family to go now.
Not gonna get into the initial stuff that’s been rehashed a million times and I read through on vacation, but in terms of timing, it seems clearly about his family as much as anything.
Bronny is starting 8th grade, Bryce Maximus was born during the 2007 finals and is ~2 1/2 years younger.
Funny thing about his having a good situation family-wise and with the Cavs to leave:
I was just looking back at the 2014 letter, which has been on my wall for a while and is not coming down any time soon, and as much as people want to take umbrage now with some of the statements, and that Windhorst et al had reported him as "speaking from the heart" rather than carefully scripting, he had worded most all of his statements so that he could wiggle out if he had to - which is not exclusive from his speaking from the heart.
For instance, his "finishing his career in Cleveland" is still possible, and his "not leaving Miami for anywhere except Cleveland" didn't preclude the latest move.
Despite it widely being called a "promise" he specifically said he couldn't promise a championship, although his goal was to bring "a" championship singular, as has often been parsed.
It is funny, with what we have just talked about here of Bosh and Wade being a better situation and ending up with 2 titles instead of 1, that one of LeBron's declarations was that it was going to be a longer learning curve and would test his patience - and yet the first 2 years ended exactly as the Heat's did, with a 6-game finals loss up 2-1 and a title.
There is luck in every situation, and the Heatles could have easily ended up with just 1 title as well or even 0; 2013 was a very close call, and 2012 had some close moments in the East and for that matter, the '12 Finals could've been different if Game 2 ended slightly differently.
As I've said, the 2014 Heat really were a lot like this past year's Cavs, as well, in terms of having an aging core and few real means to get better; that team was a comparable 54-28, 12-3 in the playoffs against a
much weaker East, and got gentleman's swept against a Spurs team that, like the Dubs, was GOAT-level.