Marc Stein: Christopher Paul is already recruiting Lebron

how the Rockets could sign LeBron (4 scenarios)

 

Philly about to fire Bryan and hire David Griffin to give us a run for our money on LeBron in the off season

 

CP3 been in LeBron ear all season most likely

 

Don’t put that trash on the same post as those 3 marvelous players! Delete that fool! He needs to be shipped out! Give him a front office job and convince him to retire!

 

Not 1, not 2, not 3, not 4, not 5, 6!

 

Correct, we won one last night and it was stolen.

 

Point God! Still dishing out dimes and being a leader.

 

This is like the Draymond and KD moves. Draymond was recruiting KD the entire season and immediately called KD and the GM after game 7.

CP3 and Harden going to get the King here and stick it to the Warriors fake Dynasty

 

But Harden will finally have his 2nd official and 3rd real MVP. Harden is getting his statue at Toyota Center and has his endorsement and contract money. He needs championships, LBJ needs championships, CP3 needs championships. What happens when you put the right people together with a singular goal?

 

That's not how any of this works in the CBA and people have to stop saying that we would gut the team and acting like we would keep Anderson. Anderson would be going. We have Tucker and Gordon under contract and the ability to resign Ariza so there is nothing to give up with him. He is not part of any deal.

 

More insecurity from Durant.

He really does suffer from a complex.

 

There are hard cap implications though. We can’t just add him + match Capela + resign CP3 to a max. More salary would have to be shed to keep it under $129m. Which likely means Ego and Tuck would need to go (you might need to trade them to get the assets to move Ryno anyway). Unless of course CP3, LBJ take huge cuts and/Capela doesn’t get maxed.

 

I'm paraphrasing what Jalen said:

If I'm LeBron, I'm not leaving. I'm already well integrated in my own community in Cleveland. It may be easy for a regular player to move, but not when you're the best player in the world like LeBron. There's a chance I can recruit someone to come play with me. There's some kind of delusion going around like the Cleveland Cavaliers are coming back with the same roster next year. We saw with our own eyes the Cavs bring in Rose, IT, etc. When that didn't work out, they scrapped it and had a new team. There is no guarantee I'm gonna win a title in Houston or Philly, because CP3 or Joel Embiid might get hurt. For a player like LeBron, you don't want to move around wearing different jerseys.

In fact, we underestimate the domino that is CP3. For example, say the Houston Rockets decide not to give CP3 his money. CP3 could ask the Rockets to sign and trade him to Cleveland.

 

Kerr purposely loses games to Lebron and makes every game close as to make Bron think hes good enough to win in Cleveland and to stay away from Houston..

 

I'm smelling whenever I think tucker, lebron ariza, harden and paul line up, 24 minutes of this lineup can destroy most teams.

 

LOL nobody wants to play in cleveland jalen.