re: Does playing for multiple teams diminish a player's accomplishments?

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A big supporter of staying loyal to a team and city. But what we often don't think about is that team being loyal back.
If a team isn't making a solid effort to improve, or if they just make bad decisions even, the player may have to leave.

It's like a marriage, if one side is loyal, but the other is not then it won't work out.

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Agree 100%. I'm not a big LeBron fan, and The Decision was obviously a horrendously stupid thing to do, but was he just supposed to spend his entire career with the Cavs because they drafted him despite the fact they had a horrible front office/ownership team and never surrounded him with decent talent?

Kobe was drafted in 1996 and the Lakers went out and got Shaq that same year. Later on they added guys like Glen Rice, Ron Harper, Rick Fox and Robert Horry, not to mention a GOAT coach in Phil Jackson. Then when he had a foot out the door several years later, they went out and got guys like Gasol and Odom.