Sports Illustrated's Ian Thomsen asked the question we all should be asking today: why should we definitively believe what we're hearing about LeBron James heading to play in Miami?
I've been hearing all year long is that James alone will make this decision. He will listen to advice, he will take account of the different offers and opinions, and in the end he will make his own choice. This is what I've been told for a long time and it was spelled out most eloquently in a recent column by the Cleveland Plain Dealer's Brian Windhorst, who is plugged into James' camp.
So when I read of unnamed sources saying that James is going to Miami, I wonder: Do they absolutely 100 percent know what he is going to say Thursday night?
It's a really good point. Thomsen makes a second good point later in the article: why would LeBron's handlers put together this television event, then leak the outcome to a few select reporters? That doesn't make much sense, does it?
This isn't to say all the reports of LeBron going to Miami are definitively false (leaks happen, y'know?), but we should exhibit some caution before believing them to be absolutely true.
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He absolutely has to know where he is going to have made this whole TV thing happen. Which is why I think it’s so absurd that everyone thinks all these last minute maneuvers and statements from other players are having any impact on his decision. If he was unsure, there would be no TV announcement planned.
Keeping anything under wraps with this many people involved is really hard. Could the Miami thing be a smokescreen? Sure! But it’s not crazy to think the info was leaked.
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by Brent Brookhouse on Jul 8, 2010 4:35 PM EDT reply actions
James may or may not know his choice. Setting a deadline doesn’t mean he made a decision at that time. Maybe he did. But what is important, is whether he told anyone. If he did, be it teams or his hangers-on, it would leak. I have no doubt about that. But why tell anyone? Kinda ruins the whole “decision”.
by Jericho6 on Jul 8, 2010 6:53 PM EDT reply actions
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