As TJ Simers put it really well in his recent article, the Clippers are clearly the best team for LeBron to sign with this summer, with the best arena of LA and the Staples Center and the best talent in Baron, Kaman, Gordon, and Griffin.  If LeBron stays in Cleveland or goes anywhere else, he will be stuck with subpar players in a subpar town (yes I'm saying it, LA is superior to NYC!). 

And yet, no one thinks that there's any way LeBron signs with the Clippers.  I'm sure even Club Optimism would put it as a less than 10% chance.  LeBron will, of course, definitely have doubts about the Clippers organization, the owner, the coach, the team, and the fans.  None of us can really control any of the first three, but we as the most dedicated fans of the Clippers can launch a guerilla marketing campaign to put the team on his radar and show him how much love we will show him if he signs with the team!  If there's even a 1% chance that he'd sign with the Clippers, we should do whatever we can to make our case known - I mean, look at how blatantly the Knicks have been campaigning for LeBron, why shouldn't we do the same and be overly obvious and in his face about how much we would love for him to sign with the Clippers?

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