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haha wow, i cant believe that really happened. i guess nothing should be surprising when it comes to the NBA.
All this money to a bunch of second tier FAs is going to drive up the price of the first tier beyond reason. We should stay out of it.
haha wow, i cant believe that really happened. i guess nothing should be surprising when it comes to the NBA.
If the minimum contract were a bit lower, I'd be calling a couple of teams asking if they could use a 39 year old six footer with a good outside shot.
Why? First tier players are already locked in to get max contracts.
Stump is right. What should have been said is that all this money given to 2nd tier FAs is going to raise the price of the 3rd tier (and perhaps the 4th), which is who the Spurs are going to be choosing from.
james representives having second meeting with knicks.........
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James isn't even gonna make his intentions known until Thursday or so, supposedly. He's got a basketball camp in Cleveland and he wants that to be over with before he says anything, since it'd completely kill the camp should he say anything before or during (or so says his fanboy Broussard).
He's leaving. I mean com'on why not announce he's staying before the camp? Dude is gone.
Did anybody actually expect Lebron to stay in Cleveland?..
My gut tells me the Nets.
As far as what I've heard from the sales pitches, Chicago and New Jersey hit the ball out of the park and I'd put my money on Wade in Chicago and James in Jersey -- That Jordan challenge is exactly something that would motivate Wade (even if it being home and possessing good young talent was intriguing enough) and Prokhorov pitching the 'global icon' thing and suggesting he could make LeBron a billionaire was exactly the type of pitch to land James, IMO.
I'm not certain of the moves but that's what my gut's telling me at the moment.
Lebron has a flare for the dramatics. Its never over til its over.
I agree that he's a media and attention , but I really can't imagine him staying in Cleveland..
Why wouldn't he stay? Granted the Cavs don't have the cap room or players to get better, but I just can't see Bron turning down all that max money from his own team. He is a lock to stay a Cav. It is more evident now than ever that he is staying. He is just enjoying the spotlight screwing with other teams.
Cleveland ties could still bind LeBron
http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news?slu...eeagency070410
Here's some more on that:
LeBron expected to wait until after camp to deliver decision
very intersting after the knicks offered amare the max and amare looks like he will go there
james reps have a meeting with them again
also amare says he will look at nets..
james must want to team up with amare LOL
but if he teams up with amare he knows he is the guy not amare
wade kids live in bulls land
would not suppose me to see him there
LeBron could have already had that -- the Cavs backed out of a trade with Phoenix that would have sent them Amare last season.
I think he'll stay with the Cavaliers and always have. The only thing that ever gave me pause was the last few games of the Celtics series.
I think Wojnaorowski's column today nailed it. He's not going anywhere and he never was. This was all for show, for attention. You don't think he's enjoying every last second of this? This story is so big that it's not only the talk of the entire sports world (at least in North America; there is that little thing called the World Cup still going), it's actually transcended sports, which is virtually unheard of barring off playing surface controversy, like the Bryant rape case or the Woods scandal.
These were my predictions on the eve of free agency...
The two Bulls ones were/are the ones I was/am least confident in. I just couldn't see them striking out entirely, given how appealing their situation is, so I put Johnson and Boozer their almost by default.James: Cavaliers
Wade: Heat
Bosh: Heat
Johnson: Bulls
Nowitzki: Mavericks
Stoudemire: Knicks
Boozer: Bulls
Lee: Nets
Pierce: Celtics
Allen: Celtics
I hope he doesn't stay in Cleveland, I would seriously question his desire to win..
I disagree, stay in Cleveland and develop a winner there.
Did you say the same thing in 2000 about Tim Duncan?
How? They're over the cap and they're not winning with the team as constructed.
I think he wants to win, but wants to do so with the Cavs. It would probably be more meaningful to him and would be more beneficial for his legacy.
I'm predicting he signs a three-year deal (maybe a fourth season at his option), so that by the end of it he'll have given them ten years. Then, if by the end of that they still haven't won a championship, no one could blame him for leaving his hometown team. Also, he'll still be in his prime and have (in theory, at least) enough good years left to still win multiple championships.
I'm not saying he's not compe ive or driven, but I'm never gotten the sense that he wants it as bad as Jordan, Russell, West (only won one, but ultra compe ive), Johnson, Bird, Duncan, Bryant, etc. I think he wants to win because he knows ultimately, he'll have been a major disappointment if he doesn't end up in that class and he'll have no shot at being a global icon, either. Most likely, he needs a bunch of championships to even have a shot at that and becoming a billionaire.
Tim Duncan had already won a le with the Spurs when his Free Agency was up..
If Lebron had already won a le, at least he would have some hope..the Cavs have very little room to get better at this point, and while Ferry is gone, their management hasn't shown the ability to build a legit contender(they've been considered a contender the last 2 years, but pretty much entirely due to Lebron)..
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