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  1. ironcrotch

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    Bosh and Wade heading to Miami

    Where now does Lewhore go?

    NY with Amare
    Chicago with Rose
    Cleveland with no one
    If Bosh can get a S&T done between Miami and Toronto Lewhore could go there as well
     
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  3. Mediocre Man

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    Bosh and Wade heading to Miami

    Where now does Lewhore go?

    NY with Amare
    Chicago with Rose
    Cleveland with no one
    Brooklyn with Harris and Lopez
    If Bosh can get a S&T done between Miami and Toronto Lewhore could go there as well
     
    Mediocre Man, Jul 7, 2010
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    Re: Breaking: Wade and Bosh to Miami, LeBron joining Happy Days

    Celtics can still take them. Who else they going to get? Not LeBron, I'd bet a large chunk. He's not going to join Wade on Wade's team and forever be one ring behind.
     
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  5. ironcrotch

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    Re: Breaking: Wade and Bosh to Miami, LeBron joining Happy Days

    They can't afford another max guy, unless they get rid of Beasley, who they couldn't give away. Unless some how Toronto loses their balls and give into Bosh and S&T taking back Beasley and Chalmers.

    Seems like Wade and Bosh is the duo and now LBJ is off to make his own team, probably NY if I had to guess.
     
    ironcrotch, Jul 7, 2010
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    Re: Breaking: Wade and Bosh to Miami, LeBron joining Happy Days

    If they don't come to Portland, keep them in the East! Now lets hope Boozer goes East, joining Stodemire's exodus....and our road to the WCF's just got a little easier.
     
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    Re: Breaking: Wade and Bosh to Miami, LeBron joining Happy Days


    Let's start by getting out of the first round, shall we?
     
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    Re: Breaking: Wade and Bosh to Miami, LeBron joining Happy Days

    It won't take Miami long to fill in the pieces around them. Beasely is not bad. They can still sign another free agent. Vets who have no rings will flock to South Beach to join in.
     
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    Re: Breaking: Wade and Bosh to Miami, LeBron joining Happy Days

    If we're healthy, we're a Western Conference championship team if not an NBA Finals contender.
     
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    Re: Breaking: Wade and Bosh to Miami, LeBron joining Happy Days

    Vegas has 6 teams with better odds and 2 with the same as the Blazers in the Western Conference alone. It was about the same last year and as expected, we made a first round exit.

    http://www.vegasinsider.com/nba/odds/futures/
     
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    Re: Bosh and Wade heading to Miami

    Could you imagine Lebron holding a one hour "look at me" special on ESPN only to shit on his hometown and rub their noses in it? I just don't see that happening ... but if it did? Goddamn, he'd become maybe the most vilified figure in professional sports; at the very least he'd never be able to show his face in Ohio again.
     
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    Re: Breaking: Wade and Bosh to Miami, LeBron joining Happy Days

    I wouldn't mind seeing LeBron go to NY, and create a LBJ/Amare vs. Wade/Bosh vs. Boston vs. Orlando. That'd make the East pretty entertaining.
     
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    Re: Breaking: Wade and Bosh to Miami, LeBron joining Happy Days

    They can get 1 or 2 of Haywood/Felton/Mike Miller/Redick and keep Beasley to come off the bench. They will have a lot of flexibility with singning just 2 max guys.
     
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    Re: Breaking: Wade and Bosh to Miami, LeBron joining Happy Days


    According to who, you?

    Nothing points to it other than fans. Not "experts" not Vegas (the real experts)

    I hope you're right, Maxie, but don't state it like it's fact or something
     
    Mediocre Man, Jul 7, 2010
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    Re: Breaking: Wade and Bosh to Miami, LeBron joining Happy Days

    Both of us. They were a 50 win team despite losing three of their four best players for significant amounts of time.
     
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    I'd like to see James stay with the Cavs or go to NY with Amare now. As long as he doesn't go to Miami, I'm okay with these two teaming up together.
     
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    Re: Breaking: Wade and Bosh to Miami, LeBron joining Happy Days

    Perhaps you didn't read the "If he's healthy" part. If we show that we are healthy, the Vegas people will adjust their odds accordingly. It's not like they are going to keep their odds the same the whole season - they adjust them game to game!
     
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    Re: Breaking: Wade and Bosh to Miami, LeBron joining Happy Days

    The only odds I see Vegas laying on the Blazers related to their health is whether or not they will indeed stay healthy.
     
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    Re: Breaking: Wade and Bosh to Miami, LeBron joining Happy Days

    At the start of the year when everyone was healthy the team couldn’t integrate the skills of their top players. Brandon especially and even LaMarcus had trouble sharing the ball and did not like that Oden was a focus of the post game. Players were complaining about playing time. The talent of the players was not stacking; but interfering with one another. The previous year when everybody was healthy the team lost in the first round. The injuries helped this team in many aspects, it defined roles, gave players more shots and better stats.

    Saying the team won 50 games without three of their top four is a total exaggeration. Brandon, LaMarcus, and Miller were healthy for the majority of the regular season; they along with Oden were our top 4 players. So we missed one of our top 4.
     
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    I think this signals that LeBron is staying in Cleveland, and Bosh knows it.
     
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