LeBron James Leaning Towards Heat?
by John Bena (aka CavsBlogger) on Jul 8, 2010 5:49 AM CDT
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The unexpected increase in the NBA salary cap has the Miami Heat possibly on the verge of a major coup in the NBA - signing three mega-free agents including LeBron James. That is the report from Brian Windhorst this morning on Cleveland.com.
According to Windhorst, James is 'leaning towards' signing with the Heat tonight, joining Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh in South Beach.
Chris Broussard reported this morning that several people in LeBron's camp are urging him to return to Cleveland, including close friend Chris Paul of the New Orleans Hornets. Paul is still close with former Hornets coach Byron Scott who is now the head man of the Cavaliers.
Chris Paul, one of James' best friends, has urged him to stay in Cleveland and let new Cavaliers coach Byron Scott coach him, according to sources. With such strong sentiment around him to not go to Miami, it's possible James could alter his decision.
Broussard also reports that while James' heart is still in Cleveland, concerns about his age - or his age at the end of a max contract - are weighing on LeBron.
While sources close to James insist his heart is in Cleveland and remaining with the Cavaliers was his preferred choice, they say he had concerns about signing a six-year deal there and ending up "31 years old, with bad knees and no title."
Some in the NBA even think this reported is being floated by LeBron's camp to see what the reaction would be.
LeBron is an emotional guy and clearly emotion is playing a big part. It's fluid and is likely to change all day...
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If LeBron holds this press conference on ESPN tonight......
….to announce he’s leaving, I’d pretty much have to nominate him for NARCISSISTIC DOUCHER of the year….I hope he stays, but if doesn’t, and does it this way, then I say F**K him!
I mean, if he’s going to let all the fans and the city down, and crush everyone’s souls tonight, couldn’t he at least have the common courtesy to do it in a little less painful and blatantly over-publicized way…?
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You’re right. He’s been that way for a while now, and whether he stays or goes, he still be a “NARCISSISTIC DOUCHER.”
its funny that rhe cavs fans are just now realizing this.
welcome to the “pray for lebron to get suffer a career ending injury” fun!
I’m not sure if this has been discussed here or not, but isn’t CP3’s contract up next year? doesn’t he love Biron Scott? won’t the cavs have a bunch of cap space?
I hate the steelers the way a mother loves a child.
by notthatnoise on Jul 8, 2010 11:16 AM CDT up reply actions
If LeBron makes this hour-long special about how he's leaving...
My favorite non-Cavs player just became Kevin Durant. LeBron can suck a dick.
by sexsalad on Jul 8, 2010 8:42 AM CDT reply actions 3 recs
Eh
I really doubt he is going to Miami. If he does, the next 6 NBA championships are pretty much spoken for.
Even if he makes the move, I’m still going to be a LeBron fan. Cavs fan first, but I’ll still root for him.
I won’t be able to root for LeBron again. Sure, he’s still a great player etc., but I’ll never want the guy to win a ring.
Really?
Once the Cavs are eliminated, I would definitely root for him over whatever teams are left. I see no reason not to.
Look, the guy can choose wherever in the USA (and Canada, I guess) that he wants to live and play for the next 6 years. I don’t think I’m going to hate him for not choosing a place where he’s spent his entire life. Maybe he wants a new perspective and to get away from Cleveland for a little while. For once, he wouldn’t be following the money.
I won’t hold a grudge. He’s the best in the world at his sport. I want him to remain in Cleveland, but he I certainly don’t hold it against him to choose otherwise.
I guess we will have to agree to disagree. I don’t think I could see him hoisting a championship trophy up in Miami without getting a sick and bitter feeling.
Back in the regular season, I used to think that if LeBron left I could share the same feelings as you do right now. But now that it actually might be happening, I just can’t.
Yeah
It will definitely suck a lot to see him win with Miami, but I just can’t hate him for the decision.
I can. Not the leaving to join a trio of narcissistic douchenozzles part. The announcing he’s leaving his hometown team via an hour-long TV special part. Getting stabbed in the back is bad enough, without the televised salt-rubbing.
I hope he’s booed mercilessly when the Heat come to town. I hope the Heat are embarrassed in the Finals by the Lakers.
by FredOx on Jul 8, 2010 11:05 AM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
best in the world at his sport???
his playoff performance says otherwise
Never trust a fart
by AB's triple double on Jul 8, 2010 10:48 AM CDT up reply actions
and you can ball with an elbow injury on your shooting arm I’m sure…
I hate the steelers the way a mother loves a child.
by notthatnoise on Jul 8, 2010 11:15 AM CDT up reply actions
I don’t really understand this “stabbed in the back” nonsense. In what world does LeBron owe the Cavs anything at all?
There isn’t any rule that the hometown star can’t leave his hometown. It would completely suck. He’s a 25 year old athlete who can play anywhere he wants to without worrying about money. Would everyone here stay in Cleveland? I sort of doubt it.
I wouldn’t be so dismissive. It’d be incredibly tragic to lose a player of Lebron’s caliber especially considering that he would be leaving money on the table. The same holds true for players in other sports like baseball where guys have left for greener pastures.
True and it’s going to suck and will mean the end of a fun period of Cleveland basketball. I’m not trying to dismiss the fact that losing LeBron is probably the worst thing that could happen to Cleveland sports and maybe the worst thing ever, besides the Browns leaving (although with that outfit, it’s almost a blessing).
I just don’t understand why we feel that LeBron owes it to us to come back to Cleveland. He’s not “stabbing us in the back” he’s just choosing a different team and city.
I think people are saying “stabbing in the back” because he is doing it on an hour long TV show. I hadn’t heard stabbing in the back being thrown around until it was in conjunction with the one hour special. Bill Simmons has a really good article up on it right now which I basically agree with.
Link?
And Cols, while there’s no obligation for LeBron to stay, the way he handled the free agency in general disgusts me. He was doing this teasing/mind game thing with the fans for quite some time. Now he’s going to announce he’s leaving/why in a one hour special? If he cared at all about Cleveland, he would hold a press conference like any other athlete would. All the announcers and “experts” are going to dump on Cleveland, and it really pisses me off. I can bet we’ll hear something like “The Shot, the Drive, the Fumble… and now, the Decision.”
The link. And the money quote:
I can’t wait to watch for the same reasons I couldn’t turn away from O.J.‘s Bronco chase or the Artest melee: it’s Car Wreck Television. If LeBron picks anyone other than the Cavaliers, it will be the cruelest television moment since David Chase ended “The Sopranos” by making everyone think they lost power. Cleveland fans will never forgive LeBron, nor should they. He knows better than anyone what kind of sports anguish they have suffered over the years. Losing LeBron on a contrived one-hour show would be worse than Byner’s fumble, Jose Mesa, the Game 5 meltdown against Boston, The Drive, The Shot and everything else. At least those stomach-punch moments weren’t preordained, unless you believe God hates Cleveland (entirely possible, by the way). This stomach-punch moment? Calculated. By a local kid they loved, defended and revered.It would be unforgivable. Repeat: unforgivable. I don’t have a dog in this race — as a Celtics fan, I wanted to see him go anywhere but Chicago — but LeBron doing this show after what happened in the 2010 playoffs actually turned me against him. No small feat. I was one of his biggest defenders. Not anymore.
Never in the history of sports has there been a bigger f-you to a city than the hour-long dumpfest that LeBron is planning for tonight. That’s the knife in the back.
LeBron can go to hell.
by FredOx on Jul 8, 2010 12:30 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
I don’t even want to hear him apologize to the city or thank the fans or whatever the hell he’s planning on doing. Screw him.
It’s going to take a really long time, but you gotta believe that Gilbert can at least get us to a respectable level after this fiasco. We’ve got a good coach coming in, hopefully. It’s going to hurt for a long time, but after LeBron… life will go on. It’ll suck for awhile, but it will.
Also.
I can’t remember when this was said but:
“When I look at myself, I’m not representing LeBron now. I’m representing the league, the city of Akron, the city of Cleveland…"
That’s why we feel a bit betrayed. He represented Akron/Cleveland, and now he’s going to just dump on it tonight.
Also, I was reading comments on Waiting for Next Year:
“Miami retired MJ’s number 23 because Pat Riley said nobody else should wear it — that’s how digusting of a franchise the Heat is — it was the FIRST NUMBER EVER RETIRED BY THEM!!!! — Then, Lebron says he is changing his number to 6 to "respect Jordan" — He knew all along he wanted to play with Wade and Bosh (who looks like that dinosaur from A Land Before Time) so number 23 was never even available in Miami — he wanted people to think he was changing because of his love of MJ, but really its because he couldn’t wear it in Chi-Town or Miami — this has been planned for over a year now.”
If this is true, it wouldn’t shock me. I’m so disgusted.
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