He came back to Cleveland and did what he set out to do.

So why continue in the NBA (?)

Even if he wins another 5 titles . . . it would be a footnote.

Why not go 100% into the other businesses that he wants to pursue (?)

He's got the money and the connections and the smarts.

Do it, I say (!)

crzymdups wrote:Woj is saying if he wins one for Cleveland, he may feel free to go to LA with his friends and make another super team on the Clippers or Lakers.

Hahn and Humpty were saying the same thing- that he goes to the Clippers with Paul, Melo gets traded there for Blake and maybe Wade goes there too.

That is the upside to me of LeBron winning- just my opinion that the best way for us to rebuild is to focus a bit further out and get younger/ stock more talent that can gel and develop together.

EnySpree wrote:He could stay in Cleveland and live happily ever after, or he could go to the Clippers and form a brat pack. The fantasy would be to come to NY and win the Knicks a championship.

Question would be... does he want to chill and raise his family in Cleveland and decline quietly.... does he wasn't to like line a douchebag and go play with his boys in LA.... or does he want to live forever and win one for NY....

Let's not get into that. If he signs here he signs if he doesn't he doesn't. We have been down that crazy speculator road it did more harm than good.

Malcolm wrote:James is in a very unusual situation.

He came back to Cleveland and did what he set out to do.

So why continue in the NBA (?)

Even if he wins another 5 titles . . . it would be a footnote.

Why not go 100% into the other businesses that he wants to pursue (?)

He's got the money and the connections and the smarts.

Do it, I say (!)

Bizarro Thread Award - can I get a second nomination for this one?

Malcolm wrote:

Moonangie wrote:

Malcolm wrote:James is in a very unusual situation.

He came back to Cleveland and did what he set out to do.

So why continue in the NBA (?)

Even if he wins another 5 titles . . . it would be a footnote.

Why not go 100% into the other businesses that he wants to pursue (?)

He's got the money and the connections and the smarts.

Do it, I say (!)

Bizarro Thread Award - can I get a second nomination for this one?

You mean like . . . Michael Jordan quitting the Bulls and going to play
minor league baseball (?)

Jordan's father was also murdered that August in 1993 after his third in a row. Some say he was murdered for Jordan's gambling debts. Jordan had more reasons to walk away at that time than just basketball. Some say that Stern even suspended him or encouraged him to walk away for a while. Jordan didn't retire until the beginning of training camp.

Malcolm wrote:James is in a very unusual situation.

He came back to Cleveland and did what he set out to do.

So why continue in the NBA (?)

Even if he wins another 5 titles . . . it would be a footnote.

Why not go 100% into the other businesses that he wants to pursue (?)

He's got the money and the connections and the smarts.

Do it, I say (!)

Ummmmmmmmmm huh????

tj23 wrote:Cleveland will still hate him if he leaves again. I think he(at least partially) went back to repair his reputation. Even if he wants to leave now I don't think he will. Then again, i never thought he'd leave the first time to form a superteam, so who knows? LeBron wants to win, he's not retiring imo

I think he can legitimately leave now. But I also think he probably thought it'd be a three-four year process to get the team back to contention (he said as much in his "I'm Home" letter at SI). This may have happened more quickly than he thought.

I could see him going to LA maybe after another year or two. Melo's a Free Agent in 2018, CP3 in 2017, Wade this year. Maybe they all team up then for one last go at it?

Bron seemed to really relish winning one for Cleveland. That may have surprised him more than he thought, too.

Malcolm wrote:Even if he wins another 5 titles . . . it would be a footnote.

That's a hell of a footnote!

Is self-sabotage part of Triangle Culture?