Somwhere - Pat Riley is sitting quietly in a Sunny Isles cafe sipping espresso, fresh pomade slicked back hair complying, contemplating how much the game has changed. From an era where players were expected to remain obedient to franchise/ownership - to an era where players take their respective destiny in their own hands - Pat Riley's old-school approach to controlling the players has failed.

In 2014/2015, Riley thought his conventional methodology would see Kang, Wade & Bosh rebound after that dreadful S.A. Finals series. Riley railed on about "staying w/ the process, retool, and come back stronger." But the wave of player/labor union empowerment was already in motion after Kang transcended polarities and smashed dualistic thinking like a deep, intensive, ayahuasca shamanic purging of old world paradigms.

The result? Neither Wade, Kang, nor Bosh are in Miami - and the player once thought to be the hallmark signature of modern franchise loyalty (Wade) has now joined the Cleveland Cavaliers in a stunning display of player empowerment and DGAF about old world norms, certain to vex purists who feel that players should stick with one team their entire lives out of bitterness towards their inability to break free from obedient mindstates that only benefit owners and not the players who were beholden to outdated norms that didn't serve their careers. You even have a guy like Ky the gawd taking matters into his own hands and requesting out of his contract to pursue his own ambitions - and Kang simply wishes him the best and shows respect to the organization for facilitating the trade -- knowing that he has Fathered this movement and all of these Kyries and Durants are his beloved sons.

So, after KD's "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em" move to G.S. - and the subsequent wave of players taking matters into their own hands -- "The Decision" will play out in history as a groundbreaking, paradigm shifting, Old World Order destroying move of unabashed boldness from a player carrying the cross and lighting the torch for a new era of labor rights and employment within The Association.

So in short, have you apologized to Lebron James for his genius vision in shifting the tectonic plates, obliterating Danny Gilberts and Donny Sterlings in his wake?

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