LeBron to wait until Wednesday to decide

[Mr.Bottomtooth]

Sources say LeBron plans to wait until after 3-day Nike camp in Akron is over to announce decision. Ends Wed. nite
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[DUNCANownsKOBE2]

Originally he was going to decide by Monday.
Now it's going to be pushed back two days to Wednesday.

Something tells me this is the start of a trend from an attention whore who can't get enough of being coveted by every city he visits.

[Giuseppe]

They'll leak it Tuesday, mid-morning to catch the Media cycle.

Hope he stays home, all alone. Same with fuckface down in Florida.

[8FOR!3]

I don't blame him. Wait til you're out of Ohio to announce you're no longer a Cav.

[BlackSwordsMan]

gimme dat lebron

[Cane]

Yea, Lebron's gotta be heading out of Cleveland if he's delaying this even further although who knows which sources are accurate.

If he really wanted to stay with the Cavs he wouldn't be having this media circus and wouldn't care to wait until after his local clinic is over or not.

[monosylab1k]

More like he'll wait till Wednesday to announce the date/time of the press conference where he announces his decision. Along with the after party.

[DUNCANownsKOBE2]

I think we get an announcement on Tuesday saying it's been pushed back to Friday. I'd be surprised if he's ready to sign with a team on July 8th. He knows the free agent dominoes don't fall until he signs somewhere and he loves being able to think he's bigger than the game or the league itself.

[Roddy Beaubois]

Good, more time for Cuban and Donnie to convince him to come to Dallas.

[DUNCANownsKOBE2]

They should worry about him picking up the phone first.

[Roddy Beaubois]

They should worry about him picking up the phone first.

Jason Kidd has already talked to him. :stirpot:

[DUNCANownsKOBE2]

Jason Kidd has already talked to him. :stirpot:


You said Cuban and Donnie brah

[spursfan1000]

Either means he is a attention whore, or he is waiting till after he leaves Ohio.

[Roddy Beaubois]

You said Cuban and Donnie brah

Kidd plants the seed, Cuban seals the deal.
Donnie can just sit there and jerk off to 2011 NBA draft prospects.

[bostonguy]

Bron is lock to stay a Cav.

[spursballer21]

he is gonna wait till the last day.mark my words

[Basketballgirl25]

well here's what I get from it he either is leaving the Cavs, he wants people to think he might be thinking he is leaving the Cavs when he really isn't, he doesn't want the media attention, or he want's attention. All these could be one.

[MavDynasty]

well here's what I get from it he either is leaving the Cavs, he wants people to think he might be thinking he is leaving the Cavs when he really isn't, he doesn't want the media attention, or he want's attention. All these could be one.

stop posting

[The Batman]

Espn, Twitter, and other media outlets have played a big part in ruining the game of basketball

[spursfan1000]

he is gonna wait till the last day.mark my words


I'm pretty sure people will start not to care if he does wait till last day.

[Chillen]

We all know players can't sign contracts officially until Thursday of next week, so wether he is leaning towards resigning with the Cavaliers or signing with the Bulls, Heat or Knicks remains an open question. He probably knows the answer but might want to just think it over for a couple of days to be entirely sure. The camp is probably the reason he has not commited to a team since if it's Chicago, Miami, or New York it would upset the people at the camp in Akron, Ohio. He also probably does like the media attention this is getting, and players can't sign till Thurday anyway so I would expect this to drag out a little more. Bottom line, LeBron knows where he will play next season and he wants to make the right decision since he want to go to a team that will help him win his first NBA championship.

[Basketballgirl25]

We all know players can't sign contracts officially until Thursday of next week, so wether he is leaning towards resigning with the Cavaliers or signing with the Bulls, Heat or Knicks remains an open question. He probably knows the answer but might want to just think it over for a couple of days to be entirely sure. The camp is probably the reason he has not commited to a team since if it's Chicago, Miami, or New York it would upset the people at the camp in Akron, Ohio. He also probably does like the media attention this is getting, and players can't sign till Thurday anyway so I would expect this to drag out a little more. Bottom line, LeBron knows where he will play next season and he wants to make the right decision since he want to go to a team that will help him win his first NBA championship.

true that:toast

[Roddy Beaubois]

true that:toast

post a bit less

[Basketballgirl25]

post a bit less

you love me you know it

[sribb43]

He will be holding a press conference at Cowboys Stadium on Wednesday. 100,000 people will show up and he will say he isnt coming to Dallas

[Basketballgirl25]

He will be holding a press conference at Cowboys Stadium on Wednesday. 100,000 people will show up and he will say he isnt coming to Dallas

haha, if he did that you got to admit it would be funny, would be even funnier if he had a press conference at MSG and told people he was going to the Nets, although both these things won't happen because he will stay with Cavs

[Dex]

And it starts....

[Red Hawk #21]

I swear I knew he was gunna do this. Lebron is a fucking attention whore, just make up your fucking mind already.

[GuerillaBlack]

LeBron will announce he's staying in Cleveland during the camp.

[florige]

LeBron will announce he's staying in Cleveland during the camp.

I think so too. I think him, Wade, and Bosh, are just screwing around with the media tbh. I think Bosh will wind up in Chicago, and Wade and James will stay put. Those two fags want to be liked. James I think is loyal, but he has turned into a attention queen as well.

[23LeBronJames23]

Why the hell for LeBron would stay in Cleveland for?

[ALWAYS bet on BLACK]

Absolutely.


From slavery to riches.

These blacks are now the envy of you white boys, why shouldnt they eat up the attention and money you pay them.

You are the same fucks who thank them for fucking your daughters and wives.

Pathetic.

[bostonguy]

$$$ talks at the end of the day. I just don't see Bron passing up that max deal from the Cavs. Now if he cared more about winning, he bolts Cleveland because that team isn't doing shit for the next couple of seasons. They have no #2 guy, no tradeable assets, a lame ass head coach, no cap space in the near future, etc etc. Cavs are going to have to get lucky in the draft and get some major steals.

[Basketballgirl25]

$$$ talks at the end of the day. I just don't see Bron passing up that max deal from the Cavs. Now if he cared more about winning, he bolts Cleveland because that team isn't doing shit for the next couple of seasons. They have no #2 guy, no tradeable assets, a lame ass head coach, no cap space in the near future, etc etc. Cavs are going to have to get lucky in the draft and get some major steals.

I wouldn't say Cavs have a lame ass head coach. I think one of the reasons Lebron will stay is because of the head coach, he might not stay with a team for long, but he is a pretty good coach. I agree with everything else you said about Cavs though.

[Bukefal]

He stays, but damnit why waiting longer.

God I cant wait, please get this free agency hysteria over with. It's too much, it's crazy.

[rayjayjohnson]

i heard lebron, wade and bosh are coming to join melo at denver, and were going to do it for $1M a season.

[Giuseppe]

Here's a fine article I found loitering Sose's Joint:


Cleveland ties could still bind LeBron

By Adrian Wojnarowski, Yahoo! Sports
13 hours, 55 minutes ago
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They turned that downtown office building into a public parade of billionaires and builders of dynasties, entertainment icons and what-are-they-doing-here Clippers. The big, wide world took turns marching into the heart of Cleveland to make dramatic presentations to a hometown hero in a T-shirt, shorts and sneakers.

Here was Team LeBron making the headquarters of James’ fledgling marketing company LRMR into the Grand Central Station of a city’s hope and heartbreak. And perhaps the Cavaliers showed why they best know the biggest free agent in sports history when they delivered a presentation designed as much to steal a 14-year-old away from a traveling baseball team than woo a self-proclaimed disciple of Warren Buffett.

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Cleveland fans implore LeBron James to stay with the Cavs.
(Jason Miller/AP)
Through it all, James’ old team probably played it perfectly. The Cavs understood their audience the best: LeBron James(notes) and his high school buddies, 25-year-olds trying to play the part of a global corporation but ultimately still reached at a meaningful level with cartoons and locker-room humor.

A week ago, most teams believed they were chasing the Chicago Bulls for James, but that’s flipped in the past days and hours. “My gut tells me Cleveland,” an executive in the James chase told Yahoo! Sports on Sunday. “From what I hear now, it his decision alone. No outside influences.”

Officials from teams who made these presentations went along with the charade, but some questioned the legitimacy of the process based on the kinds of questions that were thrown back to them. “It didn’t take long to realize you’re dealing with 25-year-old kids,” one source said.

Cleveland executives are still on edge, but privately feeling far more confident now than they did weeks ago. As much as anything, William Wesley has been muscled out of the process in the past week or so, with teams insisting that communication to James goes directly through his business manager Maverick Carter. So unnerved over World Wide Wes’ ubiquitous presence in the process, Carter had to go public to undermine Wesley’s credibility and proclaim his own power.

The wresting back of power into James’ Akron-based camp goes a long way to securing the Cavs’ chances for re-signing James. This could preserve James’ future with the Cavaliers, because those surrounding him will eagerly validate his decision to take more money, stay home and keep them all relevant in his career and life.

Team LeBron turned this courtship of presentations into a marketing tool for the breadth of his brand, into a visual of the heavy-hitter suitors ultimately being rebuffed out of James’ loyalty and love for Cleveland. This entire episode made for around-the-clock news and Twitter frenzy. From the offices of LRMR, James has delivered a relentless reminder that’s he’s the world’s most wanted man in high tops. He needed the threat of leaving, even if there was never truly the intent.

What’s more, James and his guys have ramped up the launch of a new personal website and foreshadowed it as the place to find out first the big news on his free-agent choice – one that possibly won’t be made until he’s done marketing the LeBron James Skills Camp in Akron through Wednesday.

In the end, the Cavs can still offer James the most money, and no city will celebrate his arrival more than Cleveland will rejoice his refusing to leave. Cleveland fans felt like they had lost him, like he was going to get swept away into the world beyond Northeast Ohio. Something changed in the playoffs. Always, there was a sense that if he left there, the onus would be on the organization; that it didn’t do enough, that it didn’t surround him with the proper talent. Only this time, the Cavs did. James’ no-show performance in Game 5 of the Eastern Conference semifinals against Boston scarred him everywhere. He hadn’t delivered on the burden of an MVP, and suddenly the narrative of the story had dramatically changed.

Coach Mike Brown was fired, general manager Danny Ferry was pushed out and an awkward pursuit of Tom Izzo ensued under owner Dan Gilbert’s watch. Everything about James’ future in Cleveland felt so flimsy. In the end, Gilbert did get right the hiring of Byron Scott as coach, a man with an ability to make people feel confident about situations, to feel confidence in his presence.

Despite sources saying Scott’s old New Jersey point guard Jason Kidd(notes) didn’t back down from past criticisms when called by Cleveland officials, the unwavering praise of Chris Paul(notes) went a long way with the Cavs. Scott is a smart coach for James, a balance of old-school sensibility with a willingness to give his superstars complete freedom to dictate terms on the floor.

For all the New Jersey Nets’ promises of world treasures, the flashing of Pat Riley’s rings, the young talent of the Bulls and the calling of Madison Square Garden, this process has made some suitors skeptical of James’ seriousness. Even so, all the teams have to tell their fans that they had a great shot and wowed him and his buddies in the presentations.

Armed with a commitment from Amar’e Stoudemire(notes), the Knicks sent two executives to Cleveland on Saturday to run some cap numbers past James’ agent Leon Rose. James’ people have privately described the Knicks as a long shot, but New York has wisely tried to stay aggressive selling itself. For now, the Knicks are the one team with an All-Star caliber forward on the way.

The Knicks are willing to pay Stoudemire $100 million, something no one else with cap space is willing to do. New Jersey would take Stoudemire if James also promises to sign, a source said, but won’t meet his demands for a maximum contract as a solitary commitment.

Still, mostly this may turn out to be an exercise in lavishing LeBron James with what he craves the most: a lustful longing for his greatness. Deep down, LeBron had to walk out of those offices with an understanding that no one can make him a billionaire and no one can promise a circumstance much better than what he’s had in Cleveland these past seven seasons. For him to leave, there would be so much pressure to deliver a championship upon arrival, to honor the biggest free-agency score in history. And it leaves to you wonder whether he truly wants any of that.

LeBron James has always sold his hopes of wanting to conquer the world, of turning into a historically transcendent athlete and icon. All that sounds wonderful, but here’s what everyone does know: He’s going to be a wildly successful basketball player, maybe a five- or six-time MVP and, barring misfortune, an NBA champion.

And maybe most of all now, you get the idea that James is an overgrown teenager getting a few laughs with his buddies, driving home to Akron from this cattle call in Cleveland to watch cartoons, play video games and kill some time until he gives the nod to post the big news that maybe the rest of us should’ve known all along: He’s home.