Almost all of you are big babies. When you were kids, you might have thought things like "only babies walk away from a fight," or "I need to be the man or I am no one." As you got older, you should have learned that fighting doesn't help anything, and that sometimes you can be better as a team then by being "the man."

Basketball is a team sport. There are five guys on the floor. In fact, a common criticism of todays game (even it is ridden with fallacy) is that today's NBA is too individualized; that teams played with more fluidity back "when I was a kid." Still, I am all for a more team oriented playing style.

Now LeBron James signed with the Miami Heat. It shocked us. But what shocks me even more is how he's been beaten down for it. Sure, "The Decision" was a bad idea from a young guy who hasn't made many, but as a free agent, he had the right to go where he wants to. He had said all along that he wanted to go where he had the best chance of winning and that's actually what he did.

In what weird world do we live where we criticize a guy for taking less money for the sake of the team? Where we call him cowardly, spineless, without drive, will or courage because he left a team that had little to no talent? A team that acquired no new talent, and a team whose owner apparently thought very little of the teams single bright spot?

Why would we root against a team that sacrificed money for team, gave up personal glory and accolades for victory, and that will better basketball for the world by teaching a whole new generation of kids that basketball is a team sport, not a game where you just stay where you are for the sake being "the man?"

I've heard people say that Magic never did this, Jordan never did this, and Kobe never did this. Well Magic and Jordan both were winning titles along side hall of fame team mates before they reached free agency, so it was a very different situation that's not really comparable. Kobe actually demanded a trade after winning three titles on Shaq's shoulders when not even in free agency after Jerry Buss refused to trade Andrew Bynum for Jason Kidd, so if you're going to talk about cowards and quitters, don't bring up LeBron's name...

It's silly. A free agent went to a different team. Yes, the Cavs franchise is sinking like the Titanic. But the nostalgic old idea of a captain going down with his ship is stupid in this case. Why waste a super talent that comes along once every generation on a team incapable of winning? Why should he lose there forever because he was first drafted there by a terrible, terrible franchise?