Competition's Withering State

Recently, professional basketball player and life-long Ohioan LeBron James left his former team, the Cleveland Cavaliers, to play with Chris Bosh and Dwayne Wade on the Miami Heat. This is old news, but I'm not so much interested in the act itself as I am interested in motivations behind the act and the reactions to the act. In Ohio, fans claimed that in last year's playoffs, LeBron quit, that he was already looking forward to his impending free agency, despite the fact that the series between Cleveland and Boston was tied at two games a piece. After the series, James himself expressed disappointment with his team's decision making, particularly in regards to giving James other talented players to work with.

So, he left for Miami.