POLL: Will you blame Lebron if he leaves this summer?

some one should do a mixtape with the song alone in a room by asking Alexandria.

The Red Viper said:

I don't know, man.

People have short memories.

Look at them sucking off KD.

I don't think he goes to Houston. IMO, it will be Philly most likely!

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The ONLY people sucking off KD are ESPN and Warriors fans. That doesn't count.

Most NBA fans, and many NBA commentators on other networks have no respect for KD.

flop said:

In what world is that even realistic?

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What do you mean? It was realistic THIS YEAR had the officials not rigged the games.

Of course you can't blame him. But I will most definitely not root for him in any other uniform, and will hope his new team ends up like the 2013-2014 Heat. Getting steamrolled...

One would think that as a competitor he would love to just stick in Durant's face again, the way Westbrook did, that you don't have to be a coward to win. But LeBron is all buddy-buddy with KD, the way most of today's NBA is, so I highly doubt he cares.

Jscc said:

No. LeBron better get a standing ovation upon his first return too. He has played all 82 games + 18 post-season. Many of the latter all 48 minutes. He refused to allow a concussion and getting his eye poked out stop him. Not much more he can do.

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He could give it more than 2 tries where he made the Finals both years before deeming the situation hopeless!!! Also he won’t get an ovation because the majority of fans that feel this way won’t be at Cavaliers games if he leaves...

TitleTown said:

The ONLY people sucking off KD are ESPN and Warriors fans. That doesn't count.

Most NBA fans, and many NBA commentators on other networks have no respect for KD.

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and the officials. because apparently, defending him is illegal.
(oh wait... forgot this isn't the game thread)

The Wizard of Moz said:

He could give it more than 2 tries where he made the Finals both years before deeming the situation hopeless!!! Also he won’t get an ovation because the majority of fans that feel this way won’t be at Cavaliers games if he leaves...

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Interesting thoughts. How do you see us retooling the roster to give him a chance against GS? Honest question and not a rhetorical one. What pieces do we trade?

By the way, I'm sure most of the fan base opinion will change as the summer carries on, and him in no hurry to give an answer. The longer he carries this out, the worse the off-season will be for the Cavs. Heck half the team knows their future with the Cavs is in LeBron's hands for the next 2 months.

LeBron will most likely hold the organization hostage again, and we panic and do something stupid like deal the pick for Kemba, then LeBron bolts anyways. Or we do nothing, and then all we will hear is how LeBron would have stayed if the front office had been more aggressive to get better.

Depends on how he handles it. If he screws us over like the first time where we basically had to waste a summer because we didn't know his intentions, I'll be annoyed.

If he comes up to Gilbert after the finals and says "hey man, I'm gone, plan accordingly", then no, I won't blame him or be angry at him a bit.

fan0283 said:

Interesting thoughts. How do you see us retooling the roster to give him a chance against GS? Honest question and not a rhetorical one. What pieces do we trade?

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Truthfully, it will take a bit of a long game approach. My eyes are on Kawhi



The cap in 19-20 is projected to be 108 million. So we would have 4 million in space.

George Hill only has a 1 million dollar guarantee for 2019-20. See ya George. Up to 21 million in space.

JR is only guaranteed 3.87 million for 2019-20. Sad to see him go, but see ya Swish. Now we have 33 million in space.

Tristan will be an expiring at this point and I think he has played well enough this postseason that he won't have negative value. If we trade him that puts us at around 51 million in cap space.

Truthfully Clarkson kind of fucks this up. Wish we never traded for him. Hope cap space is at enough of a premium that expirings matter enough that we can move him. Assuming we can then we are up to around 65 million in space.

The salary of the 8th pick in the draft in his second year should be around 4-5 million.

So we are basically looking at 60 million for Kawhi and LeBron. It'll involve a bit of a cut, but so would going to Houston for LeBron.

It also involves gutting the team (Hood and Nance are not re-signed in this scenario), but a core of Love/LBJ/Kawhi would fucking carve through any opposition as long as LeBron is even 90% of his current form

It also involves one more "growth" year. It requires a little bit of patience. But teaming Kawhi and LeBron up I think would pay off handsomely in the future. I just can't see anyone stopping those 2. For my money they're the 2 best players in the NBA... put a fucking pine cone and a traffic light at the 1 and the 2 and it would barely matter with that LBJ/Kawhi combo

BrutX15 said:

Of course you can't blame him. But I will most definitely not root for him in any other uniform, and will hope his new team ends up like the 2013-2014 Heat. Getting steamrolled...

One would think that as a competitor he would love to just stick in Durant's face again, the way Westbrook did, that you don't have to be a coward to win. But LeBron is all buddy-buddy with KD, the way most of today's NBA is, so I highly doubt he cares.

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What makes you think he doesn't want to stick it in Durant's face?

The Wizard of Moz said:

Truthfully, it will take a bit of a long game approach. My eyes are on Kawhi

The cap in 19-20 is projected to be 108 million. So we would have 4 million in space.

George Hill only has a 1 million dollar guarantee for 2019-20. See ya George. Up to 21 million in space.

JR is only guaranteed 3.87 million for 2019-20. Sad to see him go, but see ya Swish. Now we have 33 million in space.

Tristan will be an expiring at this point and I think he has played well enough this postseason that he won't have negative value. If we trade him that puts us at around 51 million in cap space.

Truthfully Clarkson kind of fucks this up. Wish we never traded for him. Hope cap space is at enough of a premium that expirings matter enough that we can move him. Assuming we can then we are up to around 65 million in space.

The salary of the 8th pick in the draft in his second year should be around 4-5 million.

So we are basically looking at 60 million for Kawhi and LeBron. It'll involve a bit of a cut, but so would going to Houston for LeBron.

It also involves gutting the team (Hood and Nance are not re-signed in this scenario), but a core of Love/LBJ/Kawhi would fucking carve through any opposition as long as LeBron is even 90% of his current form

It also involves one more "growth" year. It requires a little bit of patience. But teaming Kawhi and LeBron up I think would pay off handsomely in the future. I just can't see anyone stopping those 2. For my money they're the 2 best players in the NBA... put a fucking pine cone and a traffic light at the 1 and the 2 and it would barely matter with that LBJ/Kawhi combo

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If Spurs decide to trade Kawhi, there are lot of teams with better assets than us who can acquire Kawhi though.

The Red Viper said:

If Spurs decide to trade Kawhi, there are lot of teams with better assets than us who can acquire Kawhi though.

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The scenario I laid out is signing Kawhi in free agency after the 2018-19 season

The Wizard of Moz said:

The scenario I laid out is signing Kawhi in free agency after the 2018-19 season

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That scenario is not even remotely on the table. LeBron wasting his 34 year old season is not happening. If He stays with the Cavs, DG will have to eat even more money to improve the team, making our salary cap situation even worse going forward.

The Wizard of Moz said:

The scenario I laid out is signing Kawhi in free agency after the 2018-19 season

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Ohh, I don't think Kawhi would come here in free-agency.

Kawhi wants to go to a place where he will be marketed. His group ie his uncle and rest of his entourage feel he isn't getting as much props as he deserves because he is playing in a small market like San Antonio.

I feel either Pop makes it work with him and Kawhi signs a super-max or something or Kawhi leaves for somewhere like Lakers.