Lebron James to Spurs: Best Destination for him

[Splits]

[xmas1997]

It is a pipe dream. But if he wanted to come here, take less money, I'm sure the team would accept him and without having to make any major changes in personnel.

[look_at_g_shred]

Did you read that on the Lebron app?

I remember during "The Decision" thinking that he was a pretty low key guy who didn't care about the media.

Subtle.

[024]

If Lebron had waited to opt out until next year, the pipe dream would be more realistic. The Spurs would probably only have Splitter, Leonard, and a cheap FA signed this year under contract next season. Mills and Diaw would also be under contract if they re-signed. But there would definitely be enough cap space to make a run for Lebron next year when Ginobili and Duncan retire. Now it's next to impossible. Even if the Spurs let Mills and Diaw go, they still have to salary dump Parker or Ginobili + another player. That's not going to happen. Oh well, will just have to wait for Durant in 2016.

[manufan10]

[Malik Hairston]

imagine how furious the league would be, tbh..

[xmas1997]

imagine how furious the league would be, tbh..

There would be a flurry of rule changes for sure.

[Malik Hairston]

Pop and Tim need to make the call, tbh..

- Break the Bulls 72-win record
- Go undefeated in the playoffs
- Win every playoff game by double-digits

[Ron Swanson]

The storm from that would be unreal.

[Richie]

If Lebron had waited to opt out until next year, the pipe dream would be more realistic. The Spurs would probably only have Splitter, Leonard, and a cheap FA signed this year under contract next season. Mills and Diaw would also be under contract if they re-signed. But there would definitely be enough cap space to make a run for Lebron next year when Ginobili and Duncan retire. Now it's next to impossible. Even if the Spurs let Mills and Diaw go, they still have to salary dump Parker or Ginobili + another player. That's not going to happen. Oh well, will just have to wait for Durant in 2016.

Obviously it's not going to happen, but there's no reason to think we couldn't open up the cap room if we needed to. Before re-signing Mills and Diaw we have $9m in cap room this summer, and Belinelli, Ayres and Joseph combine to make almost $7m next year. If it meant signing Lebron, we could give up a bunch of picks for someone to take them off our hands.

Any team would give up a whole bunch of future first rounders to dump salary and make space for Lebron. We could even dump Splitter somewhere which could give us $18m in space this summer.

Again, it's not even remotely likely but he could call any GM in the league and they could make space for him if he said that's where he wanted to go.

[Richie]

We wouldn't have Bird rights after one year so the max wouldn't be an option. Not that it's a serious suggestion anyway, but just sayin'...

[Drachen]

Not sure why you say that. Lebron wouldn't have the corporate knowledge in his first year so he would barely see the light of day in the regular season. In the playoffs?!? Lol, might as well introduce him to the Tom Copa memorial folding chair at the end of the bench.

[Strategic]

I can hear Pop already. "These playoffs aren't for bron bron".

[Seventyniner]

We wouldn't have Bird rights after one year so the max wouldn't be an option. Not that it's a serious suggestion anyway, but just sayin'...

Bird rights would presumably be unnecessary. The Spurs should have a lot of cap room next summer though it would mean potentially gutting the team.

[xmas1997]

The Spurs still have their MLE, not that James would take it, but stranger things have happened.

[DrunkTXLabrat]

There's a better chance of Pop and RC hopping in a delorian, going back to '84, kidnapping Jordan, and bringing him to play on the Spurs than Lebron coming over, tbh.

man, space jam 2 meets back to the future.

[Phenomanul]

Would be a redux of the perimeter oriented defensive prowess of the 90's Bulls...

Kawhi (SF) ~ Pippen role
LeBron (SG) ~ Jordan role

Duncan (C/F) / Tiago (C/F) / Diaw (C/F) >>> anything the Bulls had in those positions (no offense to Horace Grant)

Parker (PG) > anything the Bulls had in that position...

Wishful thinking...

[bigfan]

He will be signed by the Spurs right after they sign me as a walk on Dekker Dog salesman.

[Spur|n|Austin]

This makes me want to play that old game, Pipe Dream from the 80's.

[Strike]

The Spurs still have their MLE, not that James would take it, but stranger things have happened.

Name one.

[TheyCallMePro]

If we did get Lebron what would our strating 5 look like?

Like this?

C: Splitter
PF: Duncan
SF: Lebron
SG: Green
PG: Parker

Guess Kawhi can come off the bench as the back-up SF.

[szkorhetz]

If we did get Lebron what would our strating 5 look like?

Like this?

C: Splitter
PF: Duncan
SF: Lebron
SG: Green
PG: Parker

Guess Kawhi can come off the bench as the back-up SF.

Duncan
LeBron
Kawhi
Green
Parker.

[xmas1997]

Name one.

I was referring to things in general.
But in basketball?
How about when James and Bosh first went to the Heat?
And how about when Kirilenko went to the Nets for a of a lot less money than offered by the Spurs?
These were pretty strange things to happen IMHO.

[TheyCallMePro]

Duncan
LeBron
Kawhi
Green
Parker.

That's better. Forgot Lebron can play any position.

[Aztecfan03]

Then you've never held a job. As a worker, they are there to make money, as is the franchise, as is the league. The whole ring thing is a fan attraction thing. It's entertainment. Is movie making about winning Oscars or about making money? When a player is half a billion dollars richer by having 3 fewer rings than another player, the ring argument is pointless. It's always about money.

That explains Duncan taking a lot less over his career so he could have a good team around him, right?