Source: Cavs reach 2-year deal with Lowe

[LnGrrrR]

Didn't see this anywhere so...

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=4392457


A source told ESPN.com that Powe will sign for the league minimum for players with three years of service -- $855,189. Cleveland will hold a team option for a second season at $915,852.
Sucks. You would think Boston would take a flyer on him for the league minimum. He could get to the line decently and was a good backup. Ah well.

[bostonguy]

Best of luck to Powe. He was one of my favs. Sucks he is going to the team I despise the most but I hope he recovers well from that acl injury and has a healthy season.

[Darthkiller]

lol Lowe?

[KidCongo]

Best of luck to Powe. He was one of my favs. Sucks he is going to the team I despise the most but I hope he recovers well from that acl injury and has a healthy season.

:toast To the Cavs beating Boston on the way to a championship.

[lil_penny]

Good pickup for the cavs.... other than his flopping lol

[IronMexican]

He's one of the best Sinker pitchers in the MLB. Dodgers should have tried harder to keep him.

[23LeBronJames23]

:toast to the cavs beating boston on the way to a championship.

+100000

[Mr.Bottomtooth]

He's one of the best Sinker pitchers in the MLB. Dodgers should have tried harder to keep him.

:lol

[spursfan1000]

Powe is a nice pickup, but it wont really change anything.

[bostonguy]

:toast To the Cavs beating Boston on the way to a championship.

:lmao:lmao:lmao

[ginobili's bald spot]

He's one of the best Sinker pitchers in the MLB. Dodgers should have tried harder to keep him.

Damn I was gonna do this same joke. :depressed

[spursfan1000]

:lmao:lmao:lmao

That would suck with it really happens :lol

[bostonguy]

That would suck with it really happens :lol

It won't. They still have issues with Orlando and they don't match up well at all with the Lakers if both teams were to meet in the finals. Not to mention, they still have to worry about the Celtics.

[LnGrrrR]

He's one of the best Sinker pitchers in the MLB. Dodgers should have tried harder to keep him.

Ironically, another underrated player that a Boston team let go. :)

[xtremesteven33]

Lowe??? :lmao

[45 bank shot]

this guy is a hundred times better than big fat baby.
a loss for Boston

[Texas_Ranger]

this guy is a hundred times better than big fat baby.
a loss for Boston

Yea. But he's injured till the all star break. And we really don't know if he'll be that good then.

[KSeal]

Powe was the only member of the Celtics I didn't despise with every fiber of my being. Now he is the only member of the Cavs I don't despise with every fiber of my being.

[Thunder Dan]

Rob Lowe?

http://images.buddytv.com/usrimages/usr9779/9779_rob-lowe.jpg

[Steve_Nash]

:toast To the Cavs beating Boston on the way to a championship.


I should get a ring because I told Kerr to trade Shaq for nothing.

[Steve_Nash]

O fuck I forgot rings suck I don't want one.

[Steve Kerr]

I should get a ring because I told Kerr to trade Shaq for nothing.


ssssshhhh you're not supposed to tell anyone.

[duncan228]

Leon Powe happy to remain in the East (http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news?slug=ap-cavaliers-powe&prov=ap&type=lgns)

Leon Powe once thought he was the nation’s top 10th-grade basketball player. Then he saw one of his AAU teammates play: LeBron James.

Powe asked his coach if James was in his graduating class. He was.

“Aww man,” Powe said. “There goes my No. 1 spot.”

He’ll gladly take a backup role to James again, as soon as his repaired left knee allows it. Powe signed a two-year deal with the Cleveland Cavaliers on Wednesday, even though he isn’t expected back on the court until sometime around the All-Star break. The Cavaliers are paying Powe the league minimum for a three-year veteran.

“The money is not the issue with me,” Powe said. “The issue is I want to get my knee back healthy and go out there and play basketball. The money will come.”

The Celtics let the 6-foot-8 forward leave following a third surgery on his left knee, this time to repair a torn ACL suffered in the playoffs. Powe is strengthening the knee in Los Angeles and should begin running in about a month. He is expected in Cleveland in two weeks to continue his rehab.

“It’s always tough leaving the place you started,” Powe said in a conference call on Thursday. “I gave them every opportunity to have me over there, which didn’t work out. It wasn’t my fault. I had to move on.”

Powe averaged 7.7 points and 4.9 rebounds in 70 games last season.

He is reuniting with James after the two stormed the country on AAU teams and at summer camps during their high school years. Powe, 25, watched James take over games long before he became an NBA superstar.

After Powe broke into the NBA alongside stars such as Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce and Ray Allen, Powe now joins James and Shaquille O’Neal.

“Shaq is one of the greatest players of all time and ‘Bron is going to be right there in that category,” Powe said. “Those are two great personalities. That’s the fun thing about playing with guys like them. They’re easy to get along with and it’s easy to play with them.”

By remaining in the Eastern Conference, Powe might not have to wait long for a reunion against his old team. The Cavaliers and Celtics are likely to again be two of the top teams in the Eastern Conference, and Powe admits he’s already dreaming of a postseason meeting.

“If that happens, that’s going to be fun for me,” he said. “I know Boston is a challenge, but our team, the Cavaliers got better and we’ll take on all challengers.”

[LnGrrrR]

Good luck to Powe, except against the Celtics, of course. :D