Alonzo Mourning is a Heat lifer, so it’s no surprise that he’s still baffled by LeBron James’ decision to bolt South Beach for Cleveland.
The Miami Heat vice-president followed Pat Riley in ripping James for leaving the Heat and a ‘Dynasty.”
We had a great team for four years straight, and the reason why we had a great team was not just because we had the best player on the planet, it’s because we had the best team that bought into a culture.
How do you stop buying into that? If you got there four years in a row, why not get back there four more times? And then four more times? Why not get back there 10 years in a row? It’s doable. And Pat Riley wasn’t gonna stop bringing pieces in to complement, you know? So why walk away from a dynasty?
Mourning continued to struggle with James leaving Miami.
It’s very difficult to even think about walking away from something like that. How do you walk away?
