The Cavaliers play Carmelo Anthony and the New York Knicks tomorrow night in New York. In all seriousness, it seems unlikely that this dream team will ever come together in the National Basketball Association. “I should be there.’ There was one point in time where they were looking at me like that”.
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Let’s cover a few of the Melo-centric highlights, shall we? But here’s a question that does remain unanswered with him, for now: How much is enough? We’d all have to take pay cuts.
James’ new super-team idea quickly gained traction, tantalizing the National Basketball Association world with the thought of some of the best players of this generation teaming up. “We are who we are”.
One of these days, we’re going to learn that LeBron hasn’t given up a dream about being an astronaut, either. Kobe Bryant is having a farewell tour on a disgusting Lakers team.
“It was the right play”.
If that fails, James could assert and push to bring Anthony and Paul to him. James confirmed that he had hinted to Anthony that he should take the three-year contract so they could team up, but Anthony opted for more guaranteed money and James and Wade ended up filling out their star-studded HEAT roster with Chris Bosh instead. “Don’t be down on yourself”.
“I don’t know how realistic it could be”, James said. That would lock the Cavaliers in at a hard cap of $4 million above the luxury-tax threshold, but it might be worth it. Any attempt to sign Wade for more than that using cap space, though, is impossible without also losing Thompson.
As SB Nation’s Yaron Weitzman and Mike Prada detailed, for four players to join up, it would require several blockbuster trades – like Kevin Love for Carmelo Anthony and Kyrie Irving for Chris Paul. He mentions a random pass Melo threw to Robin Lopez from a game against the Nuggets, so clearly this guy watches his friend play. All the latter hopes to do is play with Anthony. (LeBron) unfollowing the organization.
“It is not given that every year you have a team like this where you have an opportunity to do something special”, James said Thursday, reiterating his call for Cleveland to get in playoff-push mode.
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“I don’t know what their mindset is gonna be”. If you remember correctly in 2010, D-Wade and LeBron were planning to make their big three with Melo but Melo had taken a 5 year contract and so they added Bosh instead. “I would actually take a pay cut to do that”, James said, via Bleacher Reports’ Howard Beck. We can get a year in. “I know the reason why I stuck it out, and people that really understand know why I’m sticking it out”.
