Where's Lebron Going
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I am no expert on the english language buy to me Dwayne is right. Someone massively ****ed up when they spelled it Dwyane.
I'll stop. It's obvious you have nothing better to do than stalk CF...over 12 mil credits and almost 8000 posts.....nice..
I have a feeling Orlando gets one of those players unless they win the Championship and resign Vince. I will admit I was wrong there. I still think VInce is a risk but he brings something they didn't have last year. that is explosiveness to the hole.
Oh I think I've posted way more than that! But my social group posts don't show up. I should be well over 10K by now.
There is no guarantee that Miami signs any of the above listed FA....If that they dont, why would Wadee stay in Miami. Just sayin, nothing is for sure. Also, I forgot that Dirk is a Free Agent....Whats the changes he leaves, Cuban is obviously not happy w/ the team, I think he might leave. Lots of wildcards this FA season. Dirk is crazy talented and would def be the 3rd best FA in this class at least for a couple more years. If he went to the Lakers ( i know he wont) the rest of the NBA could just pack up and go home.
3 GMs think Lebron to Bulls, hope they turn out to be right.
LeBron to the Bulls? 3 GMs think so - TrueHoop Blog - ESPN
LeBron to the Bulls? 3 GMs think so - TrueHoop Blog - ESPN
Dirk to the Magic is very interesting as well. You then start a line of two 7 footers that excel at completely different things and your 3 is 6'10. You put Pietrus or a draft pick at the two and that team is ridiculous. If the Magic sign one of those FAs and Dwight improves as much from this year to next year as he did last year to this year offensively, holy smokes.
I think that's fair to say. The way I took it is that he is saying it affected him but he should have gotten it done anyway. Supposedly the guy was getting cortisone shots every other day or something in it.
T'wolves! Don't crush my dream! Haven't seen a good team since 04. Garnett, Sprewell, Olowakandi, Cassel. That's just a few, stupid Lakers beat em though.
Yes, exactly, sounds like a nightmare for other teams if he were to go to Orlando. Anythingt that Dirk lacks defensively could prob be covered up by Howard. I think people have lost track of Dirk, he was the freaking MVP not to long ago, its just his teams havent been so great lately. Him to Orlando would out weigh any other off season moves and they would prob handle the lakers no prob
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that was one of the prefaces where someone says it and you know immediately after they're about to do exactly what they said they wouldn't. it's like the guy who says "now I don't mean to sound racist here" followed by him saying something blatantly racist.
c'mon Lebron...
I don't even think those two are the nightmare. The nightmare is Lewis. Who guards him? You have to put a big guy on Dwight Dirk and Lewis. The only team that can do that is the Lakers. Hedo caused the same thing last year but they didn't have Jameer Nelson. I think a lot of people forget that Nelson was out/very rusty last year. Totally different team.
If you've been listening to Mike and Mike this morning, you would have heard them making the case that they don't think New York is the favorite for where LeBron will end up. That's because the American public is mostly confused as to which market the NBA (and Nike) is trying to sell him to. When you get right down to it, it really doesn't matter which city LeBron ends up in if they're trying to market him if it was an American market they were catering to. You really think LeBron's going to be more exposed in New York than he already is in Cleveland? I doubt that - he's already for the most part the biggest household name in America right now. Just how much bigger can he get in New York? In fact, it's not an American market they're trying to sell him to - it's actually China. And the Chinese don't really give a rip about the marketing power of New York or Chicago or Cleveland - they care about how many championships a player has won. During the Olympics a couple of years ago, why do you think it was Kobe that got Nike's "special" shoes for the Olympics and not LeBron? It's because Kobe's the more marketable guy in China - and it has less to do with the fact that he's spent his entire career in Los Angeles and much more to do with the fact that he had 3 rings on his fingers (at the time).
Basically, the NBA and Nike aren't concerned about selling LeBron to the American public - that's already done and that's not going away. What they're trying to do is sell LeBron to the 300 million people living on the other side of the Pacific Ocean, and how they do that is by LeBron winning championships. New York is YEARS away from that happening, even with as much cap space as they have to work with. His best chance to win a championship quickly is either to sign with Chicago (who, if they had LeBron this year, would have been better than the Cavs with LeBron this year), or to resign with Cleveland with the stipulation that they must bring in another body that's actually able to take some of the load off of him.
Basically, the NBA and Nike aren't concerned about selling LeBron to the American public - that's already done and that's not going away. What they're trying to do is sell LeBron to the 300 million people living on the other side of the Pacific Ocean, and how they do that is by LeBron winning championships. New York is YEARS away from that happening, even with as much cap space as they have to work with. His best chance to win a championship quickly is either to sign with Chicago (who, if they had LeBron this year, would have been better than the Cavs with LeBron this year), or to resign with Cleveland with the stipulation that they must bring in another body that's actually able to take some of the load off of him.
