James needed to experience a different …

James needed to experience a different way of doing things. He needed an organization to tell him “no” sometimes. He needed to learn how to win. Two titles in four years delivered all of that, and Cleveland ultimately benefited from it, too. It may not have felt like it at the time, but Miami and Cleveland both won on July 8, 2010. Cleveland lost everything it had that night in order to win so much more six years later. We just didn’t know it at the time. LeBron was right. Everybody won because of it.