Lebron James makes a strategic decision to join Dwayne Wade and Chris Bosh in playing for the Miami Heat, the ‘old three’ have something to say- the same thing. They not only disapprove of his decision but stop short of calling him a traitor. They also seem to know what they would have done. They all say they would have wanted to play against those rivals versus play with them.

Lebron is a free agent, this means he is a player whose contract with a team has expired and who is as a result eligible to sign with another club or franchise as he chooses. OH-HI-OH got the rest of the states thinking that he was free to choose as long as he chose them. The avenue he chose to present his decision might be questionable but still, it was his decision. The game of basketball needs an injection of excitement. The Lakers seem to be indomitable. The status quo just won’t make the cut. I share the sentiments of former Bull Chet Walker, when he said ‘James is a genius for what he engineered with Wade and Bosh, for the first time in league history, players themselves, not an owner or general manager, put together a championship team’. This is the striking difference between this new generation and the old generation. The older three only saw themselves as rivals in the system, while the new generation see themselves as teammates that rewrite and change the system. Working as individuals ignores the fact that people working together are the only viable solution to any social problem. The system has used divide and conquer techniques, while this new generation flipped the script to unite and conquer the system.

If in an office the employees decided to team up, verses work against each other to demand better wages and working conditions from their managers or citizens decide to come together and hold leaders accountable for making their countries better, then maybe Jordan, Barkley and Magic would let Lebron be. He hasn’t retired thrice, or spat on a fan. He just made a decision, a brilliant one.