Lin to Lakers.

Unbelievable.

Anyone watching chris?

Return of the Kang.Kang James is back. Spurs bust up Miami.

Bosh has since signed max deal with the Heat!

Thought Bosh would certainly go to Houston as they got rid of Lins massive contract and obviously with Lebron leaving the Heat. Very very strange rationale by Bosh.

Love wants to go to the Cavs so bad but Minny don't want anything less than Wiggins. And its right that CLE don't want to give him up. Minny aren't in the strongest position and someone probably needs to tell them to scale back their demands otherwise Love will just walk at seasons end and theyl have nothing.

Do Houston go ahead and match Dallas' offer for Parsons now that they won't get Bosh or do they take aim at a second tier FA like Deng, Monroe etc

extra $30 Million i'm guessing

It's all made out as though LeBron has written his personal letter, but is there anything to read in the Cavs names he mentioned? Irving, Waiters, Varejao. From memory, he didn't mention Wiggins or Bennett. Has he been told these guys are trade bait?

Wow! the rumours were true on this one, difficult to leave MIA weather for CLE, i would also imagine it would've been difficult to tell Pat Riley

anyone have rumoured contract details of Lebrons CLE contract? yrs? money?

hopefully Delly is re-signed with Cavs!

If anyone hasn't read it yet, his statement. Much more mature than "The Decision"

http://www.si.com/nba/2014/07/11/lebron-james-cleveland-cavaliers

Now the Cavaliers need to get Greg Oden and they can have a No1 pick starting lineup.
C Oden
F Bennett
F LeBron
G Wiggins
G Irving. Nba first

As it stands, there are currently 4 x #1 draft picks on the Cavs roster. James, Irving, Bennett and Wiggins.

Edit: beat me to the punch!

According to ESPN "Cavs have opened trade talks for Kevin Love by offering Dion Waiters, Anthony Bennett & 1st-round pick to T-Wolves."
i'd include Karasev in that trade as well

The Timberwolves are playing hard-ball: Love won't likely be traded to Cleveland unless they receive Wiggins in return.

http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/11203427/kevin-love-intrigued-commit-cleveland-cavaliers

You do not trade Wiggins. Cavs need to work in a deal with another team to make the Love deal happen.

Delly and Wiggins were good today in the Vegas game against the Bucks, Wiggins has a killer stepback. Going to be way more interesting watching Delly and the bucks this year thats for sure! And yes the Lebron Statement was very well written, they also had a quick interview with Gilbert talking about the sitdown he had with Lebron, seems they have both grown up a bit ;)

does this mean ennis starting for heat?

wiggins at sg??? u have got to be kidding me!

for me irving , wiggins and lebron would be great running the floor. you certainly wouldnt want them to get open space against you.

i think bennett is the guy who i think will be expendable at the cavs. i imagine cavs will run a bit of small ball with a centre and lebron , wiggins etc for some gametime. i dont see how 6'8 bennett fits in with this team that wouldnt be better served by a stretch four like love.

Shooting isn't everything.

Delly had a good game rebounds and assists wise.

I'm not fooled by Lebron's letter or his return to the Cavs. A return to a team he burned that now has a lot of potential current & future talent. A return that also helps rebuild his reputation and increases his chances of more rings than an ageing Heat roster thus improving his legacy. He's still a ring chaser - it's just better disguised this time.

LeBron and Dan Gilbert have orchestrated this beautifully. The Cavs would never truely bottom out with LeBron on the roster so they concocted a master plan.

"LeBron you bail out for a while and get yourself a championship or two, the Cavs will suck badly for a few years and subsequently pick up a handful of top picks and then you come back to a team that with you will be a serious contender"

"that's brilliant Dan, but you gotta act like a whinny lil bitch and write an over the top letter about how much you hate me. Let's do this and we'll talk again when I opt out of my next contract"

I know, I'm being a mad conspiracy theorist right. But sometimes it can be fun just wondering "what if".

Yeah i think Lebron knew he was going to the Cavs a while ago if he didnt win the title this year.

Think the Big Z jersey retirement ceremony was perhaps the moment or a clear signal of his future plans.

Anthony Bennett and David Blatt are part of the conspiracy theory?

Smart move by LeBron. And done with good grace this time. I didn't like 'The Decision' before but young guys make mistakes and he's clearly learnt from that, so good luck to him.

I'm hoping Love doesn't go to the Cavs, but I think they are in the box seat. I can't see Boston or Golden State trumping an offer of Waiters, Thompson, Bennett and a draft pick or two.

I think Minnesota will eventually blink and accept they aren't getting Wiggins. If they got the package above, they would be in pretty good shape, especially if Bennett and Waiters can realise their potential.

Pekovic G. Deng
Thompson Bennett
Budinger Brewer
Martin Waiters Lavine
Rubio Shved

I dont reckon Cavs desperately need Love,

Thompson and Bennett can hold down PF solidly enough imo and LeBron will likely play a fair bit there aswell.

I hope the Cavs dont trade Wiggins for anyone,except Durant (which wont happen) as if Wiggins is worth half his hype, which i reckon he will be, he will be better than Love in a few years.

To anon above, the Cavs can easily accommodate Love in a trade. He is on nearly $16mill this season, so they just need to trade about that much back to Minnesota. Once they have Love on their roster, they will have his Bird Rights and can go over the cap to sign him to an extension.

If you look at Cleveland's salaries, the only way they can really make it work is to trade Waiters, Thompson and Bennett, which comes to just over $16mill. At the very least two of those three would have to be in the deal. If Minny capitulates then maybe Cleveland manages to hang on to Thompson.

Jonno, if they stick with Thompson and Bennett instead of Love, they aren't winning anything next season. If they sign Love, they are only a couple of good role-players away from contending again.

I think they would be fools not to trade for Love just because they wanted to hang on to one of Thompson (solid but limited player) or Bennett (talented offensively but terrible attitude on D).

Yea, i do agree, and hope they can get Love without trading Wiggins,

Im perfectly fine with trading Waiters, Thompson, Bennett + future picks for Love, just not sure T-wolves accept, but are there many other better deals out there???

My point was i dont think they are that desperate to get Love they need to cave and put Wiggins in the deal.

If Thompson and Bennett are not enough, assuming they get Mike Miller and Ray Allen

They could Play LeBron plenty of minutes at PF.

Could go something like this

Varejao/Haywood
James/Thompson/Bennett
Wiggin/Miller
Waiters/Allen
Irving/Dellavedova

Thats still pretty nice as a sort of worse case scenario imo.

May not win the Title, but even LeBron said he doesnt think they will win next season so a little patience will be had if need be.

Just dont give up on a guy who has been hyped as a future star before he has played a game in Wiggins, at worse he is an atheltic, versatile defender who can score 15 pts a game, at best he is a superstar and better than Love.