Do Players Stay Away from the East to Avoid Lebron?

1. The West might just have better GMs and Organizations.
2. Those GMs draft better and the money stays with who drafted you
3. Those GMs pay

Rocket River

 

No, LeBron stays in the East to avoid Players in the West.

 

Maybe these players look at the West and think there are enough good teams to where their presence on any of those teams would be enough? In the East, unless you're putting together a super squad, it's still not enough to beat LeBron.

I don't know, I'm just playing Devil's Advocate. Nick Wright is most likely just full of ****.

 

Durant for sure stated away from dueling Lebron every post season and losing

 

Players go where they want to live and get paid. LeBron goes wherever he gets to have 2 all stars next to him. Nobody in the NBA or NBA history is so scared of anybody that they let if affect where they live and play. NEXT.

 

Except durant

 

The East is full of incompetent GMs who have wrecked their teams. Also, it doesn't help that every superstar lottery pick somehow lands in the West. For every Anthony Davis or KAT the West has, the East gets Anthony Bennett or Andrea Bargnani.

Therefore, nobody is running from LeBron and whenever LeBron's had competition in the East, he opted to join them and form a super team. LeBron would be a perennial second round exit in the West instead of the cakewalk to the Finals he gets in the East every year. Lower seed Memphis would wreck LeBron's brand and career before he ever got to play with the big boys.

 

No.

I have no doubt that players consider playoff difficulty / strength of schedule in their free agency decisions, but they're not dumb. Lebron isn't some mythical figure that's singlehandedly harder than a brutal Western conference trip like "get beat up by Grit-and-Grind to start with, then James Harden and Mike D'Antoni will be waiting to run you off the court, then have fun with this team that won 73 games then traded Harrison Barnes for Kevin Durant." (the route faced by the Spurs at the moment).

If there had been more teams one step away from beating Lebron in the same way that the Warriors/Spurs/Thunder/Suns/Mavs were always one step away from the current top dog, then we'd see those teams getting the same ring-chasers and big names (like the KG Celtics did to beat Lebron). But since the Heatles created a unique singularity by destroying three playoff teams* and it somehow ended up creating a title-ready squad for him to step back into in Cleveland, and then the prime candidate for that rival (Indiana) self-destructed quite quickly, there weren't any real prime candidates for ring-chasers to run to.

*artistic license taken in calling Bosh Raptors a "playoff team"

 

If LeBron loses to the Warriors this year....

Do you think he opts out and joins them for the league minimum?

He's 32 years old with 3 rings. He needs 4 more to beat Jordan.

If he does this will he be the greatest of all time ?

 

Come on, it literally just happened. That's why this thread was created. Kyle Lowry is tired of losing to Lebron, and has given up, considering beating him futile in his current situation.

The only way to know if this is right or not will be to see if the balance of power evens out when Lebron retires.

 

He didn't pick GSW to avoid LeBron, he's on a collision course to play against LeBron again and he knew it'd be that way when he signed.

Players have been trying to get the hell out of Toronto BEFORE LeBron, and they'll be trying to leave Toronto AFTER LeBron, NEXT.

 

Prob not but I do strongly believe that the any of the top 6 in the West could handle any East playoff team besides Cleveland. The Clippers for ex. would have their way against the likes of Boston, Toronto, Washington etc. Russ and his boys could take out the Raptors honestly.

 

Yep, so much that Lowry signed an extension there, Derozan signed an extension there, Demarre Carroll signed to play there. And Jonas signed an extension. Patterson signed an extension there. NEXT.

But Bosh left to play with Lebron... so all is invalid I guess?

 

They go where the money is. They go where they want to live. They go to teams with players they want to play with. They don't check an ENTIRE conference off the list because of 1 player. Y'all are ridiculous. PROVE IT, then get back to me. Until you can PROVE it....

NEXT.

 

Lol going through rockets, spurs, warriors os harder then only going thru lebron

 

LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL!!!!!

Lebron is an all time great, one of the best ever, but give me an effin break. If anything, Lebron is avoiding the West. This year's Cavs would have struggled to get a top 4 seed if they were in the West.

 

The East has been "The Leastern Conference" for longer than Lebron has been a dominant force.

What stars are he talking about? Trying to remember stars that ran from the East.

 

It hasn't happened yet. As far as I know, Lowry hasn't signed a deal to leave the East. He MIGHT, and if he does, he'll be the first one that I know that signs a max deal to get out of the East specifically because he feels trapped.

Al Horford signed in the East
Melo got himself traded to the East
Dragic got himself traded to the East
Dwight went to the East (lol if he had a choice) and was trying to go to Brooklyn before the Lakers trade

I just don't see who we are even talking about unless Lowry does it.

The East ravaged itself with stupid cap management and then honestly just terrible luck with who "worked out" at the top of the draft every year and injuries. They just keep compounding on top of each other and those teams keep trying desperate fixes to get out of it that just make it worse. That's why the league is so top heavy on the East with most of the teams absolutely sucking and then the Lebrons.

 

Yes everyone wants to come to the West and play the 68 and 73 win Warriors instead of the 53 win Cavs.

 

Get rid of conferences.