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We've all heard the talk about Lebron James being in a contract year, and that teams are making room to try and sign him to a deal to bring the superstar to their city. Some teams are shipping out anything and everything. However, at what point do you sacrfice everything for long shot? Well the NY Knicks have oversold their prospect for Lebron in my mind. They are currently 0-13 with a chance of breaking the worst starting record in NBA history of 0-17. Now in what crazy world would Lebron want to go from the Cavaliers who have made it to the playoffs and who were a stones throw away from the NBA Finals to the NY Knicks who have yet to win a game?
The Knicks have made it known to everyone that they want to bring Lebron to NYC. However, they have no selling point to bring him the NYC besides money. How can the NY Knicks tell Lebron he will have a great chance at winning an NBA Championship when they can't even make the playoffs or win a single game? Granted the NBA has become a one or two player team league, but one player doesn't win the championship, a team does. No matter where Lebron ends up, he needs a supporting cast. Cleveland has been trying to put together a team that surges into the Finals and comes away with a championship. If he left for the big city, he would be starting from scratch with a supporting cast that would probably lose to a top NCAA men's basketball team.
The Knicks are not only hurting its fans by giving them nothing to hope for, but they are hurting the league by not being competitive in any aspects. They have become a circus rather than New York's NBA team. There is no shame in hoping, but the Knick organization should be ashamed for doing everthing but forfeiting their season in order to obtain a single player with the dreams of creating a competitive team again.
The Knick organization needs to take a step back and re-structure the way they are doing their business. Their whole mentality is bad for everyone - nothing good will come out of this situation at the end of the season whether Lebron goes to NY or not. Either Lebron goes to NY and has no one to play with but himself, or the NY Knicks wasted 3 years of developing a competitve team in anticipation of Lebron actually wanting to come to NY. Nothing about the NY Knicks is appealing, not to Lebron or anyone of his stature. I look forward to the day that Lebron says thanks, but no thanks to the Knick organization.