5) LeBron James
Not a lot of professional athletes can get their own television special where they reveal to the world that they’re leaving the Cleveland Cavaliers and his home state of Ohio to “take his talents to South Beach.” But when you’re the greatest active basketball player and arguably one of the greatest of all-time, you can pretty much do whatever you want, wherever you want, for as much money as teams are capable of paying.
James parlayed “The Decision” on ESPN into a mega-deal with the Miami Heat, four straight trips to the NBA Finals as part of “The Big Three” with Dwayne Wade and Chris Bosh and back-to-back NBA Championships in 2012 and 2013 – AND the Cleveland Cavaliers still managed to get LeBron back in 2014 after he decided to leave Miami.
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