Who needs New York?: LeBron highest paid NBA Player

[Farm Raid]

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you're joking? what are you 7 years old? an original nba team, 2 titles in the 70s in one of the most competitive eras in nba history.. do you even know who clyde frazier is? willis reed? red holzman? i guess they sucked in the 90s too? you know always competing with MJ's bulls? i guess cause the knicks suck now, they all the sudden are not a storied franchise?

So two titles, three HOFers, and competing with a dynasty makes a team storied? The Rockets are just as storied then? What about the Hawks? The Bucks? The point is the Knicks are a third tier team in the NBA, really.

Tier 1: Celtics and Lakers. End of story.

Tier 2: Bulls and maybe Spurs.

Tier 3: Spurs if they didn't make tier 2. Pistons. Sixers. Knicks, maybe Bucks.

Tier 4: Everyone else.

anyone who thinks lebron wouldnt make more playing in nyc in madison square garden is a complete fool.. cleveland? you gotta be kidding me 50% of their loser fanbase is made up of teenage bandwagoners who are on lebrons d*ck.. dude said it himself, he wants to be the richest man on the planet, playing for the knicks wont do it but he WILL make millions more as a knick than ANY other team, even if the nets move to brooklyn, it aint the same, they arent the knicks, they dont play in the worlds most famous arena, hate all you want but if he indeed does come to the knicks (and im not gonna get my hopes up), you will see the impact it makes.. new york is bigger and more important that alot of you think

As someone else said, that's why Ewing made more in endorsements than Shaq in Orlando, right?

at ppl underestimating new york

It's funny people overestimating it, too. You know LA has about as many people as NY when it comes to metro area, right? And Chicago has like 70% the population as well. And the Bay Area has almost as many as Chicago. New York's great and all, but it doesn't make or break people.

[Uncooked]

land to go to New York then he also risks 2 things....

1. His legacy. His time in Cleveland, for better or worse, will be remembered for not leading them to a title. He knows that. People close to LeBron have said time and time again that LeBron knows that he almost has to win a title in Cleveland, the city that drafted him, if he wants to be looked on the same way as people looked at MJ. His Cleveland years will be a "black mark" on his resume if he can't lead the Cavs to a title.

2. He risks being viewed as a sell-out who left to go to the Knicks and turned his back on his "home city and state". That could hurt his bottom line as much as anything.

Honestly, I think he will leave simply because our luck in Cleveland is just plain terrible, but if I were LeBron this would be the most important thing to me. He is going to be obscenely rich no matter what happens, I think if he could create his legacy based on creating a dominant franchise, based in an area that has been extremely unlucky when it comes to Sports the past 50 years, it would be for the better.

His good buddy Warren Buffett didn't need to leave Omaha to become the richest man in the world, maybe that can give us Cleveland fans some hope.

Also at KnicksMetsJetsNova for being a huge dork.

[Buckeye-NBAFan]

Actors normally dont get paid based on what the movie grossed. ( box office, rental...)

Shaq was most certainly put on a different entertainment light when he went to LA. Just because he sucked at it , doesnt mean the the potential is not there.

Actors get paid based on what their last movie did. Shaq's movie career ended with the only movie he made as an LA Laker.

[Buckeye-NBAFan]

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Magic Johnson came up in the 1980s and didn't have enormous endorsement deals, that today's players get but he's worth over $700 million dollars. Why? He established relationships with big businesses in L.A., big businesses on the West Coast, and expanded throughout the country. People keep looking at Jordan's commercials and thinking that's why he's so rich, but he didn't approach his relationships with Nike and Gatorade as if he was their spokesman. He approached his relationship with those corporations as if he was their partner, and by working and establishing himself in a big market like Chicago, he was able to leverage that relationship to the point where he effectively has his own company within Nike.

Magic made money putting movie theatures and fast food joints in the hood. You don't have to play for the Lakers to do that.

He owns Starbucks coffee shops. LA company? I think not. T.G.I. Friday's. LA company? Actually its based in NYC.

LeBron has deals with companies across the US. Atlanta has more fortune 500 companies than LA. You don't see corporate savvy athletes drooling at the chance to play for the Hawks.