Ric Bucher is on SportsCenter right now saying that LeBron James has told the teams vying for his services that he wants to have the process finished by Monday, July 5th.
Tag: Summer of 2010 (Page 32 of 63)
Gay and Lee will make visits this week to the Twin Cities to see what the Wolves have to offer, which includes about $20 million in salary cap space. Gay will arrive today and stay through the middle of Friday, followed by an all-day visit Saturday with Lee, according to Wolves president of basketball operations David Kahn.
“Those are the only two people I anticipated calling today,” Kahn said in a conference call late Wednesday after free agency began at 11:01 p.m. “That doesn’t mean that we may not ask others to come in, but they clearly were the two players I felt we wanted to meet and wanted to get to know better and have an opportunity to have a dialogue with.”
Kahn apparently thinks that Lee can play with Kevin Love, which is not unlike trying to play Ricky Rubio and Jonny Flynn together. Rudy Gay and Wes Johnson are also a curious fit. But Kahn has proven that he is a curious general manager.
One thing is for certain — the T-Wolves’ cap space (~$20 million) won’t be enough to sign both players, so they would have to work out a sign-and-trade with the Knicks or Grizzlies.
The Cavaliers and Scott are finishing the details of a contract that could make him LeBron James’ next coach.
Scott’s agent, Brian McInerney, said in an e-mail to The Associated Press that Scott has agreed to become Cleveland’s next coach.
Cleveland settled on Scott, 49, after strongly considering Los Angeles Lakers assistant coach Brian Shaw, who impressed the Cavaliers during interviews earlier this week.
The timing of this is a bit curious, but Scott’s desire for the job must not depend on whether or not LeBron returns to the Cavs. He did a nice job in New Orleans and was close with Chris Paul. This hire might fuel speculation that the Cavs are trying to land Paul via trade to entice LeBron to re-sign, though it would be tough for Cleveland to put together a deal enticing enough to get the Hornets to bite.
(Yes, that’s Jeremy Piven in the photo. Fotoglif’s selection of Byron Scott photos is limited.)
Bill Simmons, Tony Kornheiser, Michael Wilbon and Dan LeBatard discuss all the free agency news and rumors.
FOLLOW US!
CATEGORIES
© 2026 The Scores Report – The National Sports Blog
Theme by Anders Noren — Up ↑