2010 NBA offseason draft, FA, etc etc...

That's the best thing you've read in a while?

 

Nothing to disagree with here... fuck Booyah and ESPN too...

 

And I don't begrudge him the right to play somewhere other than Cleveland. It's Cleveland. It blows. There's nothing to do in that town except masturbate and cry.

Boom ... roasted.

 

Hmmmm. Seems a little fishy:

The NBA salary cap for next season was set Wednesday at $58.04 million, a higher number than projected that could help Miami fill out a roster around Dwyane Wade, Chris Bosh and perhaps even LeBron James.

The cap goes into effect at 12:01 a.m. Thursday, ending the league's moratorium period and allowing free agentcontracts to be signed.

It's a slight increase from this season's $57.7 million cap, a surprise for teams considering what they were bracing for last summer.

The nearly $2 million more could be key for the Heat if they are able to persuade James to join Wade and Bosh, who announced Wednesday they plan to sign with Miami. The cap has no bearing on their first-year salaries in a maximum contract, which would be $16.6 million.

http://msn.foxsports.com/nba/story/NBA-salary-cap-rises-to-58-million-070710

 

Aren't these the Cavaliers colors? And fuck Norby Williamson too.

 

Seriously, I love Magary. I don't give a crap what anyone thinks. He's hilarious and despite the propensity for angry swearing, smart as hell. He's the funniest person writing about sports in the internet right now.

 

http://twitter.com/alanhahn/status/18009137969

Multiple sources are telling Newsday that LeBron James has decided to join Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh in Miami. The new Big Three is here.

 

The Evil Empire is reporting the same thing.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=5363055

 

Newsday beat them by two hours.

 

Thank God this dog and pony show is nearly through. Hourly updates that say next to nothing? Reporters strung out all over the country doing what exactly?

I'm actually glad I'm working the copy desk. We'll do one 15-18 inch story and that's it. None of this "history of LeBron James", "history of players to crap on the New York Knicks", "biggest contracts in NBA history" or any of that other crap. Sign the contract and STFU!!!

 

The most salient part of Woj's Yahoo! column:

James never shared that town’s angst with the Browns and Indians. He wanted winners in his life, and rooted for the Dallas Cowboys and New York Yankees. He doesn’t feel the pain of a city’s broken heart. Shaquille O’Neal(notes) leaving the Orlando Magic for the Los Angeles Lakers 14 years ago was a hard hit, but LeBron bailing on Cleveland is far more devastating on a different level.

Everyone ridicules Cleveland, makes it a butt of jokes, but LeBron James has the chance to change all of that. And even then, it has to crush Cleveland’s sporting psyche that James could still walk out. If one of our own won’t stay, what does that say to the rest of the country?

My interpretation: LeBrodriguez.