THE OFFICIAL MIAMI HEAT SUMMER of 2010 Thread.

Ugh. Just thinking of LBJ in a Nets uniform makes my lunch jump up.

 

Chea!

I don't think I'm leaving my computer today.

 

My guess is that SAS probably did have good reason but that Lebron has been kind of waffling. I would bet that at times Lebron was all gung ho about forming the super friends and was indeed leading the recruiting bandwagon and an hour later he's all wracked with guilt about leaving Cleveland and saying he would stay. That's why you have so many definitive, conflicting reports. If I had to guess right now Lebron is between Miami and Cleveland. He'll take the visits and may even be enthused about Chicago, NY, Dallas and NJ for an hour or even a day, but in the end it will be Miami or Cleveland. I would handicap it at 70% Cleveland and 25% Miami (the other 5% can be split among the other four teams). The reason I say Cleveland is b/c I don't think Lebron will have the stones to leave and be the bad guy in his hometown even if it may mean he never gets a championship.

 

why are the words all crazy looking ?

 

I'd agree with this, but that's not really what lmeister was getting at. He's saying that SAS is flat-out making things up, not that LeBron is going back and forth.

My guess is that if LeBron is conflicted, it's because he's trying to justify to himself leaving Cleveland, which means he's already decided to do it.

 

your breaking news post looked like hebrew and crazy letters to me....until i quoted your post i could read it. also chad fords link from king was the same....weird

 

Might want to check the text encoding settings in your browser.

 

Bosh on Twitter:

 

Honestly it wouldn't break my heart if LeBron ultimately didn't come here. I was never expecting us to be a serious contender for him in the first place. Would it be wonderful if he did? Of course. But it wont make or break what we're trying to do which is upgrade the roster. We dont need to go for broke like the Knicks, Bulls and Nets are doing, but of course if we can get all three top FAs then Riley will find a way to do it. But realistically speaking we're lucky if we even land just one of the top FAs. At the end of the day though, Lebron is going to either resign with Cleveland(which is what I've always thought he was going to do) or come here, which is still pie in the sky thinking even at this point.

 

I would be shocked if LeBron went to Miami. Wouldn't be good for the NBA. The NBA needs someone in NYC, whether that be LeBron, Joe Johnson, Amare, I'm not sure.

 

I don't think LeBron knows where hes going. He's a business man. He wants to see what these teams will pitch to him. He's not going to stay in Cleveland because he feels guilty. He's going to go to the team which can best help him achieve his goals.

 

Wrong. The NBA has survived just fine with the Knicks sucking for the past decade or so.

 

ftfy

 

Well if winning is a goal, and playing on the best team in NBA history is a goal, he should come here.

 

sedano says lebron recruiting ray allen to join big three in miami:

http://network.yardbarker.com/NBA/a...llen_May_Take_Less_To_Join_Heat_Big_3/2822049

 

For the veteran's minimum right?

 

I'm really tired of the assumption that a sports league needs its New York-based teams to play well in order to succeed. It's regional arrogance.

What the NBA needs is a clash of the titans, '90s style. Michael Jordan won six rings but he did it against strong competition, and a lot of people still think the talent the NBA had in the early to mid 90s was the league's golden era. A clash of the titans--the big three in Miami, a strong Orlando, a resurgent Chicago all fighting it out for the right to take the trophy from Kobe Bryant--is the sort of thing that help put basketball back in the headlines.

Which headline would be more interesting to the casual sports fan? "Knicks lose six-game series, take second round playoff exit" or "Miami steamrolls Chicago in ECF sweep, ready to fend off Lakers threepeat"? The answer is pretty obvious to me.

 

if lebatard's tweeted trade of bosh for beasley, chalmers and anthony goes through, then i'm guessing there's around $4 million left to give to somebody else.

the heat needs around 1.7 million more to sign the three maxes. the contracts that would be off the books are:

beasley for around 4.9 million
chalmers for around .9 million

5.8 - 1.7 to give for third max = roughly 4.1 million left

 

I don't think SAS was making things up (this time anyways). Too many others reported the same thing (not just repeated it) so IMO it's much more likely that it was Lebron who was waffling.

I hope you're right about the conflicted thing. IMO he wants to stay in Cleveland for all the reasons except winning. I think winning, more than anything, is the best thing for Lebron Inc. And creating a super friends team with Wade and Bosh provides the best chance of that. I think his decision will show whether he really is 'all about winning'.

 

With LeBron... roughly $6-7 million.

Without LeBron... a ton.

 

I completely agree. A dynasty is more compelling than anything except two dynasties. The best thing for the NBA would be if Miami created a super team that claimed a few titles and then another team followed suit. Then these two dynasties stayed viable for a decade or so and battled it out in historic fashion.

 

I think the team count is fine. The problem is that a lot of teams are poorly run or find themselves in bad markets, like the Clippers. But the NBA has done a good job of capitalizing on markets that MLB and NFL haven't, like Portland and San Antonio.

Though I do think the Clippers should just pack up and move to Seattle.

 

sigh.....its starting to hit me. bosh is a fantastic player.

bron and wade are imo the 2 best players in the world. if they were both dawning heat jerseys id go ****ing insane!

 

RUMOR (RealGM T'Wolves moderator):

Miami = Chris Bosh
Minnesota = Michael Beasley, TPE
Toronto = Al Jefferson

 

This one I can actually see happening even though it does go against the opinion of Sec's source.

 

Well I trust the validity of your source, but he seems to think that Beasley being traded is unlikely b/c Riley likes Beasley. He does say that Beasley will be included if it's absolutely necessary, but seems to imply that it's unlikely. My guess (and it's nothing more than that) is that it will be necessary and therefore it's not unlikely. Does that make sense?

 

I'd rather just get Lebron and not worry about other scenarios lol

We could play 5 against 3 and win 60 games with that trio.

 

Appreciate all the info Sec!! Just wanted to say thanks!