(Amar’e Stoudemire getting prepared for winter in Cleveland)
With the biggest free agent year in NBA history looming, and LeBron on the brink of an NBA Championship, the Cavs are reportedly trading Z and Hickson for Amar’e Stoudemire.
The Cavs need to do anything they can to keep LeBron happy and keep him in Cleveland. Acquiring another young star is a good start. Now if they can win a Championship together it will increase the Cavs chances of keeping LeBron. Let’s face it, if the Cavs lose LeBron to free agency, they should just bulldoze Cleveland into Lake Erie.
Zydrunas Ilgauskas is a great player, but he’s on the back-nine of his career. Hickson could be a force some day, but he’s young and a bit undersized. Stoudemire is a beast in the making. He’s a guy who can counter Dwight Howard in the East and the Lakers Bigs in the West. Essentially, with Soudemire, the Cavs could be an unstoppable force for years to come.
Let’s just hope they ink the deal because the NBA needs to shake things up, All-Star Weekend hasn’t exactly been exciting.
PS – I’m taking a crap right now (“Alternatives to NBA All-Star Game”)
Tags: Cleveland Cavaliers, LeBron James, NBA