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A serious question to Cav fans

  • devil1197
    Does LA have Chinese investors within their franchise?
  • 2quik4u
    Why do you think Kobe is so popular in China?
  • Pick6
    This is probably the most intelligent conversation that includes lebron and/or kobe in i dont know how long.
  • devil1197
    2quik4u wrote: Why do you think Kobe is so popular in China?
    The Lakers are an option for LeBron? Ok.

    I am talking about the Clippers, do they have any Chinese inventors who own a % of the franchise.
  • krazie45
    LeBron is not making any more money in endorsements in NYC or LA than he can in Cleveland so let's put that argument to rest right now.
  • LJ
    2quik4u wrote:
    LJ wrote:
    Eric Taylor wrote: On a grand scale, he is worth more in Los Angeles, Miami or even New Jersey with who is running the show there.

    Nobody can offer more contract wise I know, but put LeBron in Miami or LA and see what happens.
    This isn't true. There was a "Sports Business Economist" on the radio this morning and he said Lebron would only be worth more in a big market after winning a championship. If his only options are to go to big market teams who are a few years out, there is no monetary benefit.
    Well after him wade team up, he will get a championship in a big market but only after the Lakers win the next 3.
    So he will have to uproot and move to wait 3 years with no benefit? That makes sense.
  • 2quik4u
    devil1197 wrote:
    2quik4u wrote: Why do you think Kobe is so popular in China?
    The Lakers are an option for LeBron? Ok.

    I am talking about the Clippers, do they have any Chinese inventors who own a % of the franchise.
    I understand what you are saying about the investors but what I'm saying is Kobe is so popular in China because he plays in LA. Same thing would happen with Lebron if he played for the Clippers.
  • ytownfootball
    You act like he has NO popularity in China, which is of course false. If LBJ wanted an endo from China I'm sure he'd be able to get one. Other than that, what does he care whether the Chinese like him or not?

    Mind you, none of us are privy to his marketing strategy, and it's all speculation, but he will be seen by the Chinese at Mickey D's and that's probably a lock.
  • Eric Taylor
    Cavs fans get so touchy. It would be refreshing to see him stay because you rarely see that in today's sports world. LeBron wants to win championships. If he does not win with Shaq this year I dont know what else Cleveland can do to keep him here.
  • hoops23
    LeBron makes more in endorsements than Peyton Manning, AROD, and Derek Jeter do combined.

    He does this playin in Cleveland. The others are the face of the NFL and two of the Yankees biggest stars.

    LeBron is also the loyalist dude I've seen.

    He's staying.
  • Footwedge
    ^^^

    I think he stays too. He will make just about the same wherever he plays. The McDonalds deal will not change a penny if he leaves. He loves his teammates...and he knows that he can win right here in Cleveland.

    I can't think of one team he'd rather play for. Since money is not an issue, I would be stunned of he leaves.
  • Eric Taylor
    LTrain23 wrote: LeBron makes more in endorsements than Peyton Manning, AROD, and Derek Jeter do combined.

    He does this playin in Cleveland. The others are the face of the NFL and two of the Yankees biggest stars.

    LeBron is also the loyalist dude I've seen.

    He's staying.

    Link??

    How the hell do you know he's going to stay? Are you his personal friend?
  • hoops23
    Eric Taylor wrote:
    LTrain23 wrote: LeBron makes more in endorsements than Peyton Manning, AROD, and Derek Jeter do combined.

    He does this playin in Cleveland. The others are the face of the NFL and two of the Yankees biggest stars.

    LeBron is also the loyalist dude I've seen.

    He's staying.

    Link??

    How the hell do you know he's going to stay? Are you his personal friend?
    Yes.

    And link for what? The endorsements?

    http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/columns/story?columnist=adande_ja&page=lebronbigapple-081126
    The two biggest NBA myths around are that LeBron James needs to be in New York and that the league needs the Knicks to be good.

    Anyone who still believes you can make it only in Manhattan probably still calls remote controls "clickers." This isn't the Walter Cronkite era, when we got our news from men sitting at desks in New York. These aren't the old Don Draper days, when everything we thought we knew and needed was generated by the ad shops on Madison Avenue.

    LeBron, playing in little old Cleveland, stands to make more in endorsement money this year than New York Yankees superstars Alex Rodriguez and Derek Jeter will combined. And they play for the Yankees. LeBron could win eight championships with the Knicks and they still wouldn't rule that city the way the Yankees do. Oh, and you could add Peyton Manning's $13 million to Jeter and A-Rod's $14 million and it still won't match LeBron's $28 million in off-court money this year.

    But let's dispense with the notion that he has to go there, that it's the next step in his career and any other location between there and Los Angeles is a waste of his time. Patrick Ewing got to New York a year after MJ went to the Midwest … and you don't see people wearing Ewing's silhouette on their shoes.

    LeBron made the cover of Sports Illustrated and played games on ESPN when he was a high schooler in Akron. In Cleveland, he's been on the cover of Fortune, Time and Vogue (maybe he should have rethought that last one). He has hosted "Saturday Night Live."

    You don't need to go to the media anymore. The media come to you, even if it means parking a satellite truck at your curb. Just ask Joe the Plumber. In the world of YouTube, Flickr and Facebook, anyone with a digital camera and a high-speed Internet connection is the media. In fact, LeBron's best work can be found on the Web, in that sublime scene where Smooth LeBron romances Nicole Scherzinger with a pair of high-tops.

    If LeBron goes to New York, he won't get any famouser. I'm forced to use a made-up word because the Knicks are a made-up mythology, somehow considered to be among the elite franchises even though the Rockets have won just as many championships in 21 fewer years of existence. The Warriors, Trail Blazers and Heat have won more recently than the Knicks. The Bullets and Sonics have won more recently, too, only they're not the Bullets and Sonics anymore.
    Now Eric Taylor, you can STFU.
  • just_a_swimmer
    DeyDurkie5 wrote:
    just_a_swimmer wrote: LBJ will stay. He will finish what he started and retire a cav. Mark it down.
    He stays win or lose.
    you're fucking high!
    That's not very nice :@