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bulls cleared cap room with the hinric trade
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that would be unstopable. they would own the nba. but do u think him and wade could coexist on the same team with one ball. both are stars and would want the ball.
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yea i know saw that but who would really want to go to the bulls and have to live in mj shadow. no matter what u did it would be compared to mj.
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I totally agree ND1 about the MJ shadow, but Lebron seems intrigued. After trading Hinrich the Bulls better make a splash w/ the cap room they cleared....I say he stays in Cleveland, but if he leaves he will end up in Chicago w/ Bosh, or Boozer, or Joe Johnson.
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everyone lives in that shadow. i got my ass handed to me on the kobe thread lol
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im a lakers fan. that would not bother me at all
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i know it wuldn't with kobe and pou and u add bosh that would be really good. all they would need is a point gaurd because fisher can not gaurd anybody. hits big shots but d is terrible.
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i agree he cant guard the elite no more, but i do like big shots and this guy seems to have a endless supply
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You a cowboys fan too? lol
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That's the one they were talking about this morning, and as a Laker fan, that does scare the shit out of me. However, as ND1 said, there is only one ball, and those are 2 MEGA-SUPERSTARS, and they'd have to completely drop their ego off at the door for them to be able to work together. This isn't like the Celtics, where you had 3 veterans at the end of their careers badly in need of a ring. This is 2 guys in their primes, especially LeBron, and do you think LeBron will be willing to go into another superstar's city, perhaps be the 2nd most loved athlete, AND have to share the ball in the 4th quarter? He doesn't just want to win, he wants to win and be the man, as does Wade (as does Kobe).
Who takes the shot in the 4th quarter to win the game? And how long to do you think they'll be happy with that? In Boston, you had Kevin Garnett who never liked to have the ball in the 4th, and you had Ray Allen who couldn't really create his own shot under intense pressure, so it fell to Pierce, who was money. It worked for them. But I just don't see LeBron and Wade working together, just because of the ego thing.
Speaking of LeBron, I've been wanting to say this forever, so allow me to speak a bit on him. (Full disclosure, I'm a HUGE Kobe/Laker fan.) First of all, when you can put up 25 points and 19 rebounds in a playoff game and STILL get ripped, you're a stud. But he needs to get serious about this basketball thing in a Kobe way. He's a global icon, a dancer, a clown, the best bball player alive during the regular season, but that shit don't work in the playoffs. I said it all year long...all that dancing crap and frontrunning and clowning teams when you're up by 20 doesn't translate into postseason success.
True story: At the Olympics, Kobe got a phone call in front of LeBron, and the person asked if Kobe wanted to go out. Kobe said no, because he had a 4:30 a.m. workout. This was DURING THE SUMMER. LeBron was shocked, and he said it let him know how hard Kobe worked and how hard he needed to work. And I do think LeBron works extremely hard, but he also has other visions, and I don't see him being on the level of Jordan and Kobe, as far as winning, until he gets that singular focus.
Anyway, if I'm Lebron, I go to Chicago. They have a team ready to win. The Knicks don't even have any roster pieces in play yet, Miami has only 2-3 guys on contract plus you have the whole Wade-LeBron thing. The next place I go to after Chi is Cleveland. That team won 60 games the past 2 seasons...I can't stand it when people say they don't have any talent outside of LeBron. They were good enough to be the BEST team in the league last year...don't tell me they don't have any talent. They just need some tweaking to the roster, and they need to somehow get the stones to play like MEN in the playoffs (maybe quit dancing so much during the regular season???).
Regardless, it's the summer of LeBron...and the rest of the NBA will be dominoes after he chooses...
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i think bron and bosh could work in chi town. bosh seems to me to be the player that would take a back set to bron. the could run it thru bosh inside then kick it out to bronfor him to take his shots or drive to the hole
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lol....... sometimes, moved around quite a bit. born in mass and hate boston nation, makes reunions weird
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Lebron to the Bulls with the current state of the team (bulls) makes me nervous as a Lakers fan. that team is ready to strike as is, if they add Lebron - watch out! As far as the MJ comparisons, Lebron has already got a free pass, one that not even MJ got himself. He is already acceepted in alot of circles as the best player, even tho he has never won a championship. not even Jordan was 'accepted' into the Bird-Magic group until he won a title. Bird used to say (talking about the 63pt game vs celtics in the playoffs) "let him score all those points, we won the game." it wasnt really until the original dream team (the summer after the bulls beat the lakers) was Jordan a full-fledged accepted member of that group. But Lebron has somehow got a pass, and i dont think the MJ comparisons would be negatively slated at him; as opposed to if say Kobe Bryant went to the Bulls. (Kobe will be villified in the MJ shadow)
I think Lebron is going to sign a 2-3 year deal with CLE. At the end of that contract the New Jersey Nets should have their new building in Brooklyn, and he will then slide in to that team with new building, and a retooled roster and an owner with maybne the deepest pockets in the league..
Who would play center? Bosh and Pau both play PF. if you put Pau at the center he will lose some of his effectiveness(match up wise). Believe it or not, I think it makes more sense to move Lamar Kardashian and Jordan Farmar for Bosh. But then that leaves a huge whole on the Laker bench (Lamar does, Farmar is totally expendable). Maybe the Lakers can add someone like Tony Parker to come off the bench. even then, it doesnt compare to Lamar coming off the bench. even with Lamar's inconsistant play, he was the 2nd team leader and best bench player and of course a walking mismatch at any position he plays.
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I really don't know who would play ccenter but either one could play there besides what would u do stop pou then bosh would kill u and vice versa and then u still have kobe and artet and fisher from the outside.
o i would love for lebron to come to the bulls.that would put the bulls back on the vege. I still think u would need maybe one mor good not great player.somebody that could knock down the outside shot.
o i would love for lebron to come to the bulls.that would put the bulls back on the vege. I still think u would need maybe one mor good not great player.somebody that could knock down the outside shot.
He says he wants to win championships, Lebron can start that this year in Chi-town. Think Bosh ends up there too. Huge Raptors fan but CB4 is not happy about taking the last second shot, too much pressure for him. Would be great on the wing flying down the court in transition with Lebron, he's a good passer too. Would also allow CB4 more set shots which he does better with and then he can stop with the so-so fadeaway jumper. Of course the same could be said if CB4 goes to Miami (minus instant finals run). I'm hoping Boozer ends up in T.O. as he's a solid worker who can defend and plays every night.
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It's either the cavs or the bulls. The knicks are just a complete mess and even with lebrona and bosh or amare they'd still have a ways to go, plus mike d'antoni's offense can't win in the nba and i think/hope lebron is smart enough to realize that. No way he goes to miami. Him and wade would't work especially at the end of games.
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I think the Knicks are out of it too....He can go to NJ (who has plans on moving to brooklyn) and get all the benefits of living in NY without having to play for the Knicks. Plus the Prokohrov wants to win, and has the $$$$ to make it happen. He is different than someone like Daniel Snyder, Prokohrov knows how to build a team, not just throwing money at a team.
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True. Plus last i knew the nets were moving to Brooklyn. For some reason I completely forgot about the nets
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True, but for 2 seasons he'd be living in and playing in what many people consider a dump of a city and building. That cannot be be highlighted enough, how bad/boring people say that area is. I don't have first-hand knowledge of it, and maybe Jersey folks can help set me straight, but make so mistake, he's NOT getting the New York glamour for at least the first 2 years he's there.
The one calling card the Nets have though, is Jay-Z. Maybe Jay-Z can get LeBron to be there for those 2 years until they move to Brooklyn...