****The Official 2013-14 NBA Thread****

Because it's the Knicks, and your franchise is a train wreck.

BTW, you are too smart to continue this "Bosh is a wimp" BS.

 

System. Heat defensive system is intelligence based. Beasley..well..is an "instinctual player"

 

Pat Riley. Micky Arison. Erik Spoelstra vs. A Dumpster Fire.

Sure..choose the dumpster fire.

 

I can't see another team that he would go to.

 

I feel like the term dumpster fire no longer applies to the Knicks. Dumpster fires burn out fairly quickly...Waste Yard Fire?

 

Lebron is the only one who needs to go there, and thats 15 min from his hometown. Kyrie wouldn't leave if Lebron signs.

My confidence in this happening is alot lower before Callipari turned them down. Im sure if he was considering it and Bron hinted to him he would return, 80M and the chance to coach LBJ would be very hard to turn down.

I would LOVE to believe he may come to NY, but again....Cleveland or he stays.

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Cavs have enough assets to get Love and other pieces that would be attractive to LeBron. Could trot out a Kyrie-Afflalo-LBJ-Love-Asik type roster which would be awesome...

...but they are a complete mess with no head coach and no structure and there's no way LeBron is hitching his wagon to that type of situation.

 

The thing is even if the unspeakable happened, James leaving would open intense cap room we could improve our roster and have a TEAM still capable of beating the Knicks. Sooo.

 

Tire fire?

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Just bring in Tannehill, Grimes, Wake, Pouncey, and Wallace and you can beat the Knicks...

 

In other news...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_0wjFP3YsQ

 

Mitch Lawrence of the NYDN is reporting that LeBron is willing to take a paycut if the savings are used for players, rather than for Arison's tax relief.

This seems to be an obvious bit of reporting, but if true, it is certainly an indication that LBJ is not looking elsewhere and simply wants to insure that we will continue to spend to win. Micky needs to step up a bit here. Not saying he has to go Prokhorov but no pinching pennies either.

 

In all fairness Micky has been stepping up for several years in a row.

 

True, but they weakened this year's team for tax purposes.

 

Biggest move this offseason could be the Heat re-negotiating their TV deal with Sun. IIRC, they're getting around ~$100MM/yr. now. If Arison can deliver them a Big 4, we could very well see the new contract come in closer to $200MM/yr.

Arison's tax issue could solve itself.

 

When is the contract up? I've read conflicting reports.

 

LeBron PC:

Hasn't thought about free agency but his family's happiness and opportunity to win are the most important factors.

Will take a family vacation shortly and won't start thinking about contract until he returns (sure, LBJ, sure)

Doesn't need a Heat sales pitch. He knows what the organization brings to the table. No need for them to sell it

 

Extremely obvious piece of "reporting". In fact, I would go on a limb and just say he stole it from LeBatard who said the same exact thing on Monday.

 

More LeBron:

Hasn't talked to Wade/Bosh about their thoughts but that they will have a conversation at some point. They've "earned" the right to do this together.

More at ease than in 2010 when he let FA frenzy get a hold of him. May opt in but hasn't decided, likes having "professional flexibility"

 

More LBJ:

Doesn't even know who the free agents are and has no plans at this point to speak with any of them before he makes his own decision. Says that's what Riley is good at.

Psychoanalyzing beat writers pointing out that LBJ continually used "we" and "us" referring to the Heat. So there's that

 

Now Bosh:

Big 3 will talk to Riley, hear his plan and then meet at some point. Says he is patient and needs some time to decompress from season.

Wouldn't commit to taking pay cut but said he will listen to Riley, talk to LBJ/Wade and his family and then make a decision.

Bosh "loves working here"

 

So you're saying there's only a 50% chance he goes to NY.

They're all coming back; discounted.

 

The Bill Simmons in me is telling me he meant "we" and "us" to mean he and Dan Gilbert.

 

Most beat writers opining that Bosh seems like a "yes" vote as to staying together.

No Wade today. He declined to speak to media. Hmmm........

 

LOL I like how Lebron doing nothing but telling straight up lies to the media is newsworthy. Who could possibly believe his statements in that PC?


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He may not know what he is going to do definitively.

I don't believe that he has no idea, or that he hasn't thought about it though.

 

You know damn well he knows the free agent class. Bron is so self aware. He knows everybody's stats and he reads up on his opponents outside of just the basic scouting report, you know he knows who the free agents are.

 

Well I do think Phil was a great move but its still a new position for him and he needs to prove himself as a team builder. He will attract names but I'm more interested in what he builds around those names. That is rhe tough part.

 

It's a little tough to say this without seeing any actual results so far.

 

I'm pretty sure he knows the big ones but I'd actually doubt he knows every possible role player.

 

Ill take Chandler in Miami for rim protection and rebounding. You can keep Felton.

 

We got Riley the coach. We knew he was great in that role.

And he was a great executive from Day 1. He traded for Zo and Timmy within the first year and we were in the East Finals 2 years later.

 

I don't think this is like that at all, for a variety of reasons.

 

Of course we did. He had been doing both jobs, well, for nearly a decade.

You are not getting the best Phil Jackson has to offer. That's just a fact.