Maybe this has already been said in this thread-- again. But maybe Lebron is starting to see the fincial potential of associating with Yao Ming and the Chinese audience. Also, he can imagine how many people world wide would be now watching his games with the Rockets. Also, there are a lot of wealthy Chinese nowadays--to spend money on LeBron sponsored items. They may not spend as much money as New Yorkers, but there are a whole hell lot more of them. Give me 1 billion peole spending $2 on me vs. 8 million people spending $100 on me any day of the week. :grin: So you never know.......
Who knows what Yao might do with his contract as well. Yao is going for the MLE so we can get Lebron and Wade...
It's not about the best offer. It's about where he wants to go. If he says Houston, then they just have to make an offer that is better than Cleveland just keeping the cap space. That offer would be much less than this one.
rockets sign & trade for lebron james: aaron brooks trevor ariza jared jeffries (expiring contract) 2011 first round pick new york's 2012 first round pick 2012 second round pick $3 million cash rockets sign & trade for chris bosh: luis scola jordan hill shane battier (expiring contract) rights to swap 2011 first round picks with new york 2011 second round pick 2012 first round pick $3 million cash bring over sergio llull from spain (we have his draft rights) use part of or all of the midlevel exception on brad miller afterwards, we'd have a lineup of: PG - kyle lowry, sergio llull SG - kevin martin, jermaine taylor, mike harris SF - lebron james, chase budinger, alexander johnson PF - chris bosh, patrick patterson, chuck hayes C - yao ming, brad miller, david andersen that's a pretty damn good team. how this could happen: this team might not have quite as strong of a starting 5 versus if lebron and bosh went to chicago, but it's close. it's also deeper than any team that chicago, miami, or new york could put together since they've gutted their teams in order to clear cap space (llull and patterson would be very experienced as far as rookies go). if lebron and bosh do a sign & trade instead of outright signing with a new team, then they'd earn around $30 million more doing so. additionally, there is no state tax in houston, so they'd end up saving a lot of money that way. plus with the "yao ming effect", they'd end up with a lot more fans and a lot more endorsements from china. resulting in even more money and more worldwide appeal. so from a financial and competitive standpoint, a sign & trade to the rockets makes a lot of sense for lebron and bosh (assuming both go together). financially, they’d probably make more with the rockets than with any other team in the league. so, if the cavs and the raptors are convinced that lebron and bosh are going to sign with other teams, then doing a sign & trade at least gets them back something. if they are going to do a sign & trade, then the rockets have a lot of pieces to make this happen. yes, some teams could offer more (like if the lakers offered bynum for bosh) -- but if lebron and bosh forced a sign & trade to specifically to houston, the cavs and raptors would still get a decent return.
Chicago isn't so gutted; they have Deng, Rose, Noah, plus the cap space to sign some decent role players after landing Bosh and maybe another big-time FA.
Add Dallas to that list. Though considered a longshot, Dallas will get to make their pitch. Dallas, like many other teams, also interested in talking to Bosh and Joe Johnson. http://sports.espn.go.com/dallas/nba/news/story?id=5334365&campaign=rss&source=DALLASHeadlines
This thread is still going? Has there already been the following analysis already? Given: Rockets need S&T to get Lebron. Cleveland has stated they will not S&T Lebron to any team. Conclusion: Rockets cannot get Lebron. /thread
if lebron could be traded for by a sNT it would have to be something appealing for cleavland, they need some kind of star or they need to dump jamison too because a bunch of scrubs and jamison isn't going anywhere. it would have to be kevin martin, ariza, and jeffries and hill for james and jameson. this way people would actually showup to games in cleavland. that move would give us a gaping hole at the 2 guard but thats what MLE would be used for like something like mike miller or someone else. brooks/lowry miller/j taylor lebron/battier scola/jamison yao/hayes we can all pray cant we?
Since we've put out all these crazy ideas, here's another one: Why don't we get Morey to sleep with LeBron's mother, and then maybe she'll convince him to come to the Rockets after Morey rocked her world!
It sucks, but we can't know anything about signing Lebron or Bosh until it happens, or they sign somewhere else.
