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Interesting developments in Miami:

http://espn.go.com/nba/truehoop/miamihea...miami-heat

If you can't make one friend, make two enemies!

(06-24-2014 08:47 AM)Hokie Mark Wrote: [ -> ]If you can't make one friend, make two enemies!

Unless he heads back home with Kyrie Irving and Jabari Parker....

(06-24-2014 08:44 AM)Maize Wrote: [ -> ]Interesting developments in Miami:

http://espn.go.com/nba/truehoop/miamihea...miami-heat

Doesn't really mean anything until you see what Bosh and Wade do. For example if they all opt out, it means they are opting out to take less money.

(06-24-2014 09:08 AM)adcorbett Wrote: [ -> ]

(06-24-2014 08:44 AM)Maize Wrote: [ -> ]Interesting developments in Miami:

http://espn.go.com/nba/truehoop/miamihea...miami-heat

Doesn't really mean anything until you see what Bosh and Wade do. For example if they all opt out, it means they are opting out to take less money.

Presumably, to free up cap space to add more talented role players. They will be losing a couple of excellent ones to old age.

(06-24-2014 09:08 AM)adcorbett Wrote: [ -> ]

(06-24-2014 08:44 AM)Maize Wrote: [ -> ]Interesting developments in Miami:

http://espn.go.com/nba/truehoop/miamihea...miami-heat

Doesn't really mean anything until you see what Bosh and Wade do. For example if they all opt out, it means they are opting out to take less money.

True...but he has options...also, one of the rumors out there is LeBron and Kevin Love to Cleveland...with Irving they win the East and it is a much younger/more talented team than the current Heat...the NBA has the most interesting off season....

(06-24-2014 09:15 AM)Maize Wrote: [ -> ]

(06-24-2014 09:08 AM)adcorbett Wrote: [ -> ]

(06-24-2014 08:44 AM)Maize Wrote: [ -> ]Interesting developments in Miami:

http://espn.go.com/nba/truehoop/miamihea...miami-heat

Doesn't really mean anything until you see what Bosh and Wade do. For example if they all opt out, it means they are opting out to take less money.

True...but he has options...also, one of the rumors out there is LeBron and Kevin Love to Cleveland...with Irving they win the East and it is a much younger/more talented team than the current Heat...the NBA has the most interesting off season....

Could Cleveland pull that off without giving up its top draft pick?

(06-24-2014 09:28 AM)ken d Wrote: [ -> ]

(06-24-2014 09:15 AM)Maize Wrote: [ -> ]

(06-24-2014 09:08 AM)adcorbett Wrote: [ -> ]

(06-24-2014 08:44 AM)Maize Wrote: [ -> ]Interesting developments in Miami:

http://espn.go.com/nba/truehoop/miamihea...miami-heat

Doesn't really mean anything until you see what Bosh and Wade do. For example if they all opt out, it means they are opting out to take less money.

True...but he has options...also, one of the rumors out there is LeBron and Kevin Love to Cleveland...with Irving they win the East and it is a much younger/more talented team than the current Heat...the NBA has the most interesting off season....

Could Cleveland pull that off without giving up its top draft pick?

I would give up the Top Pick for Kevin Love and you know you're getting LeBron....my guess is 65% Miami...35% Cleveland...he still live in Akron during the offseason.

(06-24-2014 09:28 AM)ken d Wrote: [ -> ]

(06-24-2014 09:15 AM)Maize Wrote: [ -> ]

(06-24-2014 09:08 AM)adcorbett Wrote: [ -> ]

(06-24-2014 08:44 AM)Maize Wrote: [ -> ]Interesting developments in Miami:

http://espn.go.com/nba/truehoop/miamihea...miami-heat

Doesn't really mean anything until you see what Bosh and Wade do. For example if they all opt out, it means they are opting out to take less money.

True...but he has options...also, one of the rumors out there is LeBron and Kevin Love to Cleveland...with Irving they win the East and it is a much younger/more talented team than the current Heat...the NBA has the most interesting off season....

Could Cleveland pull that off without giving up its top draft pick?
Haven't done much with the others

http://espn.go.com/new-york/nba/story/_/...bron-james

To be clear, Melo wants to play with LeBron James. And, from what I'm being told, LeBron James wants to play with Melo. Assuming circumstances are ideal for them to do so. Sources tell ESPN's Brian Windhorst and Marc Stein that the Heat are preparing to make a run at Melo this summer in free agency, hoping to add him to the Big Three of LeBron, Wade and Bosh.

As far as Melo and LeBron are concerned, they would've been together already had Melo embraced the advice from James, one of his friends in the league, back in 2006, to sign a contract in 2007 with an opt-out after three seasons -- just like James, Chris Bosh and Dwyane Wade did -- to make himself available for summer 2010.

It was Melo's decision to refrain, to take the five-year, $80 million deal offered by the Denver Nuggets, throwing a proverbial monkey wrench in James' plans. Essentially, the Big 3 could've easily been James, Wade and Melo ... instead of Bosh.

Melo blew it!

But that was then. This is now. And Carmelo Anthony, back then, didn't have the 11 years of NBA experience or the stable, business-savvy family life he has now.

Melo is a different man. With a far more substantive arsenal.

The future is just as important as right now. And quality of life is far more important than dollars and cents.

Here comes LeBron James.

Understand, the possibility of getting LBJ is slim. Annually, James is competing for championships. He's doing so surrounded by palm trees and gorgeous weather, for a first-class organization led by a first-class executive in Pat Riley with five titles on his resume. He's doing it in a place devoid of state income taxes and with a cheaper cost of living, with all of it serving as its own recruiting tool for prospective free agents-to-come.

What LeBron cares about is the roster he's playing with. The organization assembling it. And being happy, because the future is bright wherever he lands.

Winning is almost everything.

Winning with friends is everything!
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Good thing I'm not a fan of the Heat. Otherwise Marge Schott would say something grumpy to me. Oh dear

(06-24-2014 01:55 PM)Ole Blue Wrote: [ -> ]Good thing I'm not a fan of the Heat. Otherwise Marge Schott would say something grumpy to me. Oh dear

This is how I know I've already won.

Everybody knew he was going to opt out. Who the hell cares? It's what happens next that people are interested in, be they pro-Heat or anti-.

I'm a Spurs fan until their current team disbands. No NBA allegiance otherwise.

if lebron wants to play with melo and melo goes to the bulls, I will have to disown the bulls while/if he is there. lebron and the bulls: JUST SAY NO.

Which of the possible teams has the most salary cap room?

(06-24-2014 09:08 AM)adcorbett Wrote: [ -> ]

(06-24-2014 08:44 AM)Maize Wrote: [ -> ]Interesting developments in Miami:

http://espn.go.com/nba/truehoop/miamihea...miami-heat

Doesn't really mean anything until you see what Bosh and Wade do. For example if they all opt out, it means they are opting out to take less money.

Wade would be stupid to opt out, tbh. He's a role player at this point. His body has broken down too much.

real story are the Miami Fans opting out on the early termination clause

(06-24-2014 08:57 PM)bronconick Wrote: [ -> ]

(06-24-2014 09:08 AM)adcorbett Wrote: [ -> ]

(06-24-2014 08:44 AM)Maize Wrote: [ -> ]Interesting developments in Miami:

http://espn.go.com/nba/truehoop/miamihea...miami-heat

Doesn't really mean anything until you see what Bosh and Wade do. For example if they all opt out, it means they are opting out to take less money.

Wade would be stupid to opt out, tbh. He's a role player at this point. His body has broken down too much.

In a pure $$$$ case both Bosh and Wade would be stupid to opt out...neither are Max players at this point...going to be interesting until 30 June the Deadline...

Lebron James is on UM's campus shooting a commercial for McDonald's today.
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(06-25-2014 06:27 AM)Maize Wrote: [ -> ]

(06-24-2014 08:57 PM)bronconick Wrote: [ -> ]

(06-24-2014 09:08 AM)adcorbett Wrote: [ -> ]

(06-24-2014 08:44 AM)Maize Wrote: [ -> ]Interesting developments in Miami:

http://espn.go.com/nba/truehoop/miamihea...miami-heat

Doesn't really mean anything until you see what Bosh and Wade do. For example if they all opt out, it means they are opting out to take less money.

Wade would be stupid to opt out, tbh. He's a role player at this point. His body has broken down too much.

In a pure $$$$ case both Bosh and Wade would be stupid to opt out...neither are Max players at this point...going to be interesting until 30 June the Deadline...

Bosh is fine. If he went to some other team and became their #1 or #2 he'd put up nice numbers again. He sacrificed a lot, personally-professionally, to win those 2 titles.

Wade didn't "deserve" what he was to be paid based on the quality of play he would have been putting out but most contracts reward you for past play, and in that sense he did deserve it. And he's far from a role player. That's nonsense. Though he's clearly not at the top of his game anymore.

Was wrong about Bosh with the Rockets offering the Max according to reports...appears to be either Miami or Cleveland for LeBron with Riley flying today to Vegas for his pitch...Boussard on ESPN feels Cleveland is the slight leader for James.