A Scenario That Could Keep LeBron in Ohio

Uhhh….fantasy to uphold? No we don’t.

Of course, I am a Wizards fan….so there….I got a big ol’ bucket of haterade for the Mistake by the Lake.

Its would be awesome to get another Superstar BB player to team with LeBron & maybe add a couple of roll player pieces to put it all together !

GO Cav’s

Hmmm…Sign a superstar or two and a couple quality roll players and you keep the "King".  What a formula.  Let’s hope Danny Ferry is listening.

I’m confident Danny Ferry will bring in another superstar to team with LeBron, and bring Cleveland a championship.

That Akron reporter, Patrick McManamon, is on the ball.

MJ had Scottie…LeBron needs someone in order to get a ring or two. I love the possibility of Wade…and he’s already got a ring. Might be a little tough sharing the ball. Bosh almost seems a better fit, and maybe even cheaper than the others listed, allowing for money to sign role players. As long as James is happy until then, the possibilites are endless it seems.

SpursFanatic85 is on the right track, and to piggyback on that a bit LeBron has not had a solid #2 since he arrived in Cleveland. This has all the makings of really breaking him down and wearing him out physically before the age of 30.

I would like to see a LeBron-Amare combo just for the sheer excitement and entertainment value of seeing LeBron bringing the ball up court and feeding Amare an alley-oop for a thunderous and monsterous dunk about 10 to 12 times a game. Right now it just ain’t working with LeBron feeding alley-oops to the Big Z.

this article as wrong in so many levels
first of all there are more teams then just the cavs to sign 2 big time players (or resign their own and sign another) from the 010 free agent class
i’m not going to bother listing all the teams
i’ll just point out that toronto alone has well over 40 million in cap space to spend currently in 2010

if cleveland is so desperate for james to stay with the cavs, their owner is better off giving james an ownership stake rather then cling to somewhat outlandish hypothesis and ‘perfect scenarios’.

Why wait until 2010? After Mo Williams officially became a Cav i posted a comment asking whats next for the Cavs? Surely no one believes Mo is the final peice to a Cavs team that has only one consistent scoring option come playoff time, Lebron James.

I came up with this apparently "lame brain" idea of involving Denver and New York in a mega deal that would send Allen Iverson and Zach Randolph to the Cavs. Ben Wallace and Kenyon Martin to the Knicks and Eddy Curry, Nate Robinson, Wally Sczcerbiak and Eric Snow to Denver.

Needless to say fellow members thought I must of been on some type of high because everyone thought I was hallucinating.

Everyone has their right to their own opinion but does anyone truly believe that Lebron James will stay in Cleavland if they decide to wait until 2010 to get him legitimate help? That man is ready for a title now.

So what if the whole Iverson/Anthony duo didn’t work out in Denver, both guys are shoot first players who played on a team that lacks a legit assist man. Lebron is that pass first type of player that both Iverson and Zach Randolph have gone their whole careers without. Plus, I haven’t heard anything about any off court issues involving these guys since they both relocated. So I don’t want to hear about the possibility of Lebron playing with "thugs".

With Starbury inching his way over to Milan and the Randolph/Curry tandem failing miserably last year wouldn’t New York welcome the defensive presence of Ben Wallace and Kenyon Martin. With the uptempo game that New York will display this season wouldn’t it help if their rebounders could play a little D on the opposite end of the court. Both are quality players when healthy and I believe Wallace’s contract is up in 2010. So if Wallace doesn’t fit a run and gun type of style that New York will offer he won’t be a long time commitment and his contract will expire just in time for the Knicks to find a guy who is.

Denver is rebuilding. Nate Robinson is going to be a very good point guard in this league. Eddy Curry might of taken a step back but last season but he still has plenty of good years ahead of him. Wally Szczerbiak has the type of outside shooting that Denver sorely needs with or without Iverson and could be resigned for much less after his contract expires. And Eric Snow is still a quality back up and a pretty good defender.

Where’s the problem?

I’m not saying someone should run up to Lebron and smack him in the face with this trade idea. I’m not saying someone should hang a banner down in Times Square or outside the Pepsi Center either. 

Ask Lebron what he’d rather have, Iverson and Randolph for at least 1 season or "maybe" a younger star in 2010. Ask The Knicks who would be better for the Knicks Curry and Randolph or Wallace and Martin. And in Denver, ask Carmelo what seems more promising teamwise, Iverson and Martin or Robinson, Curry, Szczerbiak and Snow.

He doesn’t need a second fiddle or number 2 option, he needs a damn legitimate big man, and not soft players like Z.  The Cavs roster is being overhauled slowly, with overpaid guys like Marshall and Hughes being shipped off in the past few years.  Now they have to get rid of Z and Varejao, who don’t hustle at all when it really matters and cost LeBron his chance at going to the Finals again, despite how hard he played in that Game 7, just like they cost him the Championship the year before that.  He needs Mike Brown to get fired, and he needs Cleveland to start drafting smarter, and start getting role players who are actually SMART basketball players, and not the jokes he’s had recently.  That is seriously an insult to somebody who will be the greatest player in the league very soon.

hey wizards fan "mistake by the lake"? lets see who knocks the wizards out of the playoffs every year? oh ya the cavs. Whose the better baseball team : nationals or Indians? i think that one answers itself. Lets see the redskins who r a joke or the browns who have turned into one of the best teams in football… ya thatz what i thought washington sucks shut ur mouth

To keep LeBron, the Cavs will have to show that they are willing to do whatever it takes to get him a title.  If that means a big name free agent then so be it.  If it means plenty of trades, then so be it.  If he is not convinced that he can get a title in Cleveland, then he is off to greener pastures, maybe even for less money, If and only if he thinks he can legitimatly get a title.

how can you over look the fact that lebron just might not want to be in Cleveland? how would want to be a superstar in the middle of ohio. Two new york teams are gonna be drooling all over him. All the guy cares about is lebron, i think adding a second star would just irk him. He likes to talk, he likes to shoot, he likes being the star and what better place to be THE KING than in new york. Which big star will play scottie pippen to lbj? and why when you were the franchise piece.

Its not a personnel, its personal. Imagine A Rod X 1,000 in nyc in a couple seasons…ugggghhhh.

damiraclekid, you should just write that in a blog that is a retardedly long comment. comment board, not write an article board. plus your trade fantasy nonsense probably fits a blog atmosphere better, join the other thousands who dream up trades all day

1. "and this is a far cry from the doom-and-gloom that’s slowly descending over Cleveland." Actually, no one in Cleveland thinks he’s leaving. Typical condescending-media-get-him-out-of-Cleveland statement. And I like Shoals, a lot, which is why I was so shocked by this statement.  Most rational Cavs fans have long thought that LeBron ain’t going to leave that much money on the table to go to the Nets, who won’t be any better than the Cavs will be in 2010.2. "first of all there are more teams then just the cavs to sign 2 big time players (or resign their own and sign another) from the 010 free agent class. i’m not going to bother listing all the teams. i’ll just point out that toronto alone has well over 40 million in cap space to spend currently in 2010" Yeah, but no one else can offer LeBron as much as the Cavs can, and if you think he’s going to take less money somewhere else, you’re crazy. I don’t think it’s as simple as the reporter makes it out to be, as every team can offer their guy the most, so getting one of the stars mentioned to take less to come to Cleveland is just as unlikely.What it’s going to take is for someone like Bosh to never advance in the playoffs in Toronto to be willing to take less to come play with LeBron.  That all sounds well and good, but when the contract figures come at the players, they generally go where the money is.

Sloppy grammar on my part. I think I meant that it seems inevitable to a lot of us on the outside; I know no one in Cleveland feels he’s leaving.

And yeah, it all hinges on the assumption that someone would want to come play with LeBron, and that LeBron, the big fish of all big fish, would follow the loyalty (and money) and stay put if that were the case.