Professionals sports is one of the few areas where we tend to side with ownership over the employees. When Larry Hughes and I started doing the Bleav in Wizards podcast, there were more than a few people who clearly hadn’t gotten over Hughes leaving and going to the Cleveland Cavaliers after the 2004-05 season. They said some pretty terrible stuff about him as a person.
As we’ve addressed on the show numerous times, Hughes really liked playing in D.C. and did not want to leave the Washington Wizards. He said as much at the time and many of those teammates are still some of his closest friends from his time in the NBA.