<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Perhaps only this stands between Dwyane Wade and his Miami Heat departure: Possible one-on-one meeting with owner Micky Arison today.</p>— Adrian Wojnarowski (@WojVerticalNBA) <a href="https://twitter.com/WojVerticalNBA/status/750691527278682113">July 6, 2016</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">For now, there's still no Miami Heat meeting set for Wade today, league sources tell <a href="https://twitter.com/TheVertical">@TheVertical</a>. Still a fluid conversation.</p>— Adrian Wojnarowski (@WojVerticalNBA) <a href="https://twitter.com/WojVerticalNBA/status/750693519237545984">July 6, 2016</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Dwyane Wade had fourth-best PER (20.42) among SGs this season. He trailed only James Harden (max), DeMar DeRozan (max), Jimmy Butler (max).</p>— Alex Kennedy (@AlexKennedyNBA) <a href="https://twitter.com/AlexKennedyNBA/status/750694724919492608">July 6, 2016</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Sources say that Dwyane Wade WILL meet with the Miami Heat today in New York. Micky Arison is hoping to smooth things over with Wade.</p>— Alex Kennedy (@AlexKennedyNBA) <a href="https://twitter.com/AlexKennedyNBA/status/750699810295058441">July 6, 2016</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Not only is Denver preparing to offer Dwyane Wade a two-year deal worth over $50 million, team source says Mike Miller is there for pitch.</p>— Alex Kennedy (@AlexKennedyNBA) <a href="https://twitter.com/AlexKennedyNBA/status/750700478955196416">July 6, 2016</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
I think it's all posturing, meeting with Denver. He's either going to chase a ring with his buddies Melo or Lebron or stay in Miami and get paid like Dirk. Denver makes no sense, especially since it's in the same conference as GSW.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Milwaukee's Khris Middleton and Jason Kidd have also been recruiting Dwyane Wade. The Bucks' brass will meet with Wade today.</p>— Alex Kennedy (@AlexKennedyNBA) <a href="https://twitter.com/AlexKennedyNBA/status/750701476255821824">July 6, 2016</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Jimmy Butler and Rajon Rondo have been recruiting Dwyane Wade to Chicago, according to sources close to situation.</p>— Alex Kennedy (@AlexKennedyNBA) <a href="https://twitter.com/AlexKennedyNBA/status/750701339873869824">July 6, 2016</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
Agreed. I think this is all just leverage to get more money from the Heat. Much deserved too, with all the discounts he's given them during his career.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Sources: Denver, Dwyane Wade free agent meeting ongoing now in New York. Bucks, Bulls on tap this afternoon.</p>— Adrian Wojnarowski (@WojVerticalNBA) <a href="https://twitter.com/WojVerticalNBA/status/750710720724078592">July 6, 2016</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Sources on <a href="https://twitter.com/TheVertical">@TheVertical</a>: Free agent Dwyane Wade and Denver officials just completed a 2.5 hour meeting in New York.</p>— Adrian Wojnarowski (@WojVerticalNBA) <a href="https://twitter.com/WojVerticalNBA/status/750729181122719744">July 6, 2016</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
Lebron is trying to maximize his earnings. He has no interest in giving up cash. He has manipulated everything, including the player's association's refusal to accept cap smoothing, in order to get himself the maximum dollars. It's awesome to me that a handful of star players manipulated the league's players into resisting the owners attempts at cap smoothing and other payout mechanisms so that they can get the richest deals possible before the CBA blows up. Lebron isn't going to give a damn about the player's union in a few years.
So basically, are you saying Lebron had a big part of GSW Superfriends forming? No cap-smoothing basically enabled GSW to have huge cap space this offseason to pick up Durant? Funny how life works out sometimes...
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Miami's getting its final sit-down with free agent Dwyane Wade, league sources tell <a href="https://twitter.com/TheVertical">@TheVertical</a>: Meeting set with owner Micky Arison today.</p>— Adrian Wojnarowski (@WojVerticalNBA) <a href="https://twitter.com/WojVerticalNBA/status/750744138493095936">July 6, 2016</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Sources on <a href="https://twitter.com/TheVertical">@TheVertical</a>: Free agent Dwyane Wade is meeting with Milwaukee Bucks co-owner Marc Lasry.</p>— Adrian Wojnarowski (@WojVerticalNBA) <a href="https://twitter.com/WojVerticalNBA/status/750739835598565376">July 6, 2016</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
How did LeBron and other stars manipulate a majority of the other players for their own benefit? Link or any support for this? Players like Parsons wanted the cap to jump for LeBron instead of for themselves? I can see how it's easy to simply connect the dots for LeBron running everything in Cleveland, but for the union and all the other players? Need to see something for that. There are 450 roster spots in the league. 174 players were set to be free agents this summer and 110 next summer (http://www.spotrac.com/nba/free-agents/). 63% of players were in position to benefit from free agency this summer or the next. Most of those players would never see the type of money they will see now. That's why players didn't want cap smoothing.
Right now I'm predicting a mvoe to Chicago, makes a lot of sense to go to his hometown at the end of his career and with Rose out.
Cap smoothing is misunderstood. People think it would have kept money away from players. That's not what would have happened at all. The primary proposal would have kept the cap from exploding and then taken the money that would have gone to an increased cap and paid it directly to the player's association to be evenly distributed to all players. So let's say instead of a 94 million cap it was only 80. You are talking about $420 million in yearly revenue that would have been paid out year 1 which have netted every player in the league about $1 million. This would happen each year as the cap slowly rose and the payout slowly dropped. Lebron got heavily involved in the union a few years ago and worked with Chris Paul to stir up a lot of anger within the players. Some of it is certainly justified, but the biggest problem the stars have is the max salary. The reason they were so anti the cap smoothing projection is because all of the stars who are in power positions in the union now are going to be free agents in these first two years to truly benefit. The players who will not benefit are going to be lower rung players who don't get multi-year guarantees for big dollars these first two years and then free agents who come along when the cap stalls in two years. They'll be right back to making mid level dollars (though the mid level will have spiked) and there won't be all of this free money to just pay every good free agent huge dollars and allow players to move wherever they want. But it doesn't matter because Lebron will have his $200 million contract which he has been angling for now for 3 years. This isn't to say no one is benefiting from this spike because of course they are. A guy like Ryan Anderson is FAR better off thanks to the cap spike and earning $80 million instead of say $52-$60 million over four years. So individually the highly compensated would have suffered from cap smoothing. However, the amount paid out would be the exact same.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Bulls are still talking to Wade, reps. Just stating management isn't in New York. Remember: Bulls hosted Wade twice in 2010 free agency.</p>— K.C. Johnson (@KCJHoop) <a href="https://twitter.com/KCJHoop/status/750755372776947715">July 6, 2016</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">A source just told me, he expects Arison to offer Wade the 50+ Million over 2 years, but that 3rd year won't be on table. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Heat?src=hash">#Heat</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/NBC6Sports">@NBC6Sports</a></p>— Stefano Fusaro (@StefanoNBC6) <a href="https://twitter.com/StefanoNBC6/status/750757708525998080">July 6, 2016</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Sources: Bulls cancelled meeting, flight kept getting pushed back. If Wade is still serious, Chicago could travel to meet him on Thursday.</p>— Adrian Wojnarowski (@WojVerticalNBA) <a href="https://twitter.com/WojVerticalNBA/status/750760648687153152">July 6, 2016</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
