Who has the best players on the smallest contracts, which would mean James and another star could sign?
Golden State have Thompson on a rookie deal, Portland have Lillard on the cheap, James could get on those squads and go damage I'd think.
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Who has the best players on the smallest contracts, which would mean James and another star could sign?
Golden State have Thompson on a rookie deal, Portland have Lillard on the cheap, James could get on those squads and go damage I'd think.
Don't get his hopes up
0% chance he goes either of those places.
How come? Where are the most likely destinations then?
Golden State is already way over the cap. They traded their assets and cap space last year to get Igoudala.
Portland is in Oregon.
Miami 90%
The Field 10%
Cleveland, Houston, Chicago, Los Angeles?
I think he'll stay in Miami. All recent reports also point out that he's staying in Miami.
One or more of the big three might opt out of their contracts to sign new ones though to allow more cap space for additions. I think Ray will re-sign for another year too, but I'm less sure about that.
I want to say that Cleveland said they would not do a sign and trade but when the time came they agreed to do one in order to get something out of the situation, am I remembering that right?
So theoretically LeBron could tell Miami that he's leaving and then offer to let them sign-and-trade him to someone like Golden State for someone like Igoudala.
Of course you're going to say that Miami doesn't want Igoudala, but I suspect LeBron's agents can find a similar situation if that's what it will take.
But Miami also had the ability to sign Bosh and had cleared all that space, as far as I know the Lakers are the only team with that kinda space.
Any other big free agents out there that LA could sign along with LeBron?
I don't know, Wade isn't the force he was when LeBron joined his team, and Bosh hasn't really panned out as hoped, despite the titles. LeBron didn't show any sentimentality sticking with Cleveland, so if there's a better situation he can get into out there I would expect him to go for it.
Besides, he going to want to end up with more titles than Wade at some point.
I expect it will just depend on what's possible this summer or the next, if a team can put together a situation that is Miami MKII.
I think too much was made of Lebron leaving Cleveland. It was not just because he wanted a "better situation", it's because he lost his trust in the owner. He gave him 8 years to build a good team around him and he failed, and he was risking spending the rest of his career without any rings to show for his talent. That's why he moved. He moved to Miami because Pat Riley convinced him that he's capable of building a championship team, and he proved it to him after that.
The Heat might not win a ring this year, but I don't think that will hurt Lebron's trust in Pat Riley that much, having already won 2 rings (his only rings) with him. Even if the Heat are on a decline right now, he still trusts Riley to correct things and sign the required players to help him win more rings, more than anybody else. After all, they also lost in the first season, but Battier, Birdman, Allen, ... all proved to be masterstrokes by Riley that helped the team win two rings in the next two years (with Wade struggling with injuries as well).
Another important thing is the adversity they faced, especially in their first year. They dealt with it as a team, and it strengthened them as a team (including the coaches/owner...). And to win it eventually with this team, who gave you everything you wanted, it's hard to part ways only because of one season.
You would know better than me, but LeBron doesn't strike me as the sentimental type. He won't want to wait around for Riley to rebuild something, it will have to be able to happen immediately, which would mean Wade or Bosh leaving or being on a tiny contract to bring in another star.
Whether another team can offer him a better set of teammates I have no idea, we'll see I guess.
Houston and Chicago could offer him a chance to play with stars but I really doubt he leaves.
Sterling banned for life from the Clippers.
Good decision, no place for that cnut.
Good decision, no place for that cnut.
In a league dominated by black people it really was another level of stupid he displayed.
Agreed. I'm glad the newish commissioner came down hard on him, sends out the correct message.
Apparently Magic wants to buy the Clippers. Would rather he buy the Lakers if he has the money...
Adam Silver isn't messing around. Sterling's past behavior should have gotten him into more trouble but David Stern and the NBA did nothing.
It leaked in the middle of the playoffs too, although it does seem Sterling has a history of being a nasty piece of work.
Pleased with the ban decision and I hope they somehow manage to force him to sell the Clippers.
Wow. Silver nuked Sterling. Excellent move, although I feel this will be dragged out for a while.
Don't want Magic to get the Clippers, not a fan.
Don't want Magic to get the Clippers, not a fan.
Read this one tirade against the league this morning because it has taken them a little over 2 days to come to this decision. The person actually argued that two days was too much time, that it should have acted within hours. Now granted in this day and age 2 days gives everyone in the world a chance to hear the story 500 times or more, but the league did have a responsibility to do at least a little investigation into this didn't they?
I think two days is actually a pretty quick turn-around even on something this blatant.
Now it will be up to his fellow owners to step up and force him to sell the Clippers.
I think two days is actually a pretty quick turn-around even on something this blatant.
Now it will be up to his fellow owners to step up and force him to sell the Clippers.
Some people can never be pleased. NBA could not have come out with a harsher punishment.
I feel for the Clippers fans today.
I'm glad the punishment came before the game, to allow them (and the players) to breath a little, and concentrate on the game tonight, but it's still a very unfortunate situation for them.
I mean even I am actually confused now about whom to support. I would love the Clippers players to win now, but in the end that's still Sterling's club, and any success will, whether we wanted or not, be his.
I hope he sells the club soon to clean up this mess, and I think he will. Sponsors, fans, players, and everybody will eventually look away and that will cost him a lot of money. He's not that stupid. I think he'll sell this Summer.
By the way, anybody knows how those recordings were leaked/recorded?
I'm glad the punishment came before the game, to allow them (and the players) to breath a little, and concentrate on the game tonight, but it's still a very unfortunate situation for them.
I mean even I am actually confused now about whom to support. I would love the Clippers players to win now, but in the end that's still Sterling's club, and any success will, whether we wanted or not, be his.
I hope he sells the club soon to clean up this mess, and I think he will. Sponsors, fans, players, and everybody will eventually look away and that will cost him a lot of money. He's not that stupid. I think he'll sell this Summer.
By the way, anybody knows how those recordings were leaked/recorded?
Her lawyer denies she had anything to do with the recordings, however after listening to a lot of sports radio in the last few days, many pundits and callers think she was indeed the one who recorded and released the audio.
No one should have to go through that. My PM box is always open if you need anything. We'll get through this together.
Buy the Clippers, trade CP3, Blake and DJ to the Lakers for basketball reasons
Meh, doubt he'll move to the Western Conference where it's so competitive that he's as likely to go to the NBA finals as it is for him to drop out of the playoffs after the first round.
I'm not one to jump on the bash Westbrook Express, but his team is down by 12 points, yet he has twice as many shots as Durant. Insane.
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The way I see it, it's both Durant and Westbrook's fault. Westbrook tries to do too much, but Durant has to call him out for it and take charge.
I agree. Him and Brooks need to tell Westbrook to make smarter shots, and look to distribute more, this is the playoffs.
I see the Thunder losing this game. 12 point deficit at halftime, Randolph and Miller are purring right now for the Grizzlies, Reggie Jackson has reverted back to cold form.
So if OKC gets out in the first round, does Durant still get MVP?
Wiz in second round for first time since 2005. Roll on second round.
Yes he does, it's based on the regular season. Deserves it to be fair.
The Grizzlies have played excellent defense on him. He's tuning up the aggressiveness so we'll see how the rest of this game goes.
Congratulations, hasn't been the same since Arenas. Who do you face in the second round?
Winner of Atlanta/Pacers series. I'll take either one. Hope that series goes 7-gives us some time to heal up.
Bet you like your chances against Atlanta or Indy.
Yep. At this point even Miami doesn't scare me. But-one game at a time
True. But the current Bobcats team is quite good. Considering how poor Miami were post all-star weekend, I think it was good to see that they had not gone the Pacers way and were simply pacing themselves for the postseason.
They've coasted into the playoffs for the last 3 years, I'm not the least bit surprised.
Another choke by Memphis! Amazing.
That's got to hurt.
The Grizzlies escaped with the win, but this series has shaved 10 years off my lifespan