Going home. It’s something that we all have to do now and again. Whether it’s for a weekend or for the rest of your life, it’s like the old saying goes.
There’s no place like home.
Now LeBron James made going home famous but we all do it. Other NBA players do it, one example is Kyle O’Quinn who is going back to New York after a Sign-And-trade from the Orlando Magic to the Knicks. And even though he’s leaving Orlando, a place that has treated him well. He’s excited to go back home.
“I love everybody there [in Orlando],” the 6-foot-10 big man said in a telephone interview Sunday. “I love my whole team: the GM on down to the guy that cleans the bathrooms. I loved everybody there, and I think it was a mutual feeling. It was the feeling that I loved every day coming to work. So it’ll be definitely different going to the Knicks, but this is what you have to deal with as far as being in this business.
“It was a long-term deal. That played a big part. When I found out I was going home, of course I was excited to be around my mom and my dad and my sister. … And it was just a good opportunity for me to possibly get minutes, play a bigger role, and hopefully I can flourish in it.“
Now the only way I can feel what he’s feeling is 1. I need to be an NBA player. And 2. Have a team in London that’s on par with the NBA.
But you can’t hate the decision. He’s going to a worse team in my opinion, but it’s home and that is where the heart is.
