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Texas Longhorns wrote:http://basketball.realgm.com/src_wiretap_archives/53939/20080809/lebron_ill_play_anywhere/

I think that LeBron should just stay with the NBA. He won't get more spotlight over there in europe than what he gets here. He already makes plenty of money, but you never know LeBron, he hangs out with billionaires so he may just go after the money.

TheOUTLAW wrote:He said that he'd have alot of options if he opted out of his contract but that being said, why start another thread when one covering the exact same topic is still on the first page?

Olympics extend Bryant’s global reach

For now, Bryant is constructing a formidable game of leverage with his admission to Yahoo! Sports that he won’t sign a long-term contract with the Lakers until he’s explored the European market, that he’s become intrigued with the possibility of investigating an owner-player arrangement in the burgeoning Euroleague. Just a day earlier, Bryant had told Marc Spears of the Boston Globe that a $50 million-a-season contract could lure him to his boyhood home of Italy.

Ultimately, motives are never so simple with Bryant, agendas never so pure. All his life, he’s worked the angles. He’s manipulated the circumstance.

http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/beijin ... &type=lgns

Utah Jazz: Boozer not ruling out European offers

Boozer, who is eligible to opt out of the final season of his six-year, $68-million contract next offseason, said he would be open to all offers — including with a foreign team.

"As a business decision, we definitely would have to look at it," said Boozer, in Beijing as a second-time Olympian. "But it doesn't mean that you're on the next flight out."

http://deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,700249468,00.html

Wade ready to prove Redeem Team has substance

You hear Wade talk about visiting the athletes in the Olympic village, and his plans to go watch boxing, track, diving and swimming, and feel part of the Games. At the same time, the team is staying in a ritzy hotel off the grounds.

He says today’s players are not about the money. But later, someone asks him if he’d consider leaving the NBA for a European team if offered $50 million. There are rumors about that with LeBron James.

"Yeah, yeah," Wade said about 1/1000th of a second after the question was asked.

Is he a fake? Is Redeem Team a fake, too, setting us up?

http://www.suntimes.com/sports/couch/ol ... 08.article

Toronto Raptors centrepiece Chris Bosh, among others, agreed that so rich an offer would have to be weighed, regardless of the prestige of the world's greatest basketball league.

http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blog ... urope.aspx

NetsForce wrote:Going to Europe wouldn't make Lebron "the next Jodan" winning 6 championships will... Many people act like it's a foregone conclusion that Lebron will win multiple championships in his career and reach some sort of mythical legend status, but let's stay grounded people although Lebron has done some amazing things he's still ringless.

Hitman33 wrote:

LeBron is not looking to be the "Next Jordan."

He is looking to be the 1st LeBron, and that includes being a billionaire and a world icon. A 50 Million Dollar per year contract in Europe would aid in that goal.

Hitman33 wrote:

NetsForce wrote:Going to Europe wouldn't make Lebron "the next Jodan" winning 6 championships will... Many people act like it's a foregone conclusion that Lebron will win multiple championships in his career and reach some sort of mythical legend status, but let's stay grounded people although Lebron has done some amazing things he's still ringless.

LeBron is not looking to be the "Next Jordan."

He is looking to be the 1st LeBron, and that includes being a billionaire and a world icon. A 50 Million Dollar per year contract in Europe would aid in that goal.

Hitman33 wrote:

NetsForce wrote:Going to Europe wouldn't make Lebron "the next Jodan" winning 6 championships will... Many people act like it's a foregone conclusion that Lebron will win multiple championships in his career and reach some sort of mythical legend status, but let's stay grounded people although Lebron has done some amazing things he's still ringless.

LeBron is not looking to be the "Next Jordan."

He is looking to be the 1st LeBron, and that includes being a billionaire and a world icon. A 50 Million Dollar per year contract in Europe would aid in that goal.

Narcist wrote:2 years till hes a free agent. seriously i'm sick of this ****.

Inc wrote:Let's put it this way.
If you were working as a cashier at Walmart for $8 an hour, then you get offered to work at K-Mart for $40 an hour, would you want to stay and be the best cashier Walmart has ever seen and get the Employee of the Month, or take the money and go to K-Mart?

K-Mart FTW!

slamdunk wrote:If LeBron James plays in Europe, New Jersey Nets look stupid for trading Richard Jefferson for nothing.