By delaying his decision and putting the entire basketball world on hold, LeBron is indeed milking this for all it's worth. If you think he's still deciding then I don't know what to say. If he's stays in Miami, LeBron will deserve the wave of venom coming his way. If he goes back to Cleveland, this was all very well played.
Lebron has an obligation to decide quickly with less information because why? To keep twitter under control? Free agency started a week and a half ago - he hasn't even heard all of the offers yet. Because the teams haven't figured out what they're doing, Yet he has to turn Cleveland down IMMEDIATELY because he is obligated to squelch years old adolescent Stephen A Smith/Broussard/Simmons fantasies - or even better, prove he's a loyal guy by turning his back on Miami. Logic by Ionesco. Straight up absurd. LeBron will be vilified regardless so it doesn't matter - he should make whatever decision is the best. Timing your thought process to correspond with the whims of the twitterverse is a fool's errand. And nobody will remember it in a week anyway. He'll sign a 1 year deal with Miami if I had to guess
All publicity is good publicity... The NBA is killing it in July I can see a remorseful homeboy coming back to help rebuild, especially after missing so badly in what might have been his best shot with the glamour squad. America loves redemption, it would be the biggest sports story of 2014... and sell a ton of stuff.
He isn't obliged to do anything. LeBron could wait two more weeks and have as much fun as he wants toying with the NBA. Twitter would eventually die down. There is no lack of information. He's heard all the offers, same as every other free agent. All teams have figured what they want to do. There is nothing left to talk about. The pause is his deliberate choice.
Baseball players get months to make decisions on what they will do in free agency. Lebron gets a week.
It's so lazy and dumb. How about another version - Rich ass hole con man who defrauded his way to being a billionaire by leveraging poor people to bilk investors and ultimately the government throws a temper tantrum when one of his employees, who was vastly underpaid yet generates vast sums of money for rich ******* con man, deems himself to not be the property of rich ******* conman. Employee goes on to fame and fortune. Rich ass hole conman continues to showcase his ineptitude at running a basketball team despite being rewarded with extraordinary luck. Employee then decides to return to the employ of rich ass hole con man and generates hundreds of millions of dollars for him. Basically - a classic American tale of the times we live in.
Wow so not only is every possible move /course now set in stone, but LeBron knows them all and is obliged to make the first move. It's sort of like Principe's assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Russia didn't want to go to war over Serbia with Austria-Hungary but they just kind of had to, so Germany inevitably was going to mobilize provoking the same from afrance. I just wish Lebron would get his men to Belgium already and stop making us wait for like DAYS
I'm pretty sure he didn't start thinking about his free agency when the clock struck midnight on July 1st.
Jarret Jack traded per ESPN Well, this could be big news. Cleveland sent out Zeller AND a future first to get rid of Jack and his contract. They now have more than enough cap space for Lebron... Something HAS to be happening. There's no way Cleveland would do this unless they already had a verbal guarantee from somebody.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>As <a href="https://twitter.com/ESPNSteinLine">@ESPNSteinLine</a> reports, Cavs unload Jack/Zeller/Karasev in 3-way. Asked Cavs official: Still in it for James? "I believe so," he says.</p>— Adrian Wojnarowski (@WojYahooNBA) <a href="https://twitter.com/WojYahooNBA/statuses/486881779551571968">July 9, 2014</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>In addition to Pat Riley, it is believed Miami's Erik Spoelstra, Mickey Arison and Dwyane Wade will attend today's meeting with LeBron James</p>— Chris Broussard (@Chris_Broussard) <a href="https://twitter.com/Chris_Broussard/statuses/486821951382757376">July 9, 2014</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Sources: Cavs pursuing Ray Allen</p>— Chris Broussard (@Chris_Broussard) <a href="https://twitter.com/Chris_Broussard/statuses/486887891378122752">July 9, 2014</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
