NBA Commissioner David Stern says LeBron James' prime-time "The Decision" special was "ill-advised," and that he should have let the Cavaliers know he was leaving before he announced it on national TV. Gee, thanks, Dave. He added that the way James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh met to discuss their futures together didn't violate league rules and won't be investigated. Whatever. What good would an investigation have done anyway? What would we want out of it, for him to force LeBron to come back to Cleveland? Would we want a player who doesn't want to be here?
Stern also fined Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert $100,000 for his open letter to fans after James' announcement. Big deal. Dan Gilbert has $100,000 in his change jar. I'm pretty sure it was worth $100,000 for him to blow off that steam. Stern also rebuked Jesse Jackson, who said Gilbert's comments indicate he thinks of James as "a runaway slave." This is a sports blog, and I'm not going to get into issues involving the racial climate in this country, except to say I'm pretty confident Gilbert would reacted the same way if James were white.
This whole situation is just ugly, sad and unfortunate. Did Gilbert overreact? Sure, he did. But he was angry and hurt. How many of us can honestly say we'd have handled it better?
Regardless, there will be a Cavaliers season that starts in October. The Cavs won't be the marquee team they've been for the past seven years, but they'll win a few games. How many, I have no idea. They'll probably take a while to recover from this, but they've got a good management team in place, and given a few years, they'll be competitive again. I'm tired of thinking about who they don't have anymore. I hope my next Cavaliers-related post will be about who they do have.
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Mullett, the over/under for the number of wins the Cavs will have in 2010-11: 26
Will Shaq be back? If so, he will probably become the player they promote the most. Pretty sad since he will play 29 games and be injured the rest of the time.
I'll take the over on that Jeff. My best guess would be 30-32 wins.
I doubt Shaq will be back. I can't imagine him having much interest in returning to a bad team. I also think its in the Cavs' best long-term interests to rebuild quickly with young players rather than older so-so veterans. OK City is probably the best example. It'll take a while but hopefully Cleveland can do something similar.
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