I think that this was a valid point, Im not sure wether I personnally agree or not but still I understand his point of view. Sometimes players get crap for doing whats best for them and certainly Lebron has got his fair share of that crap. He just noted that sometimes players do whats best for them and sometimes teams do whats best for them and more often its the player that gets the crap.
Agree or disagree but at least I dont think its worthy of losing respect over a guy that is a huge benefactor and someone who uses his platform constantly to fight racial injustices and so on. At least off the court the guy has been very close to a perfect role model to all young kids out there.
Maybe I'm just too old-fashioned or stuck in some "loser" mindset, but to me this is just something that 99% of the world deals with. 99% of employees receiving a paycheck do not have the same rights or privileges that the owners/employers do. You sign a contract that pays you X, you don't get to demand to your employer that you want to go work for a different company but still get paid X (the argument being made about the supermax and whatnot). You don't get to tell your boss to transfer you to a different division or you'll bum it out in your current job. When your company doctors say you're fit to work, you don't get to say nope I'm not well I'm staying home and you still have to pay me. You don't get to tell your boss that you have every intention to leave the company in a year, and in the meantime still expect to be paid and given every development opportunity. And to say that just because you're ridiculously good in basketball you should be exempt from these normal workings of working in an organisation AND be paid millions is rather arrogant if you asked me.
And as far as doing what's best for oneself? Who says organisations don't get criticized? We of all franchises should know that. Most non-local/non-fans of the team don't criticize a player for leaving in free agency in itself (obviously the local/team's fans would be upset ... and they are similarly upset when FOs trade their favorite players! They even leave message boards!). What is criticized is their larger decision to team up with other stars, join a rival etc. And the reason is because we don't want a league of 30 teams becoming a farce where year in and year out it's 2 or 3 teams locked for the finals, or we don't want the big markets to consistently have the advantage over smaller markets. That's the real sentiment that underpins any discussion about a player's "legacy" ... I mean really, our lives go on whether or not Kevin Durant has a ring or not, but we sure would get a whole lot more entertainment watching him try and get it on a team that has never made the finals rather than with 3 other all stars...