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Gilbert is wasting his time, Stern will ensure nothing happens to the queen.
Adrian Wojnarowski
CLEVELAND – The Cleveland Cavaliers have poured hundreds of thousands of dollars into a high-powered Midwestern law firm to investigate their su ions that the Miami Heat broke NBA tampering rules while pursuing LeBron James(notes), and owner Dan Gilbert has privately vowed he won’t relent until he has a thick binder of findings to drop on the desk of the NBA commissioner, league sources told Yahoo! Sports.
The NBA won’t launch an investigation into a tampering case without a formal request from a team, but sources say Gilbert’s plan is to give commissioner David Stern a detailed case that includes meetings, phone calls and contingency plans that date as far back as 2008. Gilbert will implore Stern to use his powers as commissioner to get access to phone records and testimony of key people surrounding Heat president Pat Riley, James and others potentially involved.
Gilbert has spent several hundred thousand dollars on the investigation and will spare no expense to uncover whatever evidence he can to take to the league office, two sources with direct knowledge of the probe told Yahoo! Sports. The law firm staff includes several former prosecutors with backgrounds in investigating and constructing cases, sources said.
Prior to the start of free agency on July 1, no Miami Heat representative – including star Dwyane Wade(notes) – was allowed to discuss with James the specific cir stances around Wade, Toronto’s Chris Bosh(notes) and James joining together with the Heat.
One focus of the law firm’s probe includes an alleged Riley-James meeting in Miami in November 2009, and a meeting of James’ inner circle with Wade in Chicago in June 2010, sources said.
Riley, James, Wade and Bosh have denied there was a predetermined collusion in the historic free-agent binge, although the players have admitted to discussing the possibility of playing together as far back as the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.
When approached about the story on Tuesday night at Cleveland’s Quicken Loans Arena, Gilbert declined to answer questions from Yahoo! Sports.
As one league source told Yahoo! Sports: The Cavs are “determined to get everything out there. They’re not letting go of this. They’re not going to just let this die.”
Potential penalties for tampering could include front-office suspensions, fines and losses of draft picks. Many teams are su ious of the league office’s desire to investigate these kind of cases because of the potential embarrassment to the league.
This revelation makes for one more dramatic storyline to James’ return to Cleveland on Thursday night. Gilbert escalated Cleveland’s fervor over losing James when he issued a scathing email about James on the night of the two-time MVP’s television decision. For that diatribe, Stern fined Gilbert $100,000.
Gilbert is wasting his time, Stern will ensure nothing happens to the queen.
Wojo and Gilbert are so mad at Lebron. It's ridiculous. I bet you Gilbert loves Wojo now
It's money down a rat hole.
This really is a different level of butthurt tbh
It is not a bad move as perhaps Miami might have to give up a future draft choice and the way they are stinking up the joint that might not be as bad of a draft choice as expected!
JFC,
Dan Gilbert just needs to hang it up already. He's already monumentally butthurt over this whole ordeal. Each day and dollar he wastes just serves as reminders.
Lol
Will he send his formal letter in Comic Sans?
Wolves draft picks got ed with the Smith scandal. I wouldnt mind spending money if that will ensure my nemesis goes down the drain too.
LeBron, Heat players respond to Gilbert’s tampering charge
Kurt Helin
Cavaliers’ owner Dan Gilbert has allegedly paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to a Midwestern law firm to put together a tampering case with evidence against the Miami Heat and how they lured LeBron James from Cleveland to South Beach.
What does LeBron think about that? Not much, he told FanHouse on the eve of returning to Cleveland to face the Cavaliers for the first time Thursday night.
“I’m here,” James said. “I’m a Miami Heat player representing this franchise, so that’s out of my league. I don’t have anything to do with that. We followed the process like any other free agent, and this organization did also.”
Former Cavalier Zydrunas Ilgauskas had a much better perspective on it:
“That’s chasing ghosts right there,” he told FanHouse while shaking his head. “Let bygones be bygones. There are more important things in life: people dying from cancer every day, kids dying every day, people having HIV, people fighting wars. There are more important things than the Miami Heat going back to Cleveland.
“Let’s put life in perspective, it’s just a basketball game.”
Didn't Loony Dan allege that LeBron is a quitter and other things?
So why is he so upset that Miami signed him away from Cleveland?
pissing on your own foot, Dan.
Tha is Z goin on about? Cancer?
It probably doesn't help Gilbert's case that in the end he SnT'd LeBron to Miami.
Mono with the greats.
+1. That's why in the end all this will be pushed aside. This guy is just hurting his repuation around the league, no one is gonna wanna go to Cleveland to play for this asshole...
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