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LeBron James confirms 'The Decision' will be Thursday on ESPN

AKRON, Ohio -- LeBron James made an announcement. No, not the announcement. An announcement about the annoucement. And he did it in his favorite new way, directly to his fans via the Internet and social media.

In a message on his freshly re-launched website, dormant for several years, James confirmed that he was planning on announcing his free agent decision in a one-hour special Thursday night on ESPN. To direct fans to the website, James used his new Twitter account, which has signed up more than 200,000 members in 24 hours.

"The Decision" as James' site calls it, is being made live because of the "unprecedented attention."

The location of the announcement was not revealed but it is believed that it will be made from a neutral site and not in any of the cities that have been courting him.

According to multiple sources those teams were in the dark about James' plans when ESPN made their announcement on Tuesday night.

The program will have sponsors and the proceeds will go to the Boys and Girls Club of America, the statement said. James has supported that charity in the past during events over various All-Star Weekends.

http://www.cleveland.com/cavs/index.ssf ... pdate.html

Mi sa che questo topic morirà venerdì.

Magari va a finire come la previsione 'Raptors davanti ai Cavs' di inizio anno...
Comunque anche io credo che LeBron non scelga Cleveland altrimenti non avrebbe accettato di fare sta pagliacciata della ESPN per una 'semplice' rifirma. E se davvero crede che altrove abbia maggiori possibilità di vittoria allora sinceramente non mi va di condannarlo...
Manca poco, e tutte le voci saranno finalmente zittite. Io non sono molto ottimista, dico NY. Ma gli auguro di fare una scelta più sensata.

Premetto che non voglio tirarvela pero... :lol2:
A me pare che anche Windhorst ormai non ci creda più..ha gia dichiarato che continuerà a seguire i Cavs anche senza LBJ pero ieri una sua twitterata mi ha fatto veramente raggelare il sangue
Chiudeva con una roba del tipo "Questo Lebron non è quello che io conosco"

E questo lo conosce da quando faceva ancora pio pio (cit),da quando era all'high school...

Chris Paul wrote: Premetto che non voglio tirarvela pero... :lol2:
A me pare che anche Windhorst ormai non ci creda più..ha gia dichiarato che continuerà a seguire i Cavs anche senza LBJ pero ieri una sua twitterata mi ha fatto veramente raggelare il sangue
Chiudeva con una roba del tipo "Questo Lebron non è quello che io conosco"

E questo lo conosce da quando faceva ancora pio pio (cit),da quando era all'high school...

Il buon Windhorst è un pò un pessimista di natura, ma anche io ho la senzazione che LBJ farà la scelta sbagliata sia per lui sia per noi.

The Prince Of Punk #90 wrote: Mi sa che questo topic morirà venerdì.

esagerato.

I cleveland cavaliers sono una franchigia storica.
C'erano prima di LBJ e ci saranno dopo di lui.

Cavaliers In Trade Talks For Flynn

The Cavaliers are in trade talks Minnesota for Jonny Flynn, according to sources.

Flynn is represented by the same agent as LeBron and LRMR.


Read more: http://www.realgm.com/src_wiretap_archi ... z0t72vDAR2

TheChosenOne wrote: Cavaliers In Trade Talks For Flynn

The Cavaliers are in trade talks Minnesota for Jonny Flynn, according to sources.

Flynn is represented by the same agent as LeBron and LRMR.


Read more: http://www.realgm.com/src_wiretap_archi ... z0t72vDAR2

Questo l' articolo completo:


CLEVELAND, Ohio -- With the speculation that LeBron James is leaving for Miami, the Cavaliers have not stopped trying to improve the team.

According to multiple league sources, the Cavs are in trade talks with the Minnesota Timberwolves involving point guard Jonny Flynn. This might hold extra intrigue because Flynn is represented not only by the same agent as James, Leon Rose, but also James' marketing firm, LRMR.

It is possible that trying to trade for Flynn is an appeal to James before he announces his final decision at 9 p.m. on ESPN tonight. In recent days the team has made a strong and wide-ranging push to trade for James' friend and New Orleans Hornets star guard Chris Paul, but have been rebuffed, league executives said.

League sources have confirmed overnight reports that James has told people he intends to sign with the Heat and join Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh.

However, sources said, none of the teams hoping to sign James have been told he's made a decision.

Since hiring Byron Scott last week, the Cavs have been looking at trades that would bring in guards that can help them play a more uptempo style that Scott prefers. Flynn is a quicker ball pusher that would fit that role.

The No. 6 overall pick in the 2009 NBA Draft, Flynn averaged 13.5 points and 4.4 assists during what was an inconsistent rookie season. He has been a controversial player in Minnesota because the Wolves drafted European star point guard Ricky Rubio in the same draft.

The Cavs have been in talks to acquire other quick guards. In addition to Paul and Flynn, the team has been in talks with the Phoenix Suns about speedy combo guard Leandro Barbosa


Pare si sia  provato anche a spingere per CP3, ma senza risultati.

Flynn(gocatore che mi piace) rispetto a MO( ) è un giocatore più adatto al tipo di gioco che vuole fare Scott, anche se il nostro numero 2 rimane ad oggi un giocatore superiore. Certo se insieme all' ex Syracuse arrivasse anche Big AL...

Tristezza ingiustificata per i tifosi dei Cavs.
Con James non hanno vinto nulla, chi lo dice che una rifondazione non sia benefica?

oh ma Big Z non lo rifirmiamo?

Frizzi wrote: oh ma Big Z non lo rifirmiamo?

Se deciderà di continuare a giocare(sembrava cosi dopo il "ritorno") deve essere rifirmato. Big Z

Bell' articolo sulla situazione LBJ:

I'm not buying the rumors: LeBron will ultimately decide to stay home

I read the anonymous reports that LeBron James will sign with the Miami Heat and I don't believe them.

Until he says otherwise himself Thursday night, I will continue to believe this entire process will steer him back home to the Cleveland Cavaliers.

I've been hearing all year long is that James alone will make this decision. He will listen to advice, he will take account of the different offers and opinions, and in the end he will make his own choice. This is what I've been told for a long time and it was spelled out most eloquently in a recent column by the Cleveland Plain Dealer's Brian Windhorst, who is plugged into James' camp.

So when I read of unnamed sources saying that James is going to Miami, I wonder: Do they absolutely 100 percent know what he is going to say Thursday night?

I also cannot understand why James' camp would arrange for this drum-roll proclamation on national television and then leak out word of the final result before the boss -- James himself -- can make his announcement. That makes no sense whatsoever. Do all of these reality TV shows -- Survivor or Big Brother -- want you to know who is going to be the winner before you watch the season-ending broadcast?

The rule of reality TV is to advertise a surprising "twist" without letting viewers know what it may be. If people who really do know what James is thinking have been spreading word that he'll sign with Miami, then I view that as another way of creating suspense and surprise for the actual announcement to have maximum impact.

If we all believe he's going to Miami, and he goes on TV to say he's going to Miami, then what was the point of the live TV show? If his own camp is leaking out the final result then there is ultimately going to be little drama to "The Decision," as the ESPN show has been titled.

Here is the third reason to wonder if we're all being played. Going back to November, on the morning of James' only game this season at Madison Square Garden, I believe I was the first to firmly predict that this entire process was set up for him to return to Cleveland. This is what I wrote Nov. 6:

I bet James already has the entire recruiting process planned out. He'll listen to the Knicks, the Nets and anyone else who wishes to speak with him. Then he'll hold a news conference on live TV and announce that he is staying with Cleveland. It will be the professional version of national signing day, when the top high school recruit announces the college of his choice.

But it will be much bigger than that. An entire city will rejoice, and its people will speak of how proud they are of their LeBron James. Casual fans who would have booed him for going to New York will now be cheering for him because he stayed in Cleveland. By showing loyalty to his hometown, he'll have a chance to become a bigger force than he could have been on the world's greatest stage. He'll be the NBA's Family Guy.

So now, as forecast here eight months ago, he is making the announcement on live TV. So far it has played out the way I thought it would. Is he really going to use this setting to say he's moving to Miami or Chicago? (And don't believe the last-minute Knicks talk -- New York has no chance.) If James uses the vehicle of a celebratory one-hour TV special to declare that he's abandoning the people of Akron and the fans of the Cavaliers, then he'll never be able to go back home again.

The Akron/Cleveland area is the only place he has ever lived. It is everything he knows. I truly believe -- as do people who know him, the same people who are saying Thursday they still don't know his decision -- that if he was going to move to Miami or Chicago, then he would have arranged the least painful exit so as not to destroy his reputation at home.

Instead, if he goes on live TV tonight to say he's walking out on the only place he's known, then he has done so in the most painful way imaginable. He has tortured millions of people who for months have had faith that he would stay -- and he has ruthlessly cut them off.

Let's give James credit for intelligence, based on the extraordinary success of how he has positioned himself in the global marketplace as a 25-year-old. He is a smart guy, and everything he has said so far suggests that he will return to Cleveland. He constantly announces to crowds in Akron how much he loves them and his home city, and he has repeatedly said that Cleveland is in the driver's seat in the race to retain him.

When he goes on TV on Thursday he'll be able to say truthfully that he himself has never indicated he was going to leave Cleveland.

A lot of negatives will follow him to Miami. His people at home will feel betrayed. He will have to change his style of play -- sacrifice is the common term -- in order to fit in with Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh, even though James, by his own admission, has yet to peak as a player. Shouldn't he want to explore his own potential before he begins deferring to others? And how is that Miami team going to win a championship immediately with as many as seven roster spots to be filled by yet-to-be-identified veterans on minimum contracts?

None of this Miami talk makes any sense to me. This extravagant charade is set up for James to go on TV Thursday to declare his loyalty to his hometown, to say he took a look around at more glamorous places and in the end decided there is no place better for him than Cleveland. And then he'll go into next season with a promising new coach in Byron Scott and a deep roster that has won 127 games over the last two seasons, and every time he puts on the Cavs uniform he'll be selling himself as a player who was ultimately loyal to his hometown and his franchise -- which is how every athlete who endorses products hopes to be viewed.

Maybe I'll turn out to be wrong. But if I am, then it's James who has made the biggest mistakes by deciding to abandon his hometown in the ruthless setting of a national broadcast and then ruining the drama of his live TV announcement by leaking out news that he's going to Miami.

He's staying in Cleveland, I say.

Read more: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/w ... z0t7jj6fcp


Windhorts continua a dare segnali poco incoraggianti:

Still nothing directly from #LeBron or inner circle. Despite some thinking this is a smokescreen, all sources say he's signing in MIA.

Frizzi wrote: oh ma Big Z non lo rifirmiamo?

se va via james che senso avrebbe rifirmare ilga, sarebbe meglio ripartire da un progetto più giovane ma futuribile

andreaR wrote: se va via james che senso avrebbe rifirmare ilga, sarebbe meglio ripartire da un progetto più giovane ma futuribile

Big Z è i Cavs..non lo voglio vedere con un'altra maglia

Frizzi wrote: Big Z è i Cavs..non lo voglio vedere con un'altra maglia

non credo si corra il rischio