July 8, 200618 yr I have no concept of basketball players' salaries - is $80MM over 5 years about what he could command on the open market?
July 8, 200618 yr ^It is the maximum contract allowed by the league's collective bargaining agreement.
July 9, 200618 yr I'm glad LeBron signed and ended the speculation. As much as ESPN and the rest of the media wanted/predicted James to leave, they were wrong.
July 9, 200618 yr ^ bah, the national coverage is a hoax, espn is a local ny region channel. ignore them, totally biased and unbalanced. :whip: LeBron says yes Sunday, July 09, 2006 Branson Wright Plain Dealer Reporter OK, Cavaliers fans. You can relax now. LeBron James says he is staying put. James, silent since the Cavaliers offered him a contract extension on July 1, on Saturday delivered the news that fans in Northeast Ohio have been waiting to hear. More at www.cleveland.com
July 10, 200618 yr LeBron to me is the most entertaining sports figure in Cleveland as long as I've followed sports. He just makes an ass out of most of the "experts". Wizards in 6, Detroit in 5, Carmelo can make clutch shots, LeBron can't, etc. I'll give credit where credit is due, Stein on ESPN called this (who is no Cleveland pumper, BTW) and is gloating over the other bozos (basically the entire ESPN staff) who thought he'd want to start over with a team like the Knicks or Lakers just for more endorsement money. I never worried about his contract extention. LeBron has no intention of leaving until he gets Cleveland a championship and he will. It'll be a bigger story than anything he can create in NY or LA.
July 10, 200618 yr ^ bah, the national coverage is a hoax, espn is a local ny region channel. ignore them, totally biased and unbalanced. :whip: I totally agree, but at least you Clevelanders dont have to put up with total negative press about your city whenever a story is done on one of your teams. They have something against Cincinnati: Only time they report on the Bearcats is when something goes wrong......in their latest NFL playoff predictions they had the Bengals rated like 8th overall in the NFL, but said they wouldnt make the playoffs and many of them said that the Bengals wouldnt win 9 games....they chose not to talk about the Reds suprising start this year until the streak was esstially over. I watch ESPN, but I choose to block out their analysis...it sucks!
July 11, 200618 yr good news followed by a crushing letdown? oh how cleveland. now it looks like lebron is going for three years with a fourth option year of his choice. that's putting the cavs on notice that he expects major efforts and championships or buh-bye in the fourth year. ya cant blame him, seven total years at minimum is cutting the cavs plenty of slack. the other rumor is that his buddy jay-z, a star power 5% owner of the nets, wants bron to become a net and help christen the new ratner atlantic yards arena when the nets move to brooklyn. bluh.
July 11, 200618 yr the other rumor is that his buddy jay-z, a star power 5% owner of the nets, wants bron to become a net and help christen the new ratner atlantic yards arena when the nets move to brooklyn. bluh. I Got 99 Problems, but LeBron Ain't One? Or a different Jay-Z?
July 11, 200618 yr good news followed by a crushing letdown? oh how cleveland. now it looks like lebron is going for three years with a fourth option year of his choice. that's putting the cavs on notice that he expects major efforts and championships or buh-bye in the fourth year. ya cant blame him, seven total years at minimum is cutting the cavs plenty of slack. the other rumor is that his buddy jay-z, a star power 5% owner of the nets, wants bron to become a net and help christen the new ratner atlantic yards arena when the nets move to brooklyn. bluh. Stop looking at the glass as half empty. Man, look at it this way. Cavs lose the finals next year, win the finals in '08 and '09...he hangs around for his option year does the three-peat..then moves on for endorsement money. With what I saw with the Cavs last year...anything is possible. Hughes and Z actually play to their potential...and they would've been in the EC finals. That's ridiculous for a team that won 17 of 82 in 02-03. Not like they should be ashamed of what happened last season. That was a great run. As for his move to NY, I think we are on year four of the media speculation on when LeBron will move east. It's funny how it's moved away from the Knicks to the Nets. The only way his deal would have been a 'crushing letdown' to me is if that deal would have been with another team.
July 12, 200618 yr mrnyc, or you could look at is: lebron is doing the three year dealie so he can resign for an even larger contract then. The man could simply just be greedy.
July 12, 200618 yr Cavaliers announce deal with James All-Star to sign 3-year contract Wednesday, July 12, 2006 Branson Wright Plain Dealer Reporter LeBron James agreed shortly after midnight this morning to a three-year contract extension with the Cavaliers for about $60 million with a player option for a fourth year. Today is the first day players can sign contracts. The deal means James turned down the Cavs' offer of a maximum extension of five years and about $80 million. The contract he will sign will allow him to leave after the 2009-10 season and become an unrestricted free agent. More at www.cleveland.com
July 16, 200618 yr ah not so good when your own hometown paper is playing the speculation game :| AROUND THE NBA More than theory could put LeBron in New York Sunday, July 16, 2006 Branson Wright Plain Dealer Reporter Just a thought, but are the shorter-term contract extensions signed by LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh all part of a master plan that will eventually land all three players in New York? James, Wade and Bosh each agreed to three-year extensions with an option for the fourth year with their respective teams last week. They all could have signed a maximum of five years for $80 million, but they chose the shorter route. In four years, all of those awful mega contracts are off the Knicks' books which means there will be room to sign free agents like James, Wade and Bosh. More at www.cleveland.com
July 17, 200618 yr ^^ Time will tell. But if the Nets become a 18 win team by just holding out on hopes and expanding their cap room on a Wade and LeBron move to Brooklyn, Jay-Z may be disappointed. They'll need to be competitve even if this is true. The Knicks shot themselves in the foot by being a bottom feeder the last 4 years. It's NY media trying to scare the other markets. I don't take much stock in it.
July 17, 200618 yr i don't put too much stock in it myself at this point. however, i am taking more stock in the endorsement contract debate, which many poopoo'd. i keep reading that despite the wishful thinking of some he does indeed get more endorsement contract loot if he plays in a bigger market. i'm not sure that matters to lebron so much either of course. just like with tim duncan, bottom line is a winning team will quiet all this talk.
July 27, 200618 yr Saw this on ESPN - but from the Akron Beacon Journal The article has a picture of his birth certificate. Interesting that there is no name in the father part. http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?page=LeBronAge&lpos=spotlight&lid Signed, sealed and delivered, LeBron is 21 By Brian Windhorst Special to ESPN.com
August 3, 200618 yr Did you see the Cavs fired Michael Reghi? I think that's really crappy. These are the things that make me hate sports. He seemed like a decent guy! What's wrong with Michael?!
August 3, 200618 yr I thought that he had really improved this year. This surprises and saddens me a bit.
August 3, 200618 yr I really liked him in tandem with Scott(ie) Williams and Austin Carr! They were pretty funny and his commentary definitely kept things on point. Bummer!
August 3, 200618 yr The rumor is that Gilbert is going to bring in the TV commentator from Detroit because he didn't like that Reghi was honest in his analysis. This guy from Detroit is apparently the uber-homer and never has a critical thing to say about the home team. :x
August 3, 200618 yr The rumor is that Gilbert is going to bring in the TV commentator from Detroit because he didn't like that Reghi was honest in his analysis. This guy from Detroit is apparently the uber-homer and never has a critical thing to say about the home team. :x are you speaking of george blaha? I don't imagine him ever leaving...... and speaking of uber homers, look no further than austin "heh, heh, heh, lebron needs to throw it down now, heh, heh, heh," carr. I'm trying hard to capture how annoying his laugh and commentary are.
August 3, 200618 yr "mmmhhh...I need some of that diGiorno pizza! Got one in my oven right now!" No you don't, AC! You're courtside at the Q! Quit lyin! That's what I liked about AC and Reghi...AC seemed drunk or just airheaded half the time, but Reghi would always pull it back to the game. Oh, and AC does the BEST postgame interviews. You can just tell he wants to hug everyone, give 'em all pats on their bottoms, and has a hard time containing himself!
August 3, 200618 yr cough, cough...joe tait. http://www.nba.com/cavaliers/multimedia/Joe_Taits_Greatest_Calls-59408-44.html "and have a GOOD niiiiite evvv-ribody"
August 3, 200618 yr I never liked Reghi until this year. I wish that they weren't getting rid of him. The new guy is a Strongsville native who did Cavs broadcasts in 1980. Maybe his heart is still with the team?? I like Tait as well.
August 3, 200618 yr i like tait because the guy is clearly an alcoholic. I love when he mentions he needs some of "grandma jean's magic elixir"
August 3, 200618 yr I love Marty Brennaman, I love Tom Hamilton, I loved Nev Chandler, and I've always liked Jim Donavan, but I've never heard anyone nearly as good, in any sport, as Joe Tait. Len Barker's perfect game? Flawless...
August 3, 200618 yr I could do without Matt Underwood and his "how do you like them apples" or "good bye baseball". Hamilton is the best. I wish that he didn't take off so many innings.
August 3, 200618 yr cough, cough...joe tait. http://www.nba.com/cavaliers/multimedia/Joe_Taits_Greatest_Calls-59408-44.html "and have a GOOD niiiiite evvv-ribody" Great link...#10, about 20 seconds in: "Ehlo, lookin', lookin', fires to Dougherty, back to Ehlo, the three [buzzer] in the aaairrrIT'S GOOD!!! HE WON IT!!! EHLO HIT A THREE POINTER ON THE SIDELINE AT, THE BUZZER! Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus, and he comes from Lubbock, Texas!"
August 3, 200618 yr I love Marty Brennaman, I love Tom Hamilton, I loved Nev Chandler, and I've always liked Jim Donavan, but I've never heard anyone nearly as good, in any sport, as Joe Tait. Len Barker's perfect game? Flawless... i was really into the tribe then and listened to that len barker perfect game start to finish on the radio. it was not on tv, but they cut into tv by the last inning with a crawl on the screen. check this out, i went to len barker's next start after that game. there were only a few handful thousand of us fans there as usual in those days. i remember i walked down and sat behind home plate for awhile and the guys with the radar gun let me time lenny. he was throwing 100mph. to play with that radar gun and to time len barker after that big game? what a thrill for a kid that was. try to do something all relaxed and folksy like that today -- ya can't!
August 4, 200618 yr It was on TV from at least the 5th on, because I watched it at a friend's house...unless I, like the 398,000 people who were actually at the game, have an imperfect memory... Yeah, Tait is king.
August 4, 200618 yr ^the entire game was on tv. I remember the day completely. I went to Landmart (the dime store in west park), got a Dan Spillner baseball card. Went to my uncle's new house up the street. Wondering the game would be played that night becase it was raining on and off during the day. In the end, my two sisters and I sat in the basement and watched the game. trivia: which Indian hit an home run during the game? to which part of the park? who caught the game?
August 4, 200618 yr Lebron's on TV tonight...US v. Puerto Rico...exhibition game for the World Championship!
August 4, 200618 yr Well put, Mr. Livingston! Reghi kicked aside in classless manner Friday, August 04, 2006 Bill Livingston Plain Dealer Columnist For many of his 13 years as the Cavaliers' TV voice, Mi chael Reghi was as professional a guy as the ramshackle franchise had. That's what makes his firing so stunning. Reghi spent a lot of years trying to make some horrible teams palatable to the Cleveland audience. It was classless for the Cavs to have fired him this week, late in the off-season when the basketball jobs are drying up. More at www.cleveland.com
August 4, 200618 yr It was on TV from at least the 5th on, because I watched it at a friend's house...unless I, like the 398,000 people who were actually at the game, have an imperfect memory... Yeah, Tait is king. lol! i dont think that game was televised. it's been such a long time, i could be wrong. i just know i listened to it on the radio. what a shame about reghi, tait is king but i like him too.
August 4, 200618 yr lol! i dont think that game was televised. it's been such a long time, i could be wrong. i just know i listened to it on the radio. I watched it on tv. If I were going to lie, then I would have said that I went to the game!
August 7, 200618 yr I'm not shedding any tears over this one. Cavs fire announcer Duncan The Cavs today fired Ronnie Duncan as their home public-address announcer, ending his colorful and controversial stint as team PA man after one season. Duncan’s work as Cavs PA announcer last season drew passionate reaction — good and bad — from local fans and media. Supporters liked Duncan’s energetic style and clever nicknames for Cavs players. But Duncan’s detractors complained that his high-volume approach was distracting and annoying, and that he made too many mistakes. More at www.cleveland.com
August 7, 200618 yr well, I think these are the moves that will ensure us a spot in the NBA Finals next year. Reghi and Duncan were definitely the weakest spots in the lineup. These are certainly more pressing issues than re-signing Drew Gooden or letting Flip Murray sign with Detroit!
August 7, 200618 yr ^good points. We can't overlook the little details that make us a first-class operation.
August 8, 200618 yr yay! yaaay! ok now we can send that moron ronnie duncan back to columbus. oh wait, he had wore out his welcome there too.
August 12, 200618 yr I thought that name looked familiar. He can work in New Orleans (he wouldn't last an entire sportscast in Baton Rouge)
August 14, 200618 yr Gooden agrees to three-year deal with with Cavs More at www.ESPN.com Scratch one more name off the NBA's ever-shrinking list of quality free agents: Drew Gooden.
August 18, 200618 yr I doubt this move will have much effect on the 2006-7 Cavs. Mabye Pollard could hack shaq and absorb some of the fouls that Z would normally give up. Cavs sign Pollard, trade for Basden The Cavaliers agreed to terms with free-agent Scot Pollard on a one-year contract today. They also traded center Martynas Andriuskevicius to the Chicago Bulls for guard Eddie Basden. More at www.cleveland.com
August 18, 200618 yr why sign pollard when you already have verajo? (i.e. hard working, bad shooting forwards)
August 21, 200618 yr why sign pollard when you already have verajo? (i.e. hard working, bad shooting forwards) Different players, all together. Pollard is strickly a grunt/muscle man underneath doing all the dirty work; no glamour. (think an updated Curt Rambis)... Varejao, however, can spark an offense with the deadly pick 'n roll he and LeBron were executing against Detroit; Andy really picked up his O game and his friendship and playing with LeBron really helped break through Andy's language barrier (which, I understand, Andy's worked hard to improve since his season #1). Andy's much more mobile and potentially dangerous than Pollard, although I love the depth and strength Scot gives to the Cavs. I think signing him was a great move... The Cavs look really complete right now with, possibly, the only major weakness being at point guard ... and of course, LeBron often plays that role esp in crunch time.
August 22, 200618 yr The Cavs look really complete right now with, possibly, the only major weakness being at point guard ... and of course, LeBron often plays that role esp in crunch time. i'm calling it now, enjoy your fourth seed.
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