Good to see this wasn't Cleveland last night. Kevin Bacon can rest now - all is now well. Thankfully, our long national nightmare is over - LeBron James is one of THREE members of the Miami Heat. But before we all move our thoughts toward Baseball (where it should be), a few thoughts about this disgraceful farce known as NBA free agency:

1. Conspiracy/Collusion. I understand this take causes a lot of anger here at TSN, but this is just too damn convenient. Sorry folks, but the NBA is opening itself up for a charge of conspiracy or collusion. All three of the big free agents go to South Beach? Nobody's gonna convince me that this decision wasn't made a long time ago - and that my friends is COLLUSION any way you want to look at it. Hell, the union alone had to be convinced to allow this because there was just too damn much money left on the table.

2. Competition. Look, I get it - Boston's group is long in the tooth, Cleveland couldn't get the pieces it needed, Orlando and Chicago just doesn't have the maturity, New York can't attract flies, and New Jersey is in disarray for the next few years, so the NBA needed a marquee team in a marquee city to "step up". Guess Stern and/or the big three (James, Wade, Bosh) decided it was Miami. I'm sorry, but I believe that this was decided a while ago, not yesterday morning.

3. Union. I'm wondering if the union will allow two of its three biggest stars to take a pay cut in order to accomodate this. Remember, the Red Sox tried this with Alex Rodriguez and the union said "hell no", then one day later he went to the Yankees. This will be interesting. If the Union doesn't make a peep, then I have to wonder where their loyalties are.

4. Bandwagon fans. I wonder how long it will take for these losers to be donning their Heat gear? Hey Bandwagons, stick with one team and support them through and through. You are the problem with sports!

5. Media. You "Insiders" look stupid as hell. Oh wait, you are! You got manipulated and punked by three players for two and a half years. You guys are seriously gullible and all of you should be fired. Oh, and Stephen A. Smith, you might have got it right ten days ago, but your still a joke! However you do get credit for admitting that you've been acting like an a$$ for years and it took moms to lecture you and work on straightening out.

This will be sickening beyond belief - now we have to see which celebrities are sitting in the seats at Heat games. Can we just watch Basketball? If I can't afford tickets to the game, I sure as hell don't care whose sitting in the seats. Hey ESPiN, keep the cameras on the floor you jacka$$es!

Oh yeah ESPN, nice freaking job taking 27 minutes to get LeBron to say where he was going. Hey Jim Gray, nice hard hitting questions (Lebron, do you still bite your fingernails?). Dude if you're coming to Sacramento for five to ten games to work with the Kings, don't bother - YOU SUCK!

Oh yeah, to those of you media hacks in New York who did everything you could to get Lebron to the Knicks, well I have something for you:

6. Since its obvious that next June Lakers/Heat will be the finals, how do you see it panning out? I heard take last night that made sense, the Lakers could keep the Heat shut down (Gasol handles Bosh, Artest handles LeBron, and Kobe takes Wade).

7. Dan Gilbert, you've got a brass set! While I think that you're entitled to your opinion (I kinda of agree) and what you said was very funny, you could have taken the high road and wished James well. LeBron James made you a helluva lot of money, thank him and move on. James could have been a little more complimentary of Cleveland on his way out the door by the way...

8. Hey ESPN, I'm not done with you yet. In case you haven't noticed there's this other game with a ball and a bat, and they have some pretty good action going on, you might want to catch it - it's called BASEBALL! Pay attention to it because its got a lot of good things going on there. Way to sacrifice part of a great season in order to spend two months speculating on something that was decided long ago you clowns!

9. Lebron James. You made your deal with the devil - now live with it. I don't want to hear how you look disappointed by fans reactions. You played this for almost three years. By the way Lebron Modell, you look like you put on a few pounds. Time to get to the gym!

10. New York Knicks. Did you really send Isiah Thomas to make a last minute pitch to Lebron for you? You folks are pathetic!

11. Last thing and this is to my non-obnoxious friends in Cleveland - you are better off. LeBron James played with your emotions for three years. Its time to move on. Count me in as a guy who will root for you good fans every chance I get, so long as you don't ask me to root for Ohio State.

Get ready for two, maybe three years of Laker/Heat finals, Christmas games, and every Sunday afternoon game from January through April because that's the way this is being set up.

Gotta go now - at least this Free Agency farce is over - kinda like a wave of nausea. Peace and ranting forever...