Is Lebron Really Out?

6/24/2014

Today Lebron James said no thanks Miami.

I'm good with this contract.

I'm all set with focusing on the game.

I need me a better deal.

He didn't actually say those words, that we know of, but he might as well have.

Fresh off their embracing no show NBA championship loss to the Spurs, James almost single handedly changed this off season. Yes Carmelo Anthony opted out of NY already but he is far from the best player on the planet. Anthony certainly does not have NBA executives frantically planning to sway him to their city, as James does. In fact from coast to coast teams are planning and scheming as to how they can change their franchise forever and capture Lebron.

Yet will Lebron really leave south beach? The place and team he's had the most success with. Will he hold yet another prime time special to announce his plan for a new big three in a different city? Or will he simply hold out for a longer fatter deal with the Heat?

One thing is for sure James made the NBA free agent period must see tv. He's also shifted all the talk show banter back onto him instead of that bigot in LA.

Perhaps that may just be the best thing for a game which can not stand yet another black eye. In his own self centered way James is somehow at least the diversion the league needs to continue to thrive.

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