nba.fanhouse.com - 8/4/2008
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A sensational SI.com report hit the web Friday -- Olympiakos, the team that yanked Josh Childress from the NBA with a hypercompetitive contract, is considering making LeBron James a $40 million per year contract offer in 2010. There are layers and layers of ifs and maybes, but the mere thought has Cavalier fans exhausted from the impending two years of speculation. This would be an absolute ...
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Why Would LeBron Want to Leave for Europe?
The Sporting Blog —
... . No, really. There's no salary cap. He will instantly become the ruler of the continent, not just the hottest property in a shoddy league. Or what about, as Ziller suggests, Carmelo Anthony? He's undervalued, maybe justifiably so, in the Association, and an absolute monster in international play. ...
Bostjan Nachbar Thinks Jason Kidd Might Join Him in Europe
FanHouse —
Filed under: Lakers, Mavericks, Euroleague, NBA RumorsForget LeBron James to Greece, today's hot rumor is Kobe Bryant to Russia! Asked if, like many of his fellow NBA stars, he would consider moving to Europe to play, Bryant answered very straight-forwardly. "Of course. By the way, are you the owner of a Russian team? It can be arranged for $40 million per year." Okay, straight forward or not, Bryant was almost certainly having some fun with Sport Express Daily, the Russian pub that reported ...
Report: LeBron James Would Consider Playing in Europe for $50 Million a Year
FanHouse —
Filed under: Cavaliers, Eastern, Euroleague, NBA RumorsThe "LeBron James could go to Europe" meme is picking up steam. ESPN's Chris Broussard reports that a person close to LeBron has indicated that LeBron would strongly consider getting his passport stamped if he's offered a salary "around $50 million a year" when he becomes a free agent the summer of 2010. And from the sounds of it, at least two Euro teams are chomping at the bit to get in line: The Russian team CSKA Moscow and the Greek team Olympiacos, which ...
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The Fundamentals —
BallerBlogger.com
Dave D’Alessandro of The Star-Ledger : “Indeed, the NBA isn’t exactly hemorrhaging talent. Among the seven who took the leap, Childress, a career reserve in Atlanta who averaged 12 points last year, was perhaps the most accomplished. He received a surprisingly lucrative contract from Olympiacos in Greece that will pay him 13 million euros over three years, the equivalent of ...
Yes….. Lebron’s desire to leave has gone global. —
Cavs Board
As you might have guessed by looking at the header of this site, I’m fairly worn out discussing articles about Lebron’s departure rooted almost entirely in the imagination of the writer. Well, Ian Thomsen of Sports Illustrated insured himself of a linkback from me today with his article entitled “Greek team may make serious run at [...]
The King of Greece??? —
SidelineShow.com-SportsTalk Radio
First it was Josh Childress leaving the NBA to play for a foreign country, but now rumors are starting that Lebron James could be going too!?!? Well, he will be a free agent in 2010 and with the money that these foreign leagues are throwing out it might not be a bad move for the [...]
Forget New York. What About Europe? —
WaitingForNextYear
If we thought that the NBA/European basketball salary cap issues were bad with Delonte West, you may want to sit down for this one.
Reported by Ian Thompson at SI.com:
Olympiakos is considering a run at LeBron James when he becomes a free agent in 2010. [...]
At the most expensive levels of European basketball, the club owners [...] ShareThis
Halftime thoughts on Team USA vs Turkey —
Ball in Europe - European Basketball Blog
9am here in the States, while Team USA is playing Turkey as a preparation for the Olympics. Here are some random thoughts during the first half:
LeBron James is a fan of tight jerseys - I mean really tight
first quarter 31-30 - meaning no defense of any team, which Team USA will not see at at the Olympics, when playing teams such as Greece
As the ESPN2 moderators tell us, the FIBA ...
What Team USA Needs to do to Win —
Bleacher Report - NBA
1 DEFENSE, DEFENSE, DEFENSE
It's good to know that the U.S. players are stressing it on Day 1 of this week's camp because they need to be focused on the defensive end of the floor from start to finish. Specifically, they need to defend the ...
