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      Wait, Chris Bosh is waiting on LeBron?

      June 24, 2010 /

      Just a few days after saying that he can’t wait for LeBron to make a decision, Chris Bosh has seemingly changed his tune.

      “Am I waiting on LeBron? Pretty much,” Bosh said. “I think everyone has to. I have to as well.”

      He went on to say this:

      “He’s a great player and I would be crazy to think that all the teams that are considering him, they would talk to somebody else first,” Bosh said. “I think everybody is going to be going at him first.

      “They’ll probably call him at 12:01,” Bosh added. “Hopefully they’ll call me at 12:02.”

      All indications are that LeBron’s camp plans to take its time with the decision and may even make a few visits to listen to pitches from front office management. But make no mistake, there will be teams that know that they are out of the running for LeBron’s services that will call Bosh at 12:01 AM.

      It’s strange — there is a persistent rumor that Bosh will follow LeBron wherever he goes, yet Bosh is on the record as saying that he wants to be ‘the man’ and not a sidekick. If he’s true to his word, then he’ll have an opportunity to come to terms with a team before LeBron does, though if winning is really the most important thing (also Bosh’s own words), then it would behoove him to join forces with the self-proclaimed King (and Dwyane Wade too).


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      Rose: LeBron is not re-signing with the Cavs

      June 24, 2010 /

      We should take anything Jalen Rose says with a spoonful of salt, but here’s what he had to tweet about the LeBron situation:

      #NBA my sources say that it is almost CERTAIN that LEBRON JAMES WILL NOT be returning to the CAVS! (Bulls/Heat/Clips)

      The Cavs “news” is big enough, but notice the absence of the Knicks and Nets and the presence of the Clips.

      My gut says that LeBron will stick in Cleveland, but depending on how wired in Rose’s “sources” are, that may not be the case. There are pros and cons to each of his options, so there’s no clear choice for LeBron come July 1.

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      The Heat clear cap space, trade Cook

      June 23, 2010 /

      Take our picks, please!

      The Miami Heat have traded their way out of the first round of Thursday’s NBA draft but, in doing so, cleared more cap space by sending the 18th pick and guard Daequan Cook to Oklahoma City for the No. 32 pick in the second round.

      The Heat were not enamored with the quality of players in the draft and wanted to clear cap room, a source told ESPN.com. The net result of losing Cook’s $1.36 million salary and the value of the 18th pick is $3 million.

      Actually Cook’s salary for next season ($2.2 million) is what Miami is saving with this deal. But that’s not all. The #18 pick would make around $1.4 million — that’s what last year’s #18 pick, Ty Lawson, made this season — so the Heat will save a total of $3.6 million off of this year’s payroll by essentially giving Cook and the pick away.

      I believe this leaves Miami with three players (Michael Beasley, James Jones and Mario Chalmers) under contract and $48 million in cap space, assuming the team waives or trades Jones away by the end of June. Miami’s goal is to sign three big-name free agents and with $48 million in cap space, they can afford to start three players at $16 million per season. They’d have to fill out the roster with a mid-level player and veteran minimum guys, but if they were re-sign Dwyane Wade and add two big-name free agents, the vets would come calling.

      My gut tells me that LeBron, Wade and Chris Bosh will all sign with different teams, but that doesn’t mean that Miami won’t be able to sign a combination of Joe Johnson/Rudy Gay and Amare Stoudemire/Carlos Boozer/David Lee. And they may not even have to burn the full $48 million to do so.

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      The Heat’s pitch to LeBron

      June 22, 2010 /

      Chad Ford has been outlining the ways that the different teams around the league can make their pitch to LeBron. As he tackles the Heat, he outlines Miami’s dream scenario:

      The Heat could engage in a sign-and-trade for LeBron or Bosh, most likely Bosh. Sign-and-trades are notoriously difficult to pull off. But they aren’t impossible.

      If Bosh and the Raptors would cooperate, for instance, the Heat could send Michael Beasley and Daequan Cook and return Toronto’s No. 1 pick (owned by Miami) to the Raptors and slide Bosh in under the cap at a starting salary of around $13.5 million.

      Of course, we know Bosh is unlikely to agree to a deal that starts at $13.5 million, especially if Wade and James are getting $16.5 million. But what if all three players — close friends from Team USA — decide to take a small pay cut to play together? If James and Wade both were to agree to a starting salary of $15.5 million, the Heat could offer Bosh $15.5 million as well.

      It’s a nice thought, and if winning was really the most important thing to these players then this is the type of situation they should look for.

      But as much as they like to say that winning is the most important thing — it’s not. While Wade is pragmatic enough to welcome LeBron and Bosh to Miami with open arms, I don’t think either free agent would want to join Wade’s team. Don’t get me wrong — they’d gladly play with Wade in New York or New Jersey or Chicago, but actually joining the franchise that already has a recent championship because of Wade? That is a tough pill to swallow, legacy-wise.

      Chris Bosh has said that he doesn’t want to be seen as an addition to a team and that he wants to be ‘the man.’ That doesn’t jibe with a Wade-LeBron-Bosh trio in Miami. For his part, LeBron is keeping his options open, but would he really want people thinking that he joined forces with Wade in Miami because he couldn’t win a ring on his own?

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      Chris Bosh wants to be ‘the man’

      June 21, 2010 /

      Last week, Bosh informed us that he wasn’t about to wait for LeBron James to make up his mind, and now he’s reiterating his wish to be ‘the man’ for whatever team he plays for next season.

      Chris Bosh isn’t waiting for some summit to determine his landing spot next season. The soon-to-be Toronto Raptors free agent is determined to chart his own course and forge his own identity apart from the star-studded field of peers also entering the open market.

      “I don’t want to be mentioned as an addition to a team,” Bosh said prior to the season . “I want to be mentioned as the guy that people want to center their team around.”

      “I’m not an addition. I’m a centerpiece,” he said. “I have to have that confidence in myself, and I want people to know that, because I’m not somebody that helps out. I’m the guy you get like, ‘Yo, we’re going to win a championship, you’re gonna take us there.’

      “I want to hold onto that because I think every kid when they dream about playing basketball, they don’t dream about being a role player. They dream about being the man. I have that position in Toronto and to give that up and go somewhere else to be an addition would kinda defeat the purpose of my dreams.”

      That’s still pretty nebulous, but we can read the tea leaves a little bit.

      The fact that he doesn’t want to be mentioned as an addition to a team leads me to believe that he won’t join Dwyane Wade in Miami or LeBron in Cleveland. If he does end up playing with one of those two, it would probably be in New York or New Jersey, where the franchises are basically starting over and can build around him (and LeBron/Wade).

      It would also seem to eliminate the Thunder and Lakers from contention, since he’d be seen as an “addition” to teams that already had established stars (Kevin Durant, Kobe). We could also potentially cross off the Bulls, since they already have a budding star in Derrick Rose (though Bosh would be an ideal fit there).

      Perhaps the Knicks or Nets could persuade both Joe Johnson and Bosh to sign, since Bosh wants to be ‘the man,’ while Johnson doesn’t seem to crave that title.

      Is it July 1 yet?


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