LeBron James Discussion: Not Returning To The Lakers

I believe there's a decent-to-good shot we end up trading one of the young guys for a more established guy, but the contracts would have to match and that would be difficult, so what's better? Keeping the young guy who is talented as all hell or getting an underpaid veteran? I don't know. That's all really difficult to speculate on.

But there's no chance they're trading Ball and they'll likely still keep around guys like Nance and Hart who are so useful and so cheap. Why move them? They work so well in any system, they're literally perfect for guys like George and LeBron. You might move Ingram or Kuzma maybe, but only for a star so I'm not going to write it off completely, but I'll wait until that bridge gets here to cross it.

 

Probably Ingram between Ingram and Kuzma. Ingram is better and his contract is bigger. Having 3 really good role players for a combined 6 million dollars is invaluable.

 

Right but any return would be a guy of Kevin Love impact otherwise why bother, so I'm not going to get too upset at the mere thought of it. I'm sure the Cavs would like to have Wiggins more than Love today, but hey they won a title, so how can they really complain, right?

 

But for where they're about to be in a rebuild, I think Wiggins is maybe better for them. Not to mention they're severely lacking in athletic guys capable of defending right now. Either way, if we trade for a guy like Love (hopefully better) with one of our young kids I can live with that. Maybe you can trade Ingram/Deng for Marc Gasol or something, I don't know. But you end up with Ball/George/LeBron/Kuzma/Gasol with Nance and Hart off the bench. Add in Wade and some other ring chasers. That's a crazy good team.

There's a lot of different avenues forward though.

 

IF James were to will this rag-tag, out of gas group that he has now to The Finals past Toronto and the best team record wise in their conference, he deserves the props. It will be nauseating love fest from the media doe however...

 

Actually Brian Windhorst has been very tough on him surprisingly (and deservedly).


http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/22312359/lebron-james-cavaliers-chaos-unprecedented-running-out

There's a clip somewhere where Windhorst said that LeBron's effort level has been unacceptable lately.

 

http://www.slamonline.com/nba/brian-windhorst-cavs-nothing-deadline-buying-lebron-plane-ticket/

Windhorst says if the Cavs do nothing, it basically shuts the door on LeBron returning.

 

I’ve been hearing all day that they should trade IT, and I agree. I know he’s not 100% yet, but he clearly doesn’t fit. When your team runs better offensively with Jose Calderon starting than IT, you have a problem.

 

I did not see their game against Orlando but there were comments that James quit on them. Not a good look... Yet in a post-game interview, he did state that he has not and will keep fighting. The expected canned answers. Cleveland has become the story of the season. On the Players Only panel, Webber-O'Neal-Thomas did not think their current state of play will get them anywhere. Baron Davis however differed. That proverbial switch thing...

I did have a laugh as to how Greg Anthony was bashing them during the OKC-Golden State game. It got to the point where he said he was not trashing them but that they were doing it to themselves.

 

...that is just unbelievable. Crazy. You'd think James would have attempted to stem the tide from Orlando. Was it a collective "don't give a ****" I wonder.

That "Montell Jordan couldn't help this team" comment? Priceless.