You shouldn't let it negate the emotions you felt when he played for your team.
There are players who have no allegiance to the city. They're not out in the restaurants or clubs. They're not volunteering with city's charities. So when they leave for more money it's just not that big a deal.
Some of my heroes as a kid were Detroit Tigers baseball players like Al Kaline, Willie Horton and Mickey Lolich who spent their entire careers with the team. The city rewarded whatever money they might have passed up with business success after they were done playing.
Vinnie 'the microwave' Johnson from the Detroit Pistons started a auto parts company after his playing career and has made hundreds of millions of dollars. He was from Brooklyn and could easily have returned there to equal opportunities in business.
for the life of me, I can't figure why people care about multimillionaires playing games with other multimillionaires, in teams owned by billionairs.
How to people get excited by that? Why does anyone care, let alone get emotional if some millionaire playing a game paid by a billionaire, should come or go?
Weird.