He said that we couldn’t get value for Lebron without it costing us as much in money. If we got a teams 1st round picks for the next 3 years and their 2nd round picks for the following 2, we would get pretty good value (not the greatest player in the league, of course) and it wouldn’t cost us max money.

you are so wrong it’s painful. not extending this summer means nothing with respect to LeBron’s future intentions with the cavs. zero.

not extending allows him to do 2 things: 1. capitalize on what promises to be the biggest media frenzy any of us has ever seen leading into the summer of ’10, raising an already unthinkably high profile; and 2. keep the pressure on gilbert/ferry/brown to “make moves to stay competitive” (quoting you) and not get complacent.

if he extends (not re-signs, he’s already under contract) this summer, then what leverage does he have to ensure that the cavs won’t go sell off mo, delonte, boobie and the rest to save payroll? how can he be sure they’ll be vigilant in pursuing championship-level talent?

even if he hits free agency, he will resign with the cavs. he knows that, the cavs know that, it’s a matter of exercising leverage. he ain’t going anywhere. and what you DEFINITELY can’t do is decide to trade him b/c of his actions in the summer of ’09. you instantly and immediately eliminate any ability you may have had to keep him on the cavs. i think everyone here would rather the be left standing with nothing, knowing the cavs did absolutely everything they could to keep LeBron in cleveland. trading him would be epically stupid.

and let me go on the record…i think he’ll extend this summer.

It is not true at all that LeBron is guarenteed to leave if he reaches free agency next year. I have no idea why you would say that. I highly doubt that LeBron resigns this summer. It’s in his interest to keep pressure on the Cavs to make moves to keep the team a championship contender. He wants to keep the leverage, so he has no reason to sign an extension this summer.
That being said, I still think he’ll sign an extension next summer and stay in Cleveland. He’s never said anything that would give the indication that he wants to leave.

But there is absolutely no way the Cavs would trade him next year. None. Never would happen. First of all, they’ll be contending for a championship next year and they’ll need him. Secondly, there is no way they could get fair return for him if they did trade him. Third, they’re going to resign him anyways so why would they need to trade him? This would never, ever happen.

And Miami will be in the same position the Cavs are in: They can resign their superstar and have the cap freedom to bring in another. Lebron and Wade are very close.

Why, after writing this paragraph, don’t you consider the fact that maybe D-Wade would, ya know, come to Cleveland?

He’s already better than Kobe.

It is way, way too early in LeBron’s career to worry about that.

who cares man, non of this is real.

well, the LeBron walking part was kind of his entire point, so being wrong about that would be a big knock against this post.

other wrong-ness: “washed-up Shag”, i assume he means shaq, and the man was 3rd team all-nba last year, so washed-up would be incorrect; varejao is not currently signed with the cavs; “walley to slow air-ball”, i assume he means wally (and what a pathetic nickname/cut down), who is also not currently signed with the cavs, nor is he expected to be; and then i won’t even comment on the quality of the comment, but the syntax in “Moe — Play — Off, Choke Williams” is just gross (and wrong). so, this cat is 10,000 kinds of wrong.

but i guess he’s got one supporter in you.

He doesn’t read or listen to what else anyone else says. He’s like all the rest of the Laker trolls who come here just to let us all know that our team sucks and LeBron is guarenteed to leave after next year. He doesn’t want a real conversation about anything.