[d-ravParticipant]

With Bron now all but bolting during free agency, where does this leave the Cavs. While it is the nature of the business, you can’t help but feel sorry for them. No GM, coach, center. and their new franchise player (JJ Hickson) is relegated to the bench to make way for all star tweener Antawn Jamison. What can the Cavs possibly get in return for LBJ to at least allow them to build a legit playoff team? Maybe Luol Deng?

[brennenrundParticipant]

I’d assume LeBron agrees to a sign and trade (it gives him the most money) The Cavs can get Luol Deng, and maybe 2 first round picks or a first and a second. We’ll get to see how good the supporting cast really was for Bron, I say they struggle to go .500 and are teetering on the edge of the playoffs.

[PlatypusParticipant]

they’ll probably just start Hickson at the center, he has a long wingspan so he’ll play like a Horford where he should be playing powerforward but he is too good to sit so he plays small at center even though he’s 6’9

[esperanzafleet69Participant]

LOL the cavs without lebron a FRINGE PLAYOFF TEAM???? PFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

i bet once lebron leaves the cavs immediately go to the bottom 5 in the league…

[SteroidParticipant]

Yeah, they’re going to be garbage IF LeBron leaves. At best, they could possibly be a .400 win team without him. Hopefully they can get a sign-and-trade to at least get something…

[brennenrundParticipant]

I forgot the east was stacked, and sub .500 teams don’t make the playoffs.

[[email protected]Participant]

C Shaq(15 and 8)
PF Hickson(12 and 7)
SF Jamison(20 and 6)
SG Manny Harris or Anthony Parker(10 and 2)
PG Mo Williams(20 and 6)

6 man Verajao(10 and 10)
7 man Deng(15 and 6)
8 man West(10 and 6)

[SpencerIsHawesome2Participant]

shaq’s a FA no chance in hell he goes back to the cavs if lebrons not there.. I see Shaq goin to the Mavericks, with an outside chance of maybe the Thunder or Spurs

[BothTeamsPlayedHardParticipant]

With Bron now all but bolting during free agency, where does this leave the Cavs. While it is the nature of the business, you can’t help but feel sorry for them. No GM, coach, center. and their new franchise player (JJ Hickson) is relegated to the bench to make way for all star tweener Antawn Jamison. What can the Cavs possibly get in return for LBJ to at least allow them to build a legit playoff team? Maybe Luol Deng?

“With Bron now all but bolting during free agency, where does this leave the Cavs.” Stupid baseless comment number 1.

“their new franchise player (JJ Hickson) is relegated to the bench to make way for all star tweener Antawn Jamison.” Stupid baseless comment number 2.

What can the Cavs possibly get in return for LBJ to at least allow them to build a legit playoff team? Maybe Luol Deng?
Stupid baseless comment number 3.

Congrats. It is really hard to put that much stupidity in such a compact paragraph.

Take what is said on ESPN with a grain of salt. They are driven by ratings, not journalistic integrity. Throwing out rumors linking LeBron to NYC (20 million people), LA (18 million people), Chicago (9 million people), and Dallas (6 million people) gets them viewers from the top four population bases in the country. I’m sure their screening process for what to run with is along the lines of before the Enquirer puts Big Foot on the cover only and ignoring the fact it was just Zoubek getting off the Duke team bus. This whole process is a marketing campaign for LeBron’s brand and easy media stories. Nothing more. He is still almost certainly going to stay in Cleveland. Does anyone really believe he wants to admit that he can’t do it on his own? Of course not.

Second, on the off chance LeBron leaves, the only way Cleveland agrees to a sign-and-trade is if whoever signs him takes either Jamison or Varejao as well. It isn’t like Cleveland is going to be good if LeBron leaves, so they might as well position themselves for the lottery and 2011 free agency. The last thing they would want is Luol Deng’s hideous money on their balance sheet.

[RUDEBOY_Participant]

The Cavs have won more games the past 2 seasons then any team..
Mike Brown’s lack of offensive creativity really handicapped that team…
Mo Williams proved during the playoffs that he’s overrated..No matter how much how cries on Twitter begging not to be traded..They need to get rid of him….
Depending too much on Parker who was brought in for his outside shooting & defense but during the playoffs he failed to show it…
Resting Lebron those last few games of the season threw the team out of sync….
And all that talk of Lebron leaving makes great drama..But he’s not going anywhere….

[SteroidParticipant]

Lol. I don’t see why I got a neg on my previous post, and yes, .500 teams make it to the playoffs in the eastern conference…

Miami- .573
Milwaukee- .561
Charlotte- .537
Chicago- .500

If the Cavs lose LeBron, yes they could possibly have a chance to make the playoffs, but the chances are extremely low. If a Raptors team with a superstar in CB4 couldn’t make the playoffs this year at .488, why would I think that a possible LeBron Jameless Cavs team could make it this coming year; moreover why would a Cavs team like that get above .400 without LeBron unless they get a sign-and-trade worst case scenario. Even some of the teams in the bottom half of the eastern conference have all-star caliber players (Danny Granger, Andre Iguodala). LeBron makes that team tick and no one would replace him on it. Some of the underlying reasons why his team played so good is because they played hard for LeBron. The comradery on that team was the best there has been in the league in the past 2 seasons all because of LeBron and that possibly could be gone the coming season.

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