LeBron is opting out of last 2 year with Miami to become free agent

Loot wrote:

Ironically his best bet now is back to Cleveland. They have enough cap space to sign him and either Melo or Kevin Love and they will have a starting line-up that looks like this-

PG- Irving

SG- Wiggins

SF- Melo or LeBron

PF- LeBron or K Love

C- Hawes

With an excellent new coaching hire in Blatt who is a master of the Princeton offense. Wiggins won't be asked to do too much too soon and they will be a contender right away. That will give them a Big 4.

I thought this thread was worth a bump.

Loot called the Cleveland signing while others were saying he'd sign back with Miami.

Nice call. Lebron - Wiggins will rival Jordan - Pippen. Had to say it. Bring on the critics.

He will never win another championship.

You may be right, but I hope not.

nn wrote:

Nice call. Lebron - Wiggins will rival Jordan - Pippen. Had to say it. Bring on the critics.

You might want to wait until Wiggins actually plays in the league. You do realize Larry Hughes and Mo Williams were also called Lebron's "Pippen".

The rumors from Cleveland have been that they would then trade Wiggins to get Kevin Love, so LeBron may not end up playing with Wiggins. If they trade Wiggins, then you have to figure that he'll turn out to be a star, given their lack of basketball acumen. The rumor is that they'll also try to sign Mike Miller and Ray Allen, to give LeBron his favorite shooters from Miami (letting Miller leave to save on luxury tax was one of the foolish things that Arison did last year to lessen their title hopes). In Cleveland, currently, the lineup looks something like this:

LBJ

Kyrie Irving (#'s something like 20/7/5 last year)

Andrew Wiggins

Tristan Thompson

Anderson Varejao

Anthony Bennett (#1 pick last year, but was terrible almost the entire year--he went weeks without making a single shot)

Dion Waiters (can't play with Irving but actually played like a scoring/dishing point guard in a couple of stints with Irving out--a gunner and one on one player)

They traded away Tyler Zeller, who had a bad rookie year, and Jarrett Jack, plus an Eastern bloc guy Sergei something, to free up cap space for LBJ.

As currently constituted, they probably will not win any championships unless Wiggins turns into something very impressive. With Love instead, they lose defense and we'll have to see--they'd have some great pieces but would they be able to play together?

jjjjjjjjj wrote:

With Love instead, they lose defense and we'll have to see--they'd have some great pieces but would they be able to play together?

Andy V, when healthy is the best defensive player in the league.

If people really watched Cleveland, they excelled because in the 4th quarter Andy and Lebron would trap the other teams best player and the other team wouldn't score. Even the night Wade and Lebron went at each other with over 40 points, the game was decided when they trapped Wade in the corner, stole the ball and scored the winning layup.

As for playing together, that is NEVER a problem on any of Lebron's teams.

not so recent history wrote:

jjjjjjjjj wrote:

With Love instead, they lose defense and we'll have to see--they'd have some great pieces but would they be able to play together?

Andy V, when healthy is the best defensive player in the league.

If people really watched Cleveland, they excelled because in the 4th quarter Andy and Lebron would trap the other teams best player and the other team wouldn't score. Even the night Wade and Lebron went at each other with over 40 points, the game was decided when they trapped Wade in the corner, stole the ball and scored the winning layup.

Really? "Trapped" them? No matter where they were on court? Did you mean double the ball? And an NBA coach couldn't figure this out? And get ball reversed? I'm skeptical.

Forgive me, I don't watch much NBA, but didn't Cleveland lose to Boston a few times in play-offs? Who were they "trapping"? Pierce? Didn't work if so, did it?

And define excelled please.

Man, I shouldn't read any threads about basketball on running site.

If anyone cares the Cavs are going to lose the first game of the homecoming.