Posted by Anji:

Frye, Nate, Lee, Collins, Balkman, Curry, Crawford, Picks, Money. THey would be stupid to let him walk for free, reguardless of what you think would happen.

Edit: and the toothfairy is Real.

[Edited by - Anji on 07-07-2006 2:16 PM]

The required money would have to be somewhere near 16 million dollars. Their not going to screw their team up longterm, by taking someone like Curry or Crawford(who neither alone would bring the trade to 16mill) just to take something back for Lebron.

NObody cares what the Hawks record is under Knight

Correction....nobody cares about the Hawks. Have you seen the crowds they have been drawing?

I think we fail to realize the NBA is full of stupid people in high positions, case in point nearly half of the NBA GMS have no idea what they are doing:

Lakers, Knicks, Raptors (terrible offseason so far Rasho, and Ford)Golden State, Philly, Atlanta, Portland, etc just awful

And that brings us to Cleveland and the most important questions lebron is asking himself right now are:

Can we can better: perhaps Shannon Brown, Daniel Gibson not much room for improvement

Can we make a trade to improve the team: Gooden is there only viable player they can move and he is not desirable around the league

Can we bring in free agents: NO they are locked into Larry Hughes, (Joe Johnson was the better option and would have been great and got the Cavs past the pistons) Damon Jones, Eric Snow, and Big Z no real trade value but very high salaries

So where are his weapons?

What is his legacy?

Duane Wade has a championship and he does not.......so why is clevland so desirable? They are not have no chance of winning an NBA title ever, and who really wants to live in Cleveland......

He is not going to LA, Kobe is there so why would he do that, Chicago will always be MJ's town........

And where is Isiah at fault: Jalen Rose not a problem......Jerome James should have got him fired right away on the books kills cap room, Francis is no good and is on the books and kills matters....if they can find a way to get those players out of there or even cut them in order to make things happen we do have some good pieces here......

Curry if he ever asserts himself will get a ton of easy penetration baskets and overpower people

Fyre is the perfect compliment to Lebron he can run the floor space things out and hit the jumper

Crawford is a great spot up shooter that usaully hits the open jumper when he sets himself and has time.....

Nate could be traded or a nice player off the bench to provide energy........

Lee running next to Lebron would be deadly, you could even play him a little at the center position or the pf position with the league turning into more of a finess game.....

So if Nike doubles his money by $100 million and his other endorsements are bumped up, ur looking at all the money possible he would have recieved from cleveland its a virtual wash

IF HE BRINGS A TITLE TO NY HE IS THE BIGGEST STAR IN THE WORLD; ITS NOT THAT FARFETCHED; HIS STAR WILL NEVER BE BRIGHTER AND HE"LL MAKE MORE MONEY HERE THAN ANY OTHER PLACE IN THE LEAGUE........

At least he rebuilt a team....

Posted by Anji:

Steven Nash and Ben wallace were not on there rookie contracts, what is your point?????

The situation the article was talking about has Lebron taking the 1 year qualifying offer in 2007 and becoming an unrestricted FA in 2008. There is no difference.

That's the point. For us to be successful we have to hope some superstar decides to take less than market value in order to play for us. Instead of building a team, getting in position to sign a free-agent by getting under or near the cap or getting in position to get a star by obtaining a high lottery pick. Get in position to trade for a star by obtaining players that make what they are worth. We do none of this. Instead we sit back and pray that some player decides that playing in NY is more important than getting market value and his team so afraid to lose him that they trade him for flawed players. I'm not saying it can't happen. I'm just saying it never really does.

[Edited by - bippity10 on 07-07-2006 2:57 PM]

Posted by nyballer:

I can't see the cavs trading lebron...they'd rather take the chance that bron is bluffing than suffer the backlash of having traded one of the best players ever. They would lose all credibility and fan support if they agree to a sign and trade - if they offer bron the max and he turns it down then they are the victims, in the public's eye there was nothing they could have done about it.

Letting, possibly, someone who has the potential to be one of the top 2 or 3 players of all time go, and getting nothing in return would be even worse.

Posted by Bippity10:

Do you guys have any idea what type of trade offers will be out there if Cleveland puts Lebron on the market. Do you think we will be able to compete in terms of offers? I think it's a pipe dream. I think our team needs to focus on creating an atmosphere of winning instead of being a circus. And develop a future so that when these guys are available we can realistically go out and target them, instead of watching them go everywhere but here because all our players are drastically overpaid and noone wants them because of the circus that surrounds them.

Thats what I've been trying to say.

cavs could get any player in the league for lebron except probably dwade dwight howard types. the thing is, they wouldn't trade him outright - he'd force a trade, and then the cavs lose almost all leverage. still, the knicks don't have enough to get him. the clippers could give the cavs everyone on their team, including livingston, except brand, celts could give them pierce jefferson telfair - our rookies are good but none could net us lbj, if the cavs were to agree to trade him.

[Edited by - nyballer on 07-07-2006 3:21 PM]