http://en.yibada.com/articles/13823...n-love-portland-trail-blazers-dwyane-wade.htm More of a proposal to help Wade get to Cleveland.
"Dwyane Wade has canceled some of the free agent meetings he had scheduled this week. Wade had been scheduled to meet with the Milwaukee Bucks and Denver Nuggets." It should also be noted that Wade is still in negotiations with his incumbent team, the Miami Heat. In the meantime, the Cavaliers need to clear cap space to sign Dwyane Wade and this could be reason enough to reopen the Kevin Love trade proposals. There are other teams that would be better fits for the former All-Star Power forward and Neil Greenberg of The Washington Post pointed to the Portland Trail Blazers. Read more: http://en.yibada.com/articles/13823...d-trail-blazers-dwyane-wade.htm#ixzz4DZdNz7VK
They're way over the cap (with an assumed max salary for James). Trading Kevin Love doesn't get them the kind of cap space to give Wade a big salary. They'd need to trade Love and have James take a big hit to his salary. Seems unlikely.
Unfamiliar with yibada.com, but nice pictures of girls with big boobs on their site. That generally spells credibility.
This article lost all credibility when it said the Blazers needed a star and that Love would improve our low-post scoring and transition game. Apparently the writer hasn't seen the Blazers or Love in a few years.
If Portland where to renounce enough cap space, Davis for Love works. It improves the Blazers but still leaves them short of contender status. LeBron may have to opt out and then sign for less but they've done that before.
His rebounding and outlet passing could help start fast breaks but agreed, not sure where they get "low post scoring" from Love.
I have serious reservations that this article is credible, but if it's true I guess it'd be worth a flier. It'd be a total reclamation project with huge bust potential, but at this point it's going to take a big gamble to change this team's fortunes in the next couple of years.
We would completely rehabilitate his career. He's really underutilized in CLE. I don't trust yibada. They got nothing.
Anyone thinking Wade to Cleveland for the money he wants is possible should read up on S&T's and teams being over the apron.
Kevin Love was in downtown Portland for the Fourth of July. Some of my friends were talking to him for a while about basketball and took pictures. I guess he was really nice.
My understanding is if they could trade Love for someone who could absorb around half of his contract, and they were to renounce all the rest of their FA's including LeBron, they would have somewhere around $30M to sign Wade and LeBron with cap space money. I believe you can re-sign your own renounced FA if you have the cap space but please correct me if that is incorrect.
