Do Players Stay Away from the East to Avoid Lebron?

if you can't see Durant not picking Celtics over Dubs because Lebron was one of the reasons, sure GSW's roster is 10000x better and sure he could care less, but i'm sure Lebron was at least one of reasons why. i don't buy this Lebron stuff, but honestly, it might hold some value.

 

Exactly. The only franchise that is consistently well-run in the East is Miami. In the West you have SA, GS, Houston, Memphis, Dallas, and Utah.

 

Also let's just be clear that it took a total Warriors meltdown and a Kawhi Leonard free throw miss for Lebron to have two more rings.

 

And Tim Duncan missing a point-blank layup. And Chris Bosh grabbing an offensive rebound bc Pop took Duncan out. And Ray Allen hitting maybe the biggest shot in NBA history.

 

Look at NY for instance . . . If Prozingas leaves. . . will it be to avoid LeBron or to Avoid Carmelo and Phil Jackson

everyone know Every team in the west not named Golden State will promise him the world

Once you know . .. YOU GETTING THE MAX . . . then you can pick and choose
The Sun of Pheonix or Miami
The slow life of Utah
The Glitz of LA
The . . i dunno . .what ever Portland and okc have

You have to know the player and is preferences and that kind of stuff

For mid level players they go mainly where the money is
Many will goto LA because they can get outside the court money
Endorsements etc are higher in some cities
DaShawn Watson probably filming a HEB commercial as we speak

Rocket River

 

Since Jordan's retirement from the Bulls in 1998, there have been 8 different NBA championship teams. 4 are from the West and 4 are from the East. The West has certainly won more rings in total, but it's not like the East has been nothing but LeBron dominated since 1999. The West is just really fortunate the two of the most dominant franchises in the history of the league were around post-Jordan were both from the West (Lakers and San Antonio).

Golden State won't last much longer than Curry's next extension and Pop will eventually retire somewhere in his 70s I'd imagine. No reason why the Raptors or Boston can't step up to the plate, especially since Boston has a top 3 pick this year and most likely next year as well.

 

Moving goal posts here; since when has *anyone* said it has been Lebron, and only Lebron, as to why people switch teams and eliminate an entire conference? This thread was only created as a reaction to the Lowry situation.

In addition, first you are saying nobody wants to play in Toronto, now you say people go where they want to live/where the money is, conceding that in fact, some *do* want to play in Toronto?? Which one is it?

And seriously, what's with the attitude? Cut it bro, I've never done anything to you both on the BBS and out of it as well.

I agree with most of what you are saying. I will also say that players probably want to save face and wouldn't admit that they switched conferences, in part (no matter how minor or major it was) because of a singular player. That's why nobody else immediately comes to mind. In addition, obviously not every player is going to think alike with their free agency moves. Bogut thought Dallas would win more than the Rockets

We will see what Lowry does of course, and we will also see the balance of power between the East and West as Lebron's career diminishes.

 

Lebron has a lots of miles on him, good time to be the Bucks and possibly the Sixers. Miami is always a darkhorse for getting good talent and always having good coaching.

 

To put mythical LeBron in perspective; he had Wade and Bosh in Miami, but then also 3 first overall picks upon his return to Cleveland: Kyrie, Bennett, Wiggins, of which the net was Kyrie and Love.

I'm sure if you surround Harden with that much talent, he would win 3 championships as well.

The league has bent over backwards to protect its chosen one. Decades from now when the dust is settled, historians will acknowledge LeBron was no special snowflake, just a manufactured superstar in a league starving for a global icon.

 

Players leave the east to protest laws that target transgender Americans

 

James Harden would wreck Lebron in a series

 

You mean if he had KD and Russ ?

 

Lebron teams are tough to beat, I'll give them that.

But no one is running from the East because they're THAT good, they're running to the West because the teams are THAT good. Well coached, well balanced teams that win consistently over the Bucks, Bulls, Magic, Knicks, Hawks, Wiz, etc. etc.

Man this tweet is really idiotic. Who tf is Nick Wright?

 

I don't buy it. Maybe over the last couple years there could be some validity to that. But the East has been a joke for a very long time. The most embarrassing stretch may have been a decade and a half ago. You had the New Jersey Nets make 2 straight Finals. The Pistons made it to a bunch of consecutive Eastern Conference Finals despite having no superstar on their roster. A 22 year old LeBron and a bunch of scrubs reached the Finals in 2007. That conference was so pathetic that the Celtics were able to go from a terrible 24 win lottery team to a 66 win NBA champion literally overnight simply by trading for an aging Garnett and Allen.

Look at how many poorly run organizations there are in the East. The Knicks have been a disaster for 15 years. The Nets are a laughingstock. The Heat and Cavs' fortunes have been entirely dependent on LeBron. The Bulls took an Eastern Conference Finals team and dismantled it(granted, injuries did play a role). The Magic have no idea what they're doing. The Sixers have been rebuilding forever. The Pacers are about to be rebuilding thanks to a series of poor personnel moves. And the Raptors and Wizards are respectable teams but have no shot at contending for an NBA title.

Basically that conference is reduced to the Cavs(as long as LeBron is there and at the top of his game), the Celtics(assuming they don't squander their capspace and assets), and the Bucks. And the gulf between Cleveland and those other two teams is massive at the moment. Until a lot of those organizations get their collective sh-t together, this trend is gonna continue even after LeBron retires.

 

Oh please. I don't know who Nick Wright is, but I think he's an idiot.

Players usually go where the money is. Why would anyone fear LeBron more than they fear the Spurs or the Warriors.

 

Lol, dropping that hard "NEXT" really gets people HOT. Sorry!

 

Shaq, Dwight, Lin.

 

When did Nick Wright become such a Lebron dick rider? This is a pretty ridiculous take.

 

Nick wright acts like there were no sports before the athletes he idolized were around. The east has alwaye had that problem since the mid 9os. You can easily lebron avoided the west because it's the best. Gu just loves hearing himself say the most absurd things for reaction and ignorance, both

 

i heard young players picked other sports in school so they don't have to join the nba and get drafted to the east and face lerbon.