boozapalooza wrote:This summer might really get crazy if Lebron forces his way to Cleveland. Its the perfect move for him and maybe for the Lakers too. Lebron could have an incredibly easy path to the Finals in the East vs having almost no shot in the West. Cavs have the ammo to pull it off.
Deal centered around Garland/Allen for Lebron. Cavs go all in on this season and are the unquestioned favorites in the East with Lebron/Mitchell/Mobley. Would be the best way for Lebron to go out in his last 1-2 years. Lakers build around Luka with a great backcourt scorer and legit big man. Luka/Garland/Allen/Reaves is a great young core.
The smoke around this is starting today. Worth monitoring.
LeBron to Cleveland would be hilarious, but not doing himself any favors with his history of picking the easiest path.
Miami - Cavs were tapped out with all the terrible win now moves so he joins the Heatles. Then ditches old Wade, Bosh and the scraps leftover from dumping every asset into that 4 year window.
Cleveland - Retools the roster around him with the surplus of assets from essentially tanking in the 4 years he was gone. Kyrie reads the room and dips out, the Cavs sh#t the bed on the retool (shocking!) and they even make a trade with the Lakers that grease the wheels for him to leave FOR the Lakers the following offseason.
Lakers - Jumps to the Lakers and tries to recruit Kawhi/PG, fails and then Klutches AD from the Pels.
Back to Cleveland? - Scrapheap of a roster,
somehow manages to get Luka for AD and Christie, but still nowhere near ready to compete without a major retool around Luka. Leaves to join up with the previous #1 seed in a depleted East with Mitchell/Mobley (DPOY) who at times have been compared to Wade/Bosh. Although I heard more KG comps for Mobley than anything.
As a sports fan I hate the whole jumping ship to stack the deck, but you have to commend the guy on his savvy.
LeBron's been able to manage his career better than anyone else in the sport and doing so while moving on as a FA. He has never asked for a trade because he was able to maneuver things as he needed and left when the time was right. It is super impressive and would be lauded in basically any other field.
If this man was an actor (like that was his actual profession, save the Space Jam 2 jokes
) we'd be talking about how he always managed to work with the best actors and directors while being a producer of his own films.
