Oh no they didn’t!
ESPN’s Gene Wojciechowski just dropped a bomb on Cleveland, Miami and Toronto today on their homepage (“Blueprint for an NBA dynasty”).
We’ve dropped some bombs on Cleveland in the past, and it looks like ESPN is joining the assault well. With the NBA’s strongest free agency in league history happening this year, the rumor-mill and speculation will be running wild from now until the beginning of the 2010-2011 season. I have nothing against players like LeBron, Dwyane and Chris staying in their respective cities. If they’re loyal and happy, good for them.
But it’s my journalistic right and responsibility to share an opinion (I’m actually not a journalist, just a 20-something guy sitting in his underwear writing blog posts in my parents basement). So I ask myself, “Why wouldn’t these guys at least consider the possibility of joining forces?” What does every great professional athlete say when it’s all said and done?
“I wish I had made more money.”
” I wish I hadn’t contracted herpes.”
“I wish I had won a championship(s).”
Exactly. Does LeBron want to be the Dan Marino of the NBA? Fuck no. So if you think he’s not at least having the conversations with Bosh and Wade then you’re just ignorant. You would if you were in his shoes.
Right now, the Knicks are on the hook for only $18.6 million in contracts next season. The Nets are committed to just $26.6 million worth of deals, while the Heat are at $30.7 million, the Bulls at $31.9 million, the Clippers at $33.5 million, the Kings at $33.9 million and the T-Wolves at $35.2 million. These teams have ample room for 3 superstars. Specifically, they could afford to pay each guy $11 million per year, which doesn’t suck.
Again, I’m not hoping these guys leave their teams, but the idea that it could happen is a story in itself. Nobody wanted to hear this speculation when we first wrote about it last November (“LeBron Staying in Cleveland? Ha!”) but now the mainstream media is starting to pick up the story and it’s only going to get worse over the next several months.
Sorry Cleveland.
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i would love for something like this to happen, but i would hate to see the cavs lose LBJ…even though it seems likely to happen
Wade at point with LeBron and Bosh on the wing? Are you fucking kidding me? Make it happen New York Knickerbockers!
Fuck you guys! LeBron is staying in CLE. You keep bringing this shit up and it’s stupid, he’s a Cav for life.
Eat shit pansies
The idea that it could happen, huh? Once the Cavs lose O’Neal after this season, they clear $21 million in cap space. They can currently pay LeBron (by then a 2-time MVP) more than anyone…$30 million more, to be exact — and they WILL do it. If Wade and Bosh were truly going to sign in the neighborhood on 11 million/yr to get rings, why wouldn’t they just come to Cleveland? I mean, if this all boils down to simply winning, Bosh and Wade would stand to be the best if they just went to a team already built to win. This would be the Cavs, not the Knicks…not even close…the Knicks flat out suck.
The truth is, the only guy likely to leave his current team is Wade as he is not happy with the shapes of things on the Heat. LeBron is on a perennial contender with great ownership and he would be leaving at least $30 million on the table if he left. And, the man is already a global icon. I believe that part of the reason he is that icon is because he plays in a city that exemplifies hard work and perserverance in the face of adversity (In Cleveland: You Gotta’ Be Tough). Hollywood and Manhattan think that everything can be won merely through existence on a specific geographic plane and by writing a check. Unfortunately, it’s much more than that and I’m pretty sure LeBron realizes it by now. Besides, he can make more money, pay lower taxes, and get a way better bang for his buck in Cleveland. These are all concepts that seem rather foreign to the United LeBron Exodus Conspiracy.
Sorry New York…but, keep on dreaming. One of these days, you might even be able to afford to move out of your parents’ basement.
Genius. If this would happen the NBA would collapse in five years would be replaced with the NYKBA. It only takes two brain cells to figure out the rest of the country would tune out if this actually worked. Then we would see how well the universe revolved around New York.
^^forget your meds today?
Hey fellas Junior here… Don’t get your panties in a bunch Cleveland natives, the Bore will be posting the 5 reasons why LeBron is staying in Cleveland shortly. & dream_on, u must have a lot of time on ur hands, come spend more of it here at sportsbore
lol i’m ok with someone being a cleveland fan, but at least be a self-depricating one… i mean its not the nicest place in the world… http://realestate.yahoo.com/promo/americas-most-miserable-cities-2010.html
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I enjoy keeping up with these updates. It makes my morning routine.
And just like that Miami is a perennial powerhouse