With all the mess that is going on in Cleveland it just reminds me that LeBron has to be the best player in NBA history drafted by such a disaster of a franchise. Jordan had Jerry Krause, Phil Jackson and Tex Winter, Bryant had Jerry Buss, Jerry West and again Phil Jackson and Tex Winter, Magic and Kareem had Jerry Buss and Pat Riley and of course Russell and Bird had Auerbach.
So out of that 2003 Draft lottery, Miami Heat were the most professional organisation (polar opposite of Cavs) and if you look at the structure the Heat had and still has, one can make the case that today LeBron would be a better player if he began his career in Miami than Cleveland.
You would say that Riley and James would still have won the 2006 title but how many more titles would they have won together do you think? Would the big three have still come together?
So if Lebron was drafted by Miami, we need to re-work the lottery for the cavs...
I assume that it would go like this:
Cavs: Melo
Pistons: Darko
Nuggets: Bosh
Raptors: Wade
Heat: LeBron
and the rest goes as follows.
With this, I would like to first point out that the reason he left Miami in the first place was that of his promise to bring Cleveland a championship, and the additions of Kyrie Irving allowed him to quickly achieve that goal. Because he was never drafted by the Cavs in the first place, he would never leave the heat in the first place. Wade and Bosh could easily leave their teams for a much better team with Lebron on it and I see them win 3-4 championships from what they have.
For sure, the cavs would be in a mess, I mean Melo barely had loyalty to the nuggets and with a franchise like the cavs, I barely see him standing there now. Nuggets and Raptors would be in the same situations as the original timeline since Wade and Bosh both leave for the heat.
If Lebron was drafted by Miami, who would know how many rings Bron would have and how good they still would be....