LeBron James was the first party to broach the subject of forming a Big 3 with Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh with the Miami Heat in 2010.

James met with Wade and Bosh in a secret meeting in Cleveland.

Up until that point, Wade had been relaying to Miami management there was no way James would be interested in joining them with the Heat.

Wade went to James with the idea of taking less money to include Haslem, but James refused. Wade volunteered to take a salary hit alone to accommodate Haslem.

The Heat also would not have been in a position to sign all three players if Lamar Odom had taken Pat Riley's 2009 offer to Lamar Odom.