James and Wade on the Same Team?
December 23, 2009
Eric Ball recently took at look at the chances of LeBron James and Dwayne Wade landing on the same team and it’s an interesting take on the situation. This is most likely going to be a long shot, but with the amount of cap space teams are clearing to make a run at these two free agents in the summer of 2010 it certainly isn’t out of the question.
I would love to see two mega-stars such as these two get together while they are actually in their primes. Just think how successful the Celtics have been even with aging stars like Ray Allen, Paul Pierce, and Kevin Garnett.
With these two, it appears possible especially after Wade made some very intriguing comments to the New York Post regarding his free agency after the season:
“Before we agreed to terms, LeBron and I had a couple conversations,” Wade said. “I can’t recall exactly what we said, but the gist of it was we wanted to give ourselves the flexibility and the option to play together.”
The two played together in the 2008 Olympics and evidently liked what the other brought to the table (and who wouldn’t?!?!)
The only way this would work is if both players would take a significant pay cut. Nobody expects pro athletes to do that, but Wade says in this situation it’s not out of the realm of possibility:
“A lot of times in this league, players usually wind up going where they can get the most money. We’re both blessed within that area. We’ve made a lot of money. So we wanted to base our decision on two things, the organization and the ability to win a title. And that’s what we’ll do. When the season is over, we plan to sit down and talk about it.”
This is great news for New York Knick fans. The franchise might be able to pull off something this outrageous. James and Wade can make up the lost salary with all the endorsements deals they can handle.
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