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Kidd is a great player, but he doesnt have the media impact Lebron has
He'll probably stay home ...... dude would have to go home every now and then and hear the same :
"Why did you leave?"
Kidd is a great player, but he doesnt have the media impact Lebron has
well I didn't say Kidd wasn't a great player, he was a lot better in 2002 and 2003 though, but Kidd is lesser known then Lebron that's what I meant. I mean when Kidd was on the Nets I mentioned his name and people didn't know who I was talking about, I mention Lebron today the same people I talk with know him
I don't think LBJ and AJ would work well together because of Avery's style. Would LBJ be able to take any correction or criticism? I don't think so.
Cle or Chi looks like the supposed winner.
Yeah I don't know how it would work out with AJ as coach with Lebron. But then again some people do learn, so maybe AJ wouldn't say anything to Lebron if he came. He can say all he wants to the other players like Harris, Brook, etc. Although it could be bad to yell at Brook because I've heard two things can happen.
actually i'm with jam on this one. The nets is the most perfect fit imaginable.
People underrate devin harris and forget what he can do off the ball focusing on defense and KNOWING his role (rose is a 3rd year 1st pick .. ).
Add to that brook lopez and derrick favors and you got rebounding and defense superior to the majority of the teams in the league.
Add to that exceptional defensive prospects and young talented but not bound superstar (so in 2-3 years they up the team with money demands) that can fill exactly the needed role (courtney lee -3pt def specialist), and to the cap space they'd have even if they sign lebron
Add to that that they're basically in new york so all the media dom will go to unknown levels.
I don't care if that team won 12 games. How many games would the cavs team win without lebron where their offense would be mo & jamison two volume shooters ... they'd be worse than the wizards.
I would say Lebron is a good bet to go to the Nets next time. Three years from now they could be ready to contend.
The Nets were so bad outside of Brooke Lopez and Devin Harris, that you could replace two starters like Yi and Terrence Williams with LeBron and Bosh and you would an instant contender.
Hypothetically, say LeBron goes to the Nets and he's the only major free agent they sign.
Their core would consist of:
Devin Harris
Courtney Lee / Terrence Williams
LeBron James / Damion James
Derrick Favors / Kris Humphries
Brook Lopez
With only adding LeBron, I think that team is easily a 55 win team in the Eastern Conference and probably a favorite to go to the Finals, despite the lack of playoff experience on the roster. That's how much of a difference LeBron makes.
But the Nets would still have a lot of money to add, whether it's another big name free agent or a couple quality players. Can't get another max free agent, but a very good player or a couple good players to round out the roster. Fill the back-up roles for point guard and center, and that's a very good team.
I look at the Cleveland Cavaliers last year and if you take LeBron of that roster, I think that's a 15-20 win team. So I really don't think the fact the Nets won only 12 games last year is that big of a concern. And they did just add the #3 pick in the draft, Derrick Favors. LeBron hasn't had youth and athleticism in his front court his entire career. Drew Gooden was the most athletic front court player he played with. He gets a 20 point scorer in Brook Lopez, something he hadn't had since Boozer. And he gets athleticism with Favors, something he really never had in a PF.
james goes to nets he will get the credit for turning that team into a winner
not aj not haris not the number 3 pick
agree with MOST of this but not sure Cavs are ONLY a 15-20 win team without 'Bron.
Shaq, Jamison, Verejao mo williams that is some good talent ...problem is most of those can not create ...so without Lebron there is aHUGE hole but in the East I think that is a 25-30 win team ...
I cant imagine even diminished Shaq leads a 15 win team ...
It makes sense. Cleveland is home and the Nets have a nice young core and some solid role players with a good coach. That professionalism should minimize the losing culture that may have developed over the last two seasons. Everyone was miscast last year. Courtney Lee, Keyon Dooling, Jarvis Hayes, and Quinton Ross have been role players on big-time playoff teams. Brook Lopez, Derrick Favors, and Devin Harris is a nice supporting cast around Lebron James.
But my favorite is still the Bulls. If he can lure Chris Bosh to sign with him and they can form that 3-headed monster of Rose, Lebron, and Bosh, they could take the league by storm a la the 2008 Boston Celtics (and they are much younger, too).
Well with this said he signs with the Cavs then like some people I've heard say in 2013 he goes to the Nets and they will be in Brooklyn by that time
Yi has been traded to Washington and T-Will didn't start, but he got better at the end of the year
LeBron's going nowhere .......he's milking this media blowjob and he's gonna do what most of us thought he would do, stay in Cleveland.
Wouldn't the Bulls need to trade a player to get Bosh? I thought I read that somewhere, could be wrong. I know for Nets to get Bosh they would need to trade Hump
Cavs or Nets. I don't think LeBron wants to live in the shadow of MJ.
Id say Lebron is staying. Wade and Bosh to Chicago. Bosh just wants to hold out as long as possible so his name will stay in the news.
Ugh, really boring if Lebron simply resigns with Cleveland after all of this
CLE fans will be pissed because they don't want him.
They already did. They traded Hinrich and the 17th pick to the Wizards for nothing. That's 9.5 million in Hinrich salary and another 2 million for the 17th pick. They became players from that moment on to land two guys.
Prokhorov said he showed Lebron how he would be a mogul in New Jersey, and said that if Lebron came to NJ, he'd pursue a trade for Chris Paul. I'm really liking this Prokhorov guy.
My question is this. Toronto was talking about a sign and trade for Bosh to Cleveland, but Bosh said he didn't want to play in Cleveland. Don't him and Lebron talk? If he thought there was any prayer that Lebron would stay in Cleveland, would Bosh say he doesn't want to play there? Just a thought.
I've heard and read that they would have to do one more thing though, everyone could be wrong though. But I did read this online and from what I heard if they did a sign-and-trade, Raptors might ask for Noah, I don't think any of it is true, because I still feel like Lebron is stay with Cavs, Wade with heat and Bosh goes to heat as well
http://ken-berger.blogs.cbssports.co...;entry23028734
With $30.9 million in cap space after Rob Kurz and Chris Richard were waived, the Bulls are still one transaction away from fitting two straight max signings into their space. One way around that would be to sign-and-trade for one free agent and sign the other one, but it is difficult to imagine Bosh taking less money that Wade or LeBron -- or vice versa.
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