Heat: LeBron on possible free agency

[Cowboys_Wear_Spurs]

Lebron's staying. He is not going to the Clips. Nobody wants Jordan's contract. No one wants that chucker Crawford. No one wants that 5mil dollar Dudley contract.

Quit pipe dreaming.

[Clipper Nation]

Lebron's staying. He is not going to the Clips. Nobody wants Jordan's contract. No one wants that chucker Crawford. No one wants that 5mil dollar Dudley contract.

Quit pipe dreaming.

The Warriors were able to dump Biedrins and Jefferson to make room for Iggy.... I'm sure there'd be more demand for DJ, Jamal and even Dudley than those two bums

[Aztecfan03]

LeBron would still need to carry the load there, and that would defeat the purpose of leaving Miami. Besides, Cubans comments on Sterling might have pissed off a lot of Negro players. He might have a hard time getting anyone to come.

Have you looked at New York's cap situation man? There are only two real options for leaving Miami:

1. Dallas
2. Washington

If Duncan opts out and signs for the minimum the Spurs become option #3.

Not seeing him leave Miami for any of those situations.

Why is djohn trying to argue?

[Seventyniner]

If LeBron sees Finals losses as detrimental to his legacy, he very well could go to the West. Without LeBron, it's hard to see any East champ taking more than one game from the West champ.

[Malik Hairston]

Lebron doesn't care about Finals losses, that's the stupidest stat that anybody actually uses to argue a point, tbh(not referring to the poster above me, but I've seen a lot of people use it, over the years)..losing in the Finals being worse than not making it to the Finals makes absolutely no sense..

Anyways, Lebron isn't leaving Miami, tbh, the alternative, realistic destinations are ty..he's not going to publicly say he's staying in Miami, yet, as he has all the leverage and he's probably hoping Wade opts out and signs for less, since that's the only chance they have at any type of flexibility, especially knowing that Mickey Arison isn't Prokhorov..

Lebron is still by far the best player in the league, and Bosh is still a capable #2 guy..they just need to figure out Wade's role and situation..if he agrees to sign for less and they can manage some flexibility, they'll need to sign a PG and an athlete for the perimeter..if Miami had a Danny Green, they would be back on top of the league(there aren't many players that fit that mould, to be fair)..

[Cowboys_Wear_Spurs]

The Warriors were able to dump Biedrins and Jefferson to make room for Iggy.... I'm sure there'd be more demand for DJ, Jamal and even Dudley than those two bums

Utah needed salaries to get to the league minimum and that is the reason they took those two contracts plus 3 picks.

Suns are probably the only team in need of Jordan's service and have the cap space to absorb this trade. Defensive centers with little to none offensive skills are not in high demand. Just ask Asik and the Rockets.

Jamal Crawford is a selfish player and a chucker. After seeing the Spurs win this season playing team ball with Parker being invisible for 3 out of the 4 series, most teams are going to want to avoid players like Crawford. Just look what happen to the Pacers after they trade for Evans (a me type of player).

Clippers aren't getting Lebron, plain and simple.

[Malik Hairston]

If Miami can get a little flexibility, they should hope to get some of these players on ring-chasing deals IMO: Livingston, Tolliver, Miles, Carter, Marion, Harris, Blake, Meeks, Miller, Udrih, Williams..

[djohn2oo8]

Lebron doesn't care about Finals losses, that's the stupidest stat that anybody actually uses to argue a point, tbh(not referring to the poster above me, but I've seen a lot of people use it, over the years)..losing in the Finals being worse than not making it to the Finals makes absolutely no sense..

Anyways, Lebron isn't leaving Miami, tbh, the alternative, realistic destinations are ty..he's not going to publicly say he's staying in Miami, yet, as he has all the leverage and he's probably hoping Wade opts out and signs for less, since that's the only chance they have at any type of flexibility, especially knowing that Mickey Arison isn't Prokhorov..

Lebron is still by far the best player in the league, and Bosh is still a capable #2 guy..they just need to figure out Wade's role and situation..if he agrees to sign for less and they can manage some flexibility, they'll need to sign a PG and an athlete for the perimeter..if Miami had a Danny Green, they would be back on top of the league(there aren't many players that fit that mould, to be fair)..

Wade has no incentive to take less money.

[Gummi Clutch]

Wade has no incentive to take less money.

Your quoting someone that spends half his day slobbing over lebron's ...the guy is sorry tbh... don't know why he still pretends to be a spurs fan

[Malik Hairston]

If I was Wade, I wouldn't take less money, because he'll never get a payday like this again, obviously..also, he sees Kobe getting 25 per year as an inferior player, so that would be tough to swallow for Wade..

But we'll see how badly he still wants to win, tbh..

[JoeTait75]

He should come back to Cleveland. I don't think he will- at least not yet. But he should.

[JoeTait75]

BS. It's a plant out of CT. Christ, use your ing head, man. Same as the Melo to FL. story was. They're jerkin' your chain, selling their "papers" & wampum.

GD!!!

ESPN doesn't want LeBron to go back to Cleveland because their "personalities" don't want to come to Cleveland to cover his games, Cully. It's that simple.

[Malik Hairston]

Lebron won't came back to play for a Dan Gilbert-owned team after Lebron made all those anti-Sterling remarks, tbh..

[Raven]

"I just want to win" is only said by people who've historically not acted that way. James doesn't have to say that. He's not going to play for a team where his minutes and contributions are diminished. He's going to either stay with Miami or he's going to go to New York. I highly doubt Chicago gets him, since they aren't winning anything and Rose will reinjure after game 3 again. Cleveland wouldn't be a bad fit for him, but Dan Gilbert pretty much screwed the pooch on that, and Cleveland fans on him when he left.

In this order:

1. Miami
2. NY
3. LA Clippers
4. LA Lakers
5. Dallas Mavericks
6. Portland Trailblazers (with Lillard and Aldridge, would be a of a thing)

ny can't even sign patty mills and they are going to sign lebron? possible in theory, but ..

[Seventyniner]

Lebron doesn't care about Finals losses, that's the stupidest stat that anybody actually uses to argue a point, tbh(not referring to the poster above me, but I've seen a lot of people use it, over the years)..losing in the Finals being worse than not making it to the Finals makes absolutely no sense..

I agree. I meant that seeing Finals losses as negatives compared to losses in earlier rounds (as dumb as it sounds) is about the only way LeBron heads West.

I still see 2013 as the 6th-best season in Spurs franchise history. Losing game 7 of the Finals is better than any other non-championship outcome.

[Double-Up]

"I just want to win" is only said by people who've historically not acted that way. James doesn't have to say that. He's not going to play for a team where his minutes and contributions are diminished. He's going to either stay with Miami or he's going to go to New York. I highly doubt Chicago gets him, since they aren't winning anything and Rose will reinjure after game 3 again. Cleveland wouldn't be a bad fit for him, but Dan Gilbert pretty much screwed the pooch on that, and Cleveland fans on him when he left.

In this order:

1. Miami
2. NY
3. LA Clippers
4. LA Lakers
5. Dallas Mavericks
6. Portland Trailblazers (with Lillard and Aldridge, would be a of a thing)

That list is a load of ...he should come to Houston before considering half those garbage ass teams.

[Ghazi]

Vegas has miami at -300

[Ghazi]

The young talent and potential of the Cavs isincredibly exaggerated.. They couldnt make the playoffs in a historically bad East

[Trill Clinton]

bron said after his vacation he would sit down with bosh and wade to discuss their future together. i think they're going to try to get wade to agree to opt out and re-sign for less. but wade isn't going for that, i wouldn't either and neither would bron or bosh. so its more than likely all 3 return.

[024]

Lebron should stay and see where things go next season. No one is going to challenge him in the East anyways so he'll have another shot in the finals. Then, he can always opt out and join the Spurs when Duncan and Ginobili retire after next season. Lebron loves being Magic Johnson and he can pass all he wants in Pop's system.

In all honestly, Pop's system truly fits Lebron's playstyle. Lebron can just pick up where Ginobili left off, although he'll probably want to start. There might be some tweaking involved since Lebron would require more touches and occasionally the ball will stick in his hands but that can easily be fixed by the current greatest coach in sports.

[Chinook]

The young talent and potential of the Cavs isincredibly exaggerated.. They couldnt make the playoffs in a historically bad East

Even with the additions of Deng and Hawes.

[Clipper Nation]

The young talent and potential of the Cavs isincredibly exaggerated.. They couldnt make the playoffs in a historically bad East

This, tbh....

First of all, Cleveland is a non-starter simply because of the combination of how they wasted seven years of his career and the infamous Comic Sans letter, tbh.... but let's pretend none of that happened - in order to even have a chance, the Cavs needed all their picks to pan out and basically become OKC East.... instead, Kyrie is just another Marbury-esque chucker and cancer, and they reached for Waiters and Bennett.... then they needed to appear to be a non-dysfunctional organization, yet the Mike Brown re-hiring/re-firing, the Bynum incident, and the debacle of this past season shows they're still a mess...

Pretty clear that all this Cleveland nonsense is being spread by LeBron's old high-school friends who are desperate to start mooching off him again, as Mark Heisler reported last year, but Media and casual fans still slurp it up

[spurraider21]

This, tbh....

First of all, Cleveland is a non-starter simply because of the combination of how they wasted seven years of his career and the infamous Comic Sans letter, tbh.... but let's pretend none of that happened - in order to even have a chance, the Cavs needed all their picks to pan out and basically become OKC East.... instead, Kyrie is just another Marbury-esque chucker and cancer, and they reached for Waiters and Bennett.... then they needed to appear to be a non-dysfunctional organization, yet the Mike Brown re-hiring/re-firing, the Bynum incident, and the debacle of this past season shows they're still a mess...

Pretty clear that all this Cleveland nonsense is being spread by LeBron's old high-school friends who are desperate to start mooching off him again, as Mark Heisler reported last year, but Media and casual fans still slurp it up

i can tell how much fans love to slurp up LeBron news based on certain posters on this site tbh

[DMC]

Lebron should stay and see where things go next season. No one is going to challenge him in the East anyways so he'll have another shot in the finals. Then, he can always opt out and join the Spurs when Duncan and Ginobili retire after next season. Lebron loves being Magic Johnson and he can pass all he wants in Pop's system.

In all honestly, Pop's system truly fits Lebron's playstyle. Lebron can just pick up where Ginobili left off, although he'll probably want to start. There might be some tweaking involved since Lebron would require more touches and occasionally the ball will stick in his hands but that can easily be fixed by the current greatest coach in sports.

That's like saying Kim Kardashian should do public television.

[DMC]

That list is a load of ...he should come to Houston before considering half those garbage ass teams.

Miami is several miles above those other teams as far as landing spot for him however Houston has such a ty coach that I highly doubt a true superstar would want to go there. If Lionel Hollins became the head coach that would change.

He cannot be seen to quit just because he lost in the Finals 1 year. For any other team that was a successful year. He has more opportunity to win championships in that city than any other city that he would likely go to.