The NBA is a business. How many times have you heard that over the past week?
Deep down fans know it is another billion-dollar corporation. Players make more money than fans can imagine. Ownership makes even more. It is a job and not always one in which players get to choose where they work. A player's loyalty to a franchise comes from the relationships he builds within his community, and even then he is under constant reminder that it could all be ripped away from him at a moment's notice.
So never get too close.