Nalod wrote:Really, comemorative sneakers for his free agency "TOUR" visits?

Has anyone discussed "over exposure" to this dude?

These sneakers I hope are not being marketed to kids but to those freaks who work 3 jobs to afford having closetfull of sneakers to define their identity.

Starbury called him and told him how to market his tennis shoes.

Childs2Dudley wrote:

LivingLegend wrote:There are a couple of ways to look at this from Lebron's perspective....

If he hits NYC first -- he can claim he fell in love with NY offer and cancel the rest of the trips
(this allows him to avoid leading on the other teams and having to skate out of town without signing a NJ or CHI deal).

Imagine the stir if the Knicks called a press-conference the afternoon of Lebron's visit -- holy crap the city would ignite.

On the flip side -- he could just be using us like every other mo-fo free agent the last 10 years.

He'll visit the other cities. He's too much of an attention whore not to.

lol....

iSergio wrote:How long is this going to take? We can't wait a whole week for LeBron James to make up his mind.

This is why I believe it's either going to be King James and Chris Bosh or David Lee (ugh!), Joe Johnson (ugh!!) and some mediocre player like Mike Miller, Raymond Felton, Tyrus Thomas, Jermaine O'Neal.

Pretty sure we'd have to wait a week anyway. July 1st is when teams can talk with FA's, but I believe there's a week moratorium and players can't sign the contract till July 7th. They can make oral agreements, but not sure if those are binding until they get the player's signature.

Via the "Godfather".

Knicks not being talked about at all. Amazing how fast the rumor meter swings.

My HOPE is knicks not being talked about is a good sign. I would hope lebron is doing all this posturing to midigate the damage from leaving Cleveland. Gotta show Cleveland, Chicago, Miami all kinds of love so they come watch him play.

Basically the MDA offense will need parts and they can offer not the current team but what the vision is with him as the center piece, perhaps bosh and gallo. Thats the core. Gallo's breakdown has some very interesting stats when isolated.

Im sure there are other combonations that they are cooking up.

But in chicago you have Derrick Rose, a nice player but lets be real, Thibs is a great coach but is he that much better than MIke brown was? Brown was deputy dog in SA who had a nice run but he is no offensive genious, and neither is THibs.

Core Deng-Lebron-Rose with Heinrich is nice if MDA is coaching that. Problem I see is Rose off the ball.

We can go over each scenario but Lebron to NY is not about which city is better, whose celeb row is better, or which arena is louder, its going to be about that vision. Say what you want about MDA, but the man is well thought of on Team USA. If Eddy, Nay Nate, Marbury, and Larry Hughes can't get with him and lebron listens to them, then Lebron is not the man we would like him to be.

You pull a Chris Paul/Tony Parker kind of thing BEFORE july 1st you go a long way on that one.

Whats Dlee look like in the big easy with TD? NO saves money and brings in a backup to collison and an allstar. They can sell it that Paul will break down soon. What ever.

Lebron, Paul, Bosh Gallo, and who ever!

Its obvious....you win a championship in nyc, you are the biggest sports figure in nyc history. Basketball in nyc is on top. The city is hungry for Knicks champion. Living legend status. Clyde and those guys are still eating off their rings.

The Knicks can't offer anything different from any other team besides Cleveland. Knicks do gave a clean roster Lebron can help fill with guys he likes.

Even Derek jeter basically said its retarded to sell anyone on nyc. Either he comes or he doesn't. Knicks can't afford to be held hostage either. Time is ticking.