"Hey LeBron - if you live here you can get your Nike money in actual bags of banknotes delivered by hand"
I have all the respect for LeBron as a person and skills as a player (no as much as an employee, but that a different topic), but I must say that he looks like the guy from Home Alone after he heat got burnt to a crisp.
Yeah nobody is going to come here for the Unique Opportunity of Working Way Too Hard to Get to The Second Round. Gotta trade CJ to get someone now.
The Portland metro area has about 2 1/4 Million people. Out of that maybe 1 1/2 Million are adults. Out of that maybe 10% or 150,000 are NBA fans. Out of that maybe 100,000 tops would contribute $7.50 average. That would be a grand total of $750,000.00. Do you think we could get LeBron James for 3/4 of a Million dollars? Nope, the money has to come from investor(s) who would expect a profit out of his/her/their risk.