[The Basketball Jones] Does Lebron James want to trade Chris Bosh for Chris Paul?

This is just gossip. There's no certainty to this and doubt it'll actually come fruition. Stop reading into stuff like this so much and giving it the time of day.

 

That's stupid!!

 

They should just trade Bosh for depth. They'd be better off with Scola, Ariza, Lowry than with Bosh alone. Paul's style would just annoy the other two stars IMO.

 

it's not either or.

the original "Dream Team" that they cooked up in 2006 was for Bosh, Lebron and Wade to team up in 2010 then Paul come join them whereever they ended up

of course none of them actually thought Riley could make Bosh + Lebron + Wade a reality so it was just a pipe dream. but I've read in many sources that Paul is part of that posse and they wanted to ALL play together

yeah this. we're all ****ed really... time to start watching Manchester United or something. the way that Stern is running the league and how stacked that Miami team already is from 1-8 is going to make watching the NBA outside of Houston games suck for a long long time

 

The most hilarious thing about this is Bosh's original quotes:

LOL! Man, was he feeding some bull****.

 

. . .right...but as always, LeBron is the enabled diva who's had EVERYTHING he's wanted his entire life. You think the GM and owner really denied him a player he's wanted? NO

 

I've thought the same thing, if Wade and LeBron can't co-exist, maybe LeBron ends up in New Orleans (after the ownership change). Three-way trade, New Orleans ships out Collison, West and Posey.

 

I don't think that I have posted - linked to any articles - stories that came out <i>after the decision</i>.

If I did, please point them out to me so that I can apologize to you for my error.

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How many open roster slots did Cleveland have to fill each season?
How many open roster slots did Miami have to fill this Summer?

Once they gained some players with longer contracts in 2005, there wasn't much roster space to fill compared to what Miami has this Summer. Is that fair to compare situations that aren't the same?

LeBron a bystander?

Sources: LeBron denies Ariza's story

Cavs get Wallace from Bulls, Szczerbiak from Sonics

Hughes leaving Wizards to become LeBron's running mate

Bucks send Williams to Cavaliers in three-team deal

LeBron ridicules offseason trade rumors

 

^^^^

Mango pwns LeBron apologists. :grin:

 

Stop it, your making LeDouche cry!

 

All that Mango showed, was James asking for more help, as any star player in the league ask's for.
There is still no proof James asked Ferry for a certain player and got him, that Ferry hadn't already mentioned to James that they were trying to get.
Every GM, is going to try to keep there star players happy, look at CP3, Kobe and Melo, al; have asked for help from there GM.

 

Hughes leaving Wizards to become LeBron's running mate

 

Wish list, that's not going after 1 player, James could have had over 20 players on that list, doesn't mean ferry used the list to go after players.

 

That would be funny, you can bet that bosh will be the first one traded.

 

Every superstar has any comment after every big move, and every superstar has a wishlist of players they'd like to play with if the team had the cap room to do it. Put things into context here, LeBron isn't just the ordinary Shane Battier, he's far better. Hell, most recently, Bosh had a wishlist of teams to sign with given to Toronto.

Hell, people below him ask for much more. People at his level demand the same. To give you more recent examples, Kobe campaigned for Fisher to stay, was set to meet with Raja Bell, etc. **** like that happens when you're a top 5 player. You make it seem like LeBron did something that all players of his calibers don't do.

You do realize Kobe through a fit when the Lakers didn't finalize the Carlos Boozer or Jason Kidd trade?

You do realize why T-Mac became a Rocket in the first place?

You do realize Jordan threatened to retire if the Bulls had traded Pippen in '97 for the rights to Tracy McGrady?

Just some more examples. But on a scale of superstars recruiting for their team and manipulating, LeBron was FAR less than Kobe, or Jordan, or any top 2-3 player of any year. Kobe demanded a trade, and Jordan was seconds away from fleeing to the Knicks had Chicago not overpaid, re-structured Pippen's deal. LeBron just left cold turkey. If Cleveland had any clue and weren't so delusional they would've seen this a LONG time ago. When someone gives you the cold shoulder, they don't want to be with you.

When you reach out to someone multiple times over 6 weeks, it's over. In any form of a relationship.

 

Just like how he had Joe Johnson, Michael Redd and many others in that off-season period. No **** players have people they want to play with.

Heck, Dwyane's this year were Bosh, Boozer, or LeBron. Rest is explained in my post. LeBron cannot be even compared to how Kobe, etc. manipulate. Don't even get me started with '04 fiasco in which kobe manipulated the ENTIRE Lakers franchise.

 

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Every source you post that says ferry is doing x because of what LeBron said has really no merit. If anything, ferry was strongly against givnig LeBron whatever he wanted. Infact, every place where you see Ferry you should see Gilbert. Gilbert created the monster that left him.

 

Here is the post that I first responded to in this thread.

<i>t_mac1</i> argued that LeBron wasn't involved at all in player movements by Cleveland and I have provided links suggesting otherwise. Since you appear to be in agreement with me in regards to LeBron being vocal and having the ear of Cleveland management in regards to player personnel decisions, then <i>t_mac1</i> is incorrect?

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