Overreaction Theater: What happens to Cavs if Warriors sweep?

[celticsclay]

If Cavs get swept/lose

anyone else can see Lebron reconstruct his salary , take 1 million a year ...to sign another max or near max player?

No.. I think he is pretty adamant about being paid appropriately. He also is highly involved with players union and this would go against what all the player shave fought for. Perhaps he retires?

[Dannys Chipotle Guy]

If Cavs get swept/lose

anyone else can see Lebron reconstruct his salary , take 1 million a year ...to sign another max or near max player?

Not a chance.

Incredibly unrealistic.

Even if he wanted to the NBPA would never allow it and hes the Edited.  Profanity and masked profanity are against forum rules and may result in discipline.ing vice president.

[BlackCeltic]

What if Cavs get swept? Lebron opts out next year, to the Cs if he is smart.

[Dannys Chipotle Guy]

What if Cavs get swept? Lebron opts out next year, to the Cs if he is smart.

cant opt out till after next year.

We wont have cap space.

[Tr1boy]

If Cavs get swept/lose

anyone else can see Lebron reconstruct his salary , take 1 million a year ...to sign another max or near max player?

Not a chance.

Incredibly unrealistic.

I disagree

he makes 50 plus million a year in endorsements alone

This is a guy that "skips" around so that he can secure championships (obsessed for rings)

So I can see him doing something desperate like this to one up on GSW

[celticsclay]

If Cavs get swept/lose

anyone else can see Lebron reconstruct his salary , take 1 million a year ...to sign another max or near max player?

Not a chance.

Incredibly unrealistic.

I disagree

he makes 50 plus million a year in endorsements alone

This is a guy that "skips" around so that he can secure championships (obsessed for rings)

So I can see him doing something desperate like this to one up on GSW

He wouldn't do it out of loyalty to the players union

[Dino Pitino]

Imagine if Lebron decided to join the Warriors too, lol.

[Tr1boy]

If Cavs get swept/lose

anyone else can see Lebron reconstruct his salary , take 1 million a year ...to sign another max or near max player?

Not a chance.

Incredibly unrealistic.

I disagree

he makes 50 plus million a year in endorsements alone

This is a guy that "skips" around so that he can secure championships (obsessed for rings)

So I can see him doing something desperate like this to one up on GSW

He wouldn't do it out of loyalty to the players union

i don't know

he only cares about rings

you think if Cavs are swept or manage to win only 1 game

he is going to "attack" the same way next season?

he is done trying to do it this way...thus jumping around to Miami, back to Cleveland..

[celticsclay]

If Cavs get swept/lose

anyone else can see Lebron reconstruct his salary , take 1 million a year ...to sign another max or near max player?

Not a chance.

Incredibly unrealistic.

I disagree

he makes 50 plus million a year in endorsements alone

This is a guy that "skips" around so that he can secure championships (obsessed for rings)

So I can see him doing something desperate like this to one up on GSW

He wouldn't do it out of loyalty to the players union

i don't know

he only cares about rings

you think if Cavs are swept or manage to win only 1 game

he is going to "attack" the same way next season?

he is done trying to do it this way...thus jumping around to Miami, back to Cleveland..

I think he will try to get wade or carmelo to accept minimums and make it up to them in other ways.

[nickagneta]

If Cavs get swept/lose

anyone else can see Lebron reconstruct his salary , take 1 million a year ...to sign another max or near max player?

Not a chance.

Incredibly unrealistic.

I disagree

he makes 50 plus million a year in endorsements alone

This is a guy that "skips" around so that he can secure championships (obsessed for rings)

So I can see him doing something desperate like this to one up on GSW

He wouldn't do it out of loyalty to the players union

i don't know

he only cares about rings

you think if Cavs are swept or manage to win only 1 game

he is going to "attack" the same way next season?

he is done trying to do it this sway...thus jumping around to Miami, back to Cleveland..

Lebron cares about money. He famously once said he wants to earn a billion dollars playing basketball. Also, as other's said, he is a union head. He could never take a vet minimum contract as it is against everything the union fights for....what he fights for.

[Beat LA]

I don't think there's a lot they can do, as they're pretty deeply leveraged to put together this current team.

Trading Love seems like the most obvious solution, but it's not clear for whom.  And they have to ask the question -- is it worth trading Love for pieces to maybe have a better chance against the Warriors if it undermines their ability to so thoroughly dominate the East?

Love has been pretty good against the Cavs' Eastern Conference opponents.


Honestly, I don't know if they necessarily need to do anything.  Kyrie - LeBron - Love - Thompson is going to continue to dominate the East for at least another few years, and simply getting to the Finals with a healthy LeBron on your team (even as he gets to age 33, 34, 35) should be enough to give you a chance of winning a title if the Warriors have some bad luck with injuries or suspensions.

That's what happened last season after all.  A confluence of factors created an opening for the Cavs to steal a title, and they did so in epic fashion.

And yet doing so would take away from Cleveland's seemingly only advantage over the Warriors (well, based off of the last two NBA Finals, anyway) - rebounding.  I missed game 2, but it's interesting to me that Tristan Thompson has yet to do, well, anything, over the first two contests, which makes me wonder if trading Thaddeus Young and Al Jefferson to Atlanta for Dwight Howard, in addition to picking up Arron Afflalo, would give the Pacers the best shot to get to the Finals.  Aside from Golden State, they're the only team that has played Cleveland tough and managed to get them down by, what, 25 in a game, even though they still lost . 

Bird should have kept Caris LeVert, done a sign and trade of Monta Ellis to the Pelicans for Eric Gordon (so at least New Orleans could have gotten something for him, lol ), signed Nene and Stephenson, moved George Hill to the bench as the third guard, which is where he belongs on a contender, imo, picked up a few undrafted free agents, and they would have had much more success last season, imo, and that's not even taking the decision to move on from Vogel into consideration.  Oh well, McMillan used to know how to coach .

Anyway, we are where we are, but why trade George when you can get Howard for peanuts?  He kills Thompson, and a starting 5 of Stephenson, Afflalo, George, Turner, and Howard matches up extremely well with Kyrie Irving, JR Smith, Lebron, Love, and Thompson, imo, and perhaps even with the Warriors, as well.  All they'd need to do would be to upgrade the bench and they'd be ready to go, imo . I don't think that George would ever have a better chance to get to the Finals, 12-13 and 13-14 notwithstanding, but that's me . Sorry if I hijacked the thread, btw.  Oops.

Would really like to see what you would want Ainge to do this summer.

Lol, no you don't .

[CelticSooner]

Bump. The shakeup in Cleveland shall begin.

[Phantom255x]

As a "2 for 1", "kill two birds with one stone" move for us and in our favor, I propose the Cavaliers get rid of Thompson!

He ALWAYS KILLS OUR TEAM, but has looked absolutely horrible this series.

If they let him go and we add Zizic + another big via trade, and another scorer (hopefully Hayward/Griffin) + Fultz, we may have a chance in a few years.

Lebron has played exceptional but you can tell he's losing a touch a bit now.

[celticsclay]

Bump. The shakeup in Cleveland shall begin.

It is almost there. Almost humble pie time in Cleveland

[Beat LA]

Bump. The shakeup in Cleveland shall begin.

It is almost there. Almost humble pie time in Cleveland

Nah, cupcakes .