Who wants LeBron?
March 4, 2009 by James Edwards
Filed under Detroit Pistons, NBA Basketball
NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
LeBron James thinks about all the money coming his way
Just learned some stuff from ESPN the Mag. It is all about the NBA free agent market. No longer are GM’s just looking for talent to seal the deal and pave the way for the NBA title.
Guess what? Money is important. Yeah, even in the uber-rich NBA money counts, but evidently it counts for more and adds up to less. You see, the NBA salary cap is set to go down. This is unheard of, it never goes down, but sure enough, right before the trade deadline the commissioner, his emissary David Stern sent a mass e-mail out to all GM’s that the cap would go from 71 mill plus change down to 69 mill.
Suddenly GM’s are not making deals for talent, but deals to save money so they don’t get the luxury tax. None of the top teams pulled off any blockbuster deals like usual. It was just plain unusual and it is going to stay that way.
My own beloved Pistons stood pat before the trade deadline after listening to many possible deals. Get this; most teams were willing to give up more talent to the Pistons to get salary relief in return.
Next summer the Pistons will have more money under the cap than anyone other than Oklahoma.
Joe D is licking his chops at the deals that may present themselves. Now most likely that won’t be LeBron, but it could be a couple of other 1st class free agents or trade deals.
It should be an interesting summer.
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LeBron should not be thinking about the money and should be thinking about playing the game. He belongs on the cavaliers in my opinion because thats who he is. You should stay to where you came from and play the game for what it is. When you start playing for money then the game is killed.