NBA: Will LeBron James play for Miami next year?
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Kane isn't going to come close to producing like Wade(honestly even if you are talking about Wade just playing PG). Though he'd be an improvement at PG for them over Cole and possibly Chalmers.
Man, Carmelo's game matches up so well with LeBron's that would be fun to watch. Slide him right into the battier/lewis/mike miller role and I just can't imagine what an offensive player like Melo would do with so many wide open shots.
It's not going to happen because Carmelo isn't walking away from all the money NY is going to throw at him but damn that would be so much fun.
It's not going to happen because Carmelo isn't walking away from all the money NY is going to throw at him but damn that would be so much fun.
CycloneErik
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Sounds like Melo will opt out of his last year of his contract. Bron Bron to the Knicks likely isn't happening.
I expect Lebron to stay in Miami at least one more season and trust Pat Riley to retool the roster effectively. The key will be Wade. I suspect that Riley is crossing his fingers that Wade decides to hang 'em up after this season so he doesn't have to pay him 8-10 mil to sit out a third of the regular season only to give them a handful of good games in the postseason. At 32 with arthritic knees he just can't be a consistently effective player anymore.
I don't think Melo and Lebron would mesh as well as you guys think they would. Melo is a volume scorer, sure, but he's pretty inefficient. Doesn't do anything else, either. Not a team player or winner. However, LeBron on a team with Steph Curry would be damn fun to watch. Or the clippers. He would be perfect with the clippers.
If Lebron doesn't opt out, he will be there for two more years. Miami has a team option on him in 15-16, and the Heat won't let him go.
Things didn't go the way LeBron wanted them to this year. If history is anything, he's gonna bail ship before the women and children are even allowed to.
Are you sure? I thought it was an Early Termination Option this year, and a Player Option the next year for all three.
Aside from his knees…Dwade's face seems to have gained 10 pounds in the past two years.
Nobody overreact like I'm making some serious accusation, but if it were baseball most would be assuming PEDs with a face swelling up like that.
Nobody overreact like I'm making some serious accusation, but if it were baseball most would be assuming PEDs with a face swelling up like that.
Cleveland Cavaliers of the future
1 Kyrie Irving
2 Carmelo Anthony
3 LeBron James
4 Kevin Love
5 Joel Embiid
+ a bench full of whatever ring-chasing veterans are willing to assume roles and a pay cut for the sake of playing with LeBron and winning 2-3 championships
You heard it here first.
1 Kyrie Irving
2 Carmelo Anthony
3 LeBron James
4 Kevin Love
5 Joel Embiid
+ a bench full of whatever ring-chasing veterans are willing to assume roles and a pay cut for the sake of playing with LeBron and winning 2-3 championships
You heard it here first.
He stays in Miami, but D Wade needs to retire, he can't contribute consistently enough any more. Miami needs that money to add some more quality young depth. That was the difference this year, quality young guys. They got too many old guys that can only give spot minutes.
Cleveland Cavaliers of the future
1 Kyrie Irving
2 Carmelo Anthony
3 LeBron James
4 Kevin Love
5 Joel Embiid
+ a bench full of whatever ring-chasing veterans are willing to assume roles and a pay cut for the sake of playing with LeBron and winning 2-3 championships
You heard it here first.
Cleveland would be $20 million over the salary cap with that starting five before they even started to fill their bench. No way anyone with a choice is going to Cleveland. I've lived there. It's as awful as they say.
This isn[t your daddy's NBA when players signed 25 year contracts two years in. Players actually have a choice where they want to play instead of being indentured servants for the team they were lucky or unlucky to get drafted by. To say the old guys had honor in staying there is silly.
Magic chose what team he wanted to play before he even steppped on the court. He said if Chicago won the coin flip instead of LA and he wasn't going to get to team up with Kareem that he was going to go back to Michigan State for his junior year.
