Nice signing for them- spot up shooter to replace Wally...should play well with LBJ

AP is awesome. old, but he can give them 20-25 mins of quality play.

What the fudge?

Posted by crzymdups:

cleveland is flailing. i feel like lebron intends to stay with them, but i can't say why he would with moves like this.

i find it very hard to believe any move they make doesn't have lebron's approval.

From the article:

Varejao's contract is worth $42.5 million over the six years, and the final year is only partially guaranteed. Incentives could push the total amount to $50 million.

They just blew a lot of cap space to keep this guy, if Cleveland doesn't get to the finals this year which they won't because they are going to have to beat Orlando and then the Celts, is Lebron really enticed to stay with that team.

I think his incentives have to be attainable. He's not very good so I doubt they're all that difficult to achieve. As to the final year being reported as partially guaranteed you rarely see teams just cut a player unless they're really washed up or badly injured and unlikely to return to action.

Even if all he gets is the 42M that's still way out of control for his services. Why should he get more than Birdman did? CLE grossly overpaid to keep a role player and if you read Cavs forums you will find their fans are downright confused why their team locked him up to such a contract. Very few found his contract reasonable and I see nothing to justify him getting so much money. I highly doubt anyone was offering him 10M a year for if they did would he not sign there instead?