The Fallout

As the three guys, 25, 26, and 28 years old, sat in the midst of the party at American Airlines Arena, they looked like a bunch of 18-year-olds.

They didn't just get an invite to their first college party.

They were the main attraction.

Wade, Bosh, and James have acted like kids all along. They were like three high school kids, gallivanting and eating up all the attention that the adults were willing to feed them. They did their best to keep the spotlight on them, posting pictures of themselves, like this one, like teenage girls taking a million Photo Booth shots on their new Macbook and uploading them to Facebook.

And so in the end, it turned into what in essence was similar to a bunch of high school kids making a college decision. The two best friends, Dwayne and Chris, decided they really wanted to go to school together. But while they had made the decision, their other best friend, LeBron, was away at camp.

They tried to convince him to go away for school. He wasn't sure. He had grown up in his hometown. All his best friends were there. He was most popular in high school, and even called the King...of Homecoming and Prom.

But his best friends were never a good influence on him. For years, they told him he had to get out of his little town. Move on to bigger things, where he could have more than just love and adoration.

It all started when they took a trip to China and had the perfect time together. Some said they decided then that they had to go to college together. It would be just like the trip to China! 

So, finally, after months and months, LeBron made his decision.

He tried to be a good guy about it but all his friends saw him as a traitor, leaving them behind and only caring about himself in the process. He chose them over us. They untagged him in all their Facebook pictures, burned all of his clothes he had left at their houses. The school's principal even sent out a letter saying he quit on all of them.

In the end, that's what this really is. Three best friends deciding to go to the party school in South Beach. It's James taking the easy way out, going to school with two of his best friends, so he won't have to do all the work alone, so that they'll help him write his papers and get good grades.

It's three men well into their twenties acting like 18-year-olds. They're the kids who leave high school acting as if they're the coolest, saying that their choice was the best and they will do better than everyone else. But when they go to college, they're the three kids that walk around together with an air of arrogance, the ones everyone can't stand.

It's James throwing away all of the friendships he had made over the course of seven years. But you know what's funny, sometimes the kid that was "Mr. Everything" in high school, doesn't do so well in college. Sometimes he even ends up needing to go home.

Well, James can't go home now.

Cleveland won't have him back. But maybe, one day, he'll realize he made a mistake. That those "best friends" weren't as good of friends as he thought. That those good grades he got by having them write the last page of his paper or take every class with him, wouldn't be as fulfilling as doing it by himself.

James' fans called themselves 'Witnesses.' Now all he can do is 'witness' the fallout from his decision.