Lebron James (Los Angeles Lakers)

[NFBuck]

As a Boston fan I'm loving this news!!

Sources: Celtics targeting Miller - NBA - Yahoo! Sports

What does that have to do with LeBron James?

 

[Crazed Boiler]

Nothing but I figured if I posted a seperate thread somebody would say there was already a thread and since we was talking about free agents I put it in here.

 

[Piney]

Interesting LeBron free agency article...

Team LeBron reaches for prominence - NBA - Yahoo! Sports

It?s clear why advisor William Wesley has been so relentless courting suitors with conditions and circumstances with which they can secure LeBron James(notes): For basketball?s biggest dealmaker, there?s little personal benefit to James re-signing with the Cleveland Cavaliers. To team executives in the chase and those familiar with the dynamics of James? inner circle, World Wide Wes? agenda is clear: Get LeBron out of Cleveland and push himself into a prominent place of power.
To be considered the architect of the sport?s grandest transaction, World Wide Wes needs James out of the clutches of the Cavaliers.

 

[exhawg]

Interesting LeBron free agency article...

Team LeBron reaches for prominence - NBA - Yahoo! Sports

So from that article it sounds like someone needs to cap Worldwide Wes in the next couple days and we'll be set.

 

[OH10]

So from that article it sounds like someone needs to cap Worldwide Wes in the next couple days and we'll be set.

Would any NE Ohio jury convict?

Like I've said with Art Modell, you'd be more likely to get a unanimous verdict for acquittal rather than conviction. It doesn't matter if you have 100 eyewitnesses, DNA evidence, a confession and a videotape.

 

[billmac91]

So from that article it sounds like someone needs to cap Worldwide Wes in the next couple days and we'll be set.

The flip-side is Maverick Carter was "alledgedly" behnd the David Geffen ownership plan in L.A. with the Clippers. Get Geffen in and Sterling out, LeBron signs with the Clippers, and Maverick Carter is a hero while LeBron dominates L.A. with Kobe until Kobe fades away.

Just seems like all these guys are lining up their ducks, hoping LeBron chooses the city they've put time into. Right now you have to think Worldwide is pushing Chicago hard...every leak out their has Wes pushing the Bulls. The entourage most likely wants Cleveland or a city they've been putting some groundwork into, such as the Clippers.

 

[exhawg]

The flip-side is Maverick Carter was "alledgedly" behnd the David Geffen ownership plan in L.A. with the Clippers. Get Geffen in and Sterling out, LeBron signs with the Clippers, and Maverick Carter is a hero while LeBron dominates L.A. with Kobe until Kobe fades away.

Just seems like all these guys are lining up their ducks, hoping LeBron chooses the city they've put time into. Right now you have to think Worldwide is pushing Chicago hard...every leak out their has Wes pushing the Bulls. The entourage most likely wants Cleveland or a city they've been putting some groundwork into, such as the Clippers.

I just can't picture Lebron going to LA to play in the same arena that Kobe plays in.

 

[y0yoyoin]

i cannot wait till all this fucking bullshit is over...with or without lebron

 

[LitlBuck]

Question and sorry if this has been asked and answered in this thread but what if James does decide to leave would he be willing to at least do a sign and trade with the Cavaliers and how Would that work player/moneywise with the other team or would they have to get a third team involved

 

[y0yoyoin]

Question and sorry if this has been asked and answered in this thread but what if James does decide to leave would he be willing to at least do a sign and trade with the Cavaliers and how Would that work player/moneywise with the other team or would they have to get a third team involved

read a quote today that the cavs have no interest in a sign and trade which eliminates Dallas's chances of landing lebron since they are over the cap

 

[tsteele316]

The cavs aren't interested in a sign and trade because it doesn't benefit them at all. If they trade him to a team that doesn't have the cap space they have to get around $15 million back in return. They aren't going to take that on without lebron. Look at the teams under the cap that he may go to, not a single one has anything of value to make a trade worthwhile. There is no motivation whatsoever for the cavs to agree to a sign and trade.

 

[Piney]

The cavs aren't interested in a sign and trade because it doesn't benefit them at all. If they trade him to a team that doesn't have the cap space they have to get around $15 million back in return. They aren't going to take that on without lebron. Look at the teams under the cap that he may go to, not a single one has anything of value to make a trade worthwhile. There is no motivation whatsoever for the cavs to agree to a sign and trade.

To tag along with what tsteele is saying.

What do the Cavs do if LeBron leaves? Do you really think the Cavs have a team that can make the playoffs? So if LeBron leaves the Cavs are going to revert back to what they were before LeBron. They will try to get rid of anyone making any sort of money. Dan Gilbert ain't stupid. Without LeBron the Cavs won't draw 8,000 per game and he will lose money hand over fist. The only players that will remain on the Cavs are the contracts they won't be able to trade like Mo Williams and Jamison.

So, unless the sign & trade targets are actually going to send us real talent (ie Chicago, you send us Rose and/or Dallas sends us Terry & Dirk) the Cavs have no motivation whatsoever to take ANY salary back in a sign & trade unless they are giving us their 1st round draft picks for the next 10 years AND they have a Knicks first rounder in the future to give us too.

 

[BuckeyeNation27]

And any sign & trade that would make it worth while for the Cavs wouldn't be worth it for Lebron. If he wants to go to a team with no talent left after the trade, he'd be better off staying in Cleveland.

 

[Piney]

And any sign & trade that would make it worth while for the Cavs wouldn't be worth it for Lebron. If he wants to go to a team with no talent left after the trade, he'd be better off staying in Cleveland.

That's the idea

FYI - Looks like the Cavs found their new coach... Brian Shaw. Just a matter of time til it is announced as twitter is abuzz about him putting together a staff of assistants at this moment while he works out the contract details.

 

[y0yoyoin]

i actually perfer him over scott because he knows the triangle offense better...but were still getting an assistant with no head coaching experience...which we had for the last 5 or so years....its all a cluster fuck....hopefully sign lebron and ride the shit storm out for the next 3 years