LeBron James Picks the Miami Heat: Announcement and Reactions (VIDEO)
Who is the greatest basketball player of all time? Is it Michael Jordan? Kobe Bryant? ... Or is it LeBron James? For the past year, basketball fans have been engaged in wondering where LeBron James would end up. He's clearly one of the finest players of his generation, and he was drafted by the Cleveland Cavaliers -- a famously terrible basketball team. LeBron is actually from the great state of Ohio, and he started out by playing for his "home" team from Cleveland. But now, his contract is up. And so the greatest current basketball player can move to a different city, if he feels like it.Speculation about LeBron's move was unending. First off, before we even got to LeBron's actual decision, there was constant guessing about what he would do. On tonight's 'Larry King Live' (weeknights, 9PM ET on CNN), Larry had on a couple of so-called "experts," who predicted that LeBron would move to New York. Incorrect! Very incorrect! Still, it's interesting to watch "experts" be immediately proved wrong at something, so that's fun.
Then, LeBron James actually told us what city he was going to. It was presented as a one-hour special on ESPN. (Thu., 9PM ET). Mr. James chose the Miami Heat. Chris Bosh also just joined that team during this free-agent period. So it'll be James, Bosh, and guard Dwayne Wade on the team.
A lot of people thought that James would be better off going to the Chicago Bulls, who seemed to have a better core group of players. But LeBron turned down a lot of extra money, and is moving to Miami. Upon hearing news of his decision, fans in Florida celebrated. Meanwhile, people in Ohio were very very sad.
Actually, LeBron's Ohio fans were more than just sad. They ended up burning his jersey in effigy.
What do you think? Did LeBron betray the people in Cleveland? Or did his former fans freak out and go crazy? Did anyone make the right call here?

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