“LeBron, you can just see – I think anyways – he has a certain calmness to him. Sort of that calmness, confidence, leadership. LeBron James, he doesn’t bite his nails anymore. I don’t know if anybody ever noticed that, but he doesn’t. I think that’s for a reason. He just feels like the veteran leader… So, we got to get four more” — Dan Gilbert on LeBron via ESPN.com
Rewind to 2014 when LeBron returned but there were already plenty of rumors about it already being decided. After Wade showed that his physical decline was irreversible, or so we thought, and Bosh still proved incapable of being an equal member of the Big Three as they lost in six games to the Spurs in the 2014 NBA Finals.