SLATEmosphere;3444643 said:
There's a lot wrong with this post. its going to be a domino effect in cleveland when lebron signs. All they have to do is tell lebron, "pick any player you want and well get him" he will agree and before he signs, he will make sure bosh will force a trade. Talks will also be made about a head coach before hand. They'll tell lebron that byron scott would love to be your coach if you resign. Just like that you have lebron,bosh and byron scott.
He's going on his strokemylego tour right now to give everyone a pitch.
You can't pick and choose how good his team is. He gets zero ****ing help ever year in the playoffs. So what if he had a few bad games, its a team sport. Kobe bryant had some horrible games and the lakers still won because he got help. Its extremely hypocrytical to say lebron choked when kobe had the same type of games.
I could have been wrong in my opinions on Chris Bosh. I still think Dwyane Wade, LeBron, and Bosh will take less money to have a chance to win, especially if it means Wade gets to come home and compete for a title.
Starting 5 of Rose, Wade, James, Deng/Noah, and Bosh? That would be a lock for the Eastern Conference. Deng or Noah could start, and the other would be an extremely dangerous 6th man off the bench. Read on:
Report: LeBron leaning toward Bulls
An NBA executive says the Chicago Bulls have emerged as a favorite in the free agency sweepstakes for LeBron James, along with Chris Bosh, The New York Times reported on Sunday.
The executive said he had gleaned from his discussions with other league executives that James is leaning toward joining the Bulls, along with Bosh, his teammate on the United States' gold medal-winning 2008 Olympic team. The Times reported the executive did not want to be named because he was discussing a player who was not yet a free agent.
"I think it's a done deal," the executive, said according to the report.
James' friend and business partner Maverick Carter told ESPN The Magazine's Chris Broussard that James will have would-be suitors visit him in his native Ohio, rather than embark upon a barnstorming tour of cities hoping to land the two-time MVP. Free agency officially starts at 12:01 a.m. ET on Thursday.
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"LeBron is not going on a tour," Carter said. "He never planned to go on a tour and has not been a part of any team's plans for a recruiting trip."
Teams including the New York Knicks, New Jersey Nets, Miami Heat and Los Angeles Clippers are in the hunt for James, along with the Cleveland Cavaliers, the only team he has played for in his seven-year NBA career. Fans in Cleveland and cities hoping to woo James have already made high-profile pushes for his services.
But the NBA executive said he believed James would meet with those teams as a courtesy, out of consideration for the overtures and personnel moves they have made to clear salary cap in hopes of signing James, The Times reported.
Sources said various teams were made aware of James' anti-tour stance Wednesday. The Knicks -- who, according to the Cleveland Plain Dealer, were planning a spectacular, celebrity-laden dinner cooked by a world-renowned chef for James on July 1 -- quickly canceled it and began drafting an alternate plan, according to two sources.
While several teams had hoped to sell James on the non-basketball advantages of their cities, it's believed that James wants to keep the focus on basketball. The executive quoted by the Times also said that James wanted to keep the focus on the game.
"He is going to make a basketball decision, so all that is unnecessary," the executive said, according to The Times. "He just saved a lot of people a lot of money."
Information from ESPN The Magazine's Chris Broussard was used in this report.
because of Andre Miller?
