The game plan doesn't change in a day

Elsa/NBAE/Getty Images The summer of 2010 was always about finding the team with the best vision of the future. Everything about LeBron James' free agency plan changed as the Cavaliers were eliminated by the Celtics: No way he'd head back to Cleveland after that. Right? Wrong. It's hard to say with certainty that anything changed at all. While it's hard to quantify the stress and disappointment in the bloodstream of the Cavaliers' organization, surely the biggest lesson of the loss is not that Cleveland is cursed. It's not that, in a fit of pique, the best player in the game is set to slam the door and never look back on Northeast Ohio. "It's all about winning to me," James said after the big loss, and it's believable. If there's a lesson from losing -- James has been savaged and scrutinized even in his hometown -- it's that winning is more important than ever. That's the analysis that matters. That's dependent on things ...