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Cleveland Cavs (2016 NBA Champions)

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So there’s the Catch 22...Leonard will never come here unless LBJ is here, and he won’t commit to being here until they mortgage their future again to bring a guy that won’t come unless they know LBJ will 100% stay. Never going to work.
 
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Honestly, I think you have to consider it. The 8th pick probably won't amount to much this year (unless several teams fuck up at the top of the draft), and it will probably be decades before this organization is relevant again if LeBron leaves.

I don't buy it, though. Love and #8 are a decent haul for Kawhi (look what we got for Irving), but San Antonio doesn't need Love. Aldridge is their only decent player, and Love doesn't fit next to him because both are old, slow PFs. Maybe they flip Love for McCollum, Bradley Beal, or someone similar?
 
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Cleveland to pick up Kendrick Perkins' option for 2018-19

Kendrick Perkins, who was signed on the final day of the regular season but did not play a single minute in the 2018 postseason, will have his contract option for 2018-19 picked up by the Cavaliers, multiple league sources told ESPN.

As much as the Cavs appreciate Perkins as a locker room presence, the decision is simply a salary-cap ploy in order to try to aggregate the 33-year-old center's $2.5 million salary along with an existing contract in order to pursue a trade around the league.
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By picking up the option, Perkins' contract is non-guaranteed for the time being. The Cavs would have to guarantee the contract in order to include it in a potential trade.

The move is akin to how Cleveland's front office invoked the so-called "Brendan Haywood Rule" in the new collective bargaining agreement; the Cavs added the aging big man in the summer of 2014 on an escalating deal that included $10.5 million in non-guaranteed salary in Haywood's second season so they could use him as a trade chip in pursuit of bigger fish on the market.

The league has since deemed that only the guaranteed portion of contracts signed under the new CBA will count when they are included in deals in order to meet the salary-match requirements to make the deal equitable.

Entire article: http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/23929818/cleveland-cavaliers-pick-kendrick-perkins-option-2018-19
 
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Good job, Cavs. This organization is so dumb. Literally laid the blueprint for this to happen.

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That pretty much sums it up for me.

I hope that LeBron really loves playing in Los Angeles, because this is really a dumb move for several reasons.

First, the Lakers will be a borderline playoff team even with LeBron. As currently constituted, they have no chance of getting past Golden State and Houston, or maybe even OKC and New Orleans.

Second, LeBron will eventually get old, and it might happen overnight. Remember Tiger Woods? He won the 2008 US Open at age 32, then blew out his back. In the ten years since, he has 14 tour wins and no majors. He's been pretty much a joke for a decade. LeBron is now 33 years old with 15 NBA seasons under his belt - that's 1,482 games and 54,347 minutes, including playoffs. LeBron keeps his body in great shape and he has largely avoided injury, but Father Time is still undefeated....

Third, he left over $50 million on the table by not taking the Supermax contract that Cleveland had to offer. I don't care how rich he is, $50 million is a lot of money to piss away.

Fourth, his legacy is screwed. Unless he somehow leads a ragtag Laker team to a championship, he will be lucky to be counted as a top-5 all-time Laker. He will almost certainly end up behind Magic, Kareem, Kobe, Shaq, and Jerry West, and maybe even Wilt (5 seasons, 1 title in LA) and Elgin Baylor. He'll always have his Cleveland title, but that will be countered by four finals losses (two sweeps, one near sweep) and the fact that Kyrie Irving hit the game winning shot in game seven of the 2016 series. And in Miami, he was always Robin to Dwyane Wade's Batman.

Fifth, Lavar Ball. 'Nuff said.

Sixth. I'm coming home? Not to northeast Ohio. Not anymore. Thanks for the title, now leave us alone.
 
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Hopefully whatever LeBron does in LA gets him rich enough to come back and buy the Cavs from Dan Gilbert.
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Jordan couldn't be a good owner, GM, etc. Magic so far has proved he couldn't either.

I think the most naturally gifted athletes struggle at day to day jobs and scouting/coaching the majority of players who are not anywhere near them. It's like having the most gifted mathematician and asking him to teach geometry....he'll probably struggle greatly to translate the information in layman's terms.
 
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