LeBron James and the Euroleague

Admittedly, I was shocked when I heard that Josh Childress had accepted Olympiakos’s $32.5 million contract offer. Certainly it is not unheard of for NBA players to hop the pond to play in Europe, but for the most part these are role players or perhaps others on the tail ends of their careers. Though certainly not a star player by any means, Childress was certainly a solid NBA player and one of the premier sixth men in the league. At the very least, he was a player that the casual NBA fan probably had actually heard of before. While Childress’s decision, in and of itself, does not necessarily or even probably portend a massive exodus to the NBA’s salary cap-less European counterpart, it did demonstrate that this possibility in a relatively high-profile manner. What will likely be more important than Childress simply signing with Olympiakos will be his actual experience there. Recently, LeBron James admitted that he would consider a European offer of “$50 million a year ... (link)