LeBron James will play the ‘wait & see’ game for yet another off-season. James was playing the ‘wait & see’ game with the Heat and decided to move forward and go to the Cavaliers last summer. Now the Cavaliers are in a very good position, coming off a 6 game Finals loss to the superior Golden State Warriors. They gave out a good fight, but injuries really dismantled the team that should have put up a better fight.
Now he is doing the same thing to the Cleveland Cavaliers. Threatening the very existence of ‘hope’ for the Cavaliers to win an NBA title, if LeBron leaves. It’s doubtful he’ll end up leaving after his open letter to the Cavaliers organization. Now this tactic is merely used to put pressure on the Cavaliers, so they don’t screw up LeBron’s team. Yes, LeBron’s team.
According to Chris Haynes of Cleveland.com:
The contract situations of Kevin Love, Tristan Thompson, J.R. Smith, Iman Shumpert and to a certain degree Brendan Haywood are expected to be resolved before the Cleveland Cavaliers’ re-sign the world’s most dominant player.
James will take a wait-and-see approach while the Cavaliers tend to their housekeeping matters, league sources informed Northeast Ohio Media Group.
He’ll be the last domino to fall, if all goes as planned, league sources with knowledge of the situation presume.
The Cavaliers will most likely end up re-signing Tristan Thompson and J.R Smith and Iman Shumpert. They will either let Brendan Haywood walk or re-sign him for a very insignificant amount, and then it will fall to the decisions of Kevin Love and LeBron James. Love will have suitors varying from Boston to Phoenix to Los Angeles to New York, everyone essentially wants Love. If love decides to move on from the Cavaliers, they have more players that are willing to fill in the role of Love for the Cavaliers. LaMarcus Aldridge is one of those players. So once the power forward spot is secure for the Cavaliers whether it be Love or Aldridge, it is up to LeBron to come back or not. He will, he has to, or else his entire legacy in on the line. Looks like we won’t be seeing LeBron going anywhere, ever.
