IggyPride00 wrote: Even if Lebron leaves, the Cavs still have roughly $48 million in committed salaries for next year. The cap is projected to be somewhere around $56 million.

That is almost no cap room when you consider that $8 million dollars has to fill about 4-5 roster spots.

The team you saw on the floor last night is largely the one you will see next season whether Lebron stays or goes.

lhslep134 wrote: Hm after doing much internet research it appears the only way to sign another max player is through a sign and trade.

Wonder if there's any possibility of that.

j_crazy wrote: I think if Lebron leaves, ownership does a salary dump. maybe not a dump, but definitely no max deals and probably sheds some dollars at the deadline if the team is not in contention. in short, I think they'll be the 2008 pistons all over again.

Al Bundy wrote:

j_crazy wrote: I think if Lebron leaves, ownership does a salary dump. maybe not a dump, but definitely no max deals and probably sheds some dollars at the deadline if the team is not in contention. in short, I think they'll be the 2008 pistons all over again.

I think will be very hard to do a salary dump. No one is going to take the contracts. They would have to wait from some of the contracts to expire before they could much.

lhslep134 wrote: Okay, so IF Lebron leaves, and at this point he's done nothing to convince me he's staying because of how it seems that he puts business before basketball, that leaves the Cavs in a hole, what do you think will happen?

Definitely on our roster:
Mo
Green
Boobie
Hickson
Varejao
Jamison
Moon
Parker

Jawad is a restricted FA


I'm assuming we don't resign Shaq and that Z retires.

If I'm correct, that leaves us with enough money to sign 2 max players, because the max contract assuming the salary cap doesn't increase significantly for a player with 7-9 years of experience is around $17.5 million.

So if Lebron leaves, what do you think the Cavs will do, since I believe we'll have the money for 2 max players (Shaq's $20 mil off the books, Lebrons $15 mill off the books).

I personally wouldn't mind a combination of Amar'e and Ray Allen. Ray Allen hasn't lot a step or his deadly jumper.

Please don't turn this into a thread about Lebron, I just want to discuss a post-Lebron world if that happens.

if SabTel picks up his option.

Writerbuckeye wrote: What will happen (if he leaves) is years of irrelevance again -- with it unlikely Gilbert will hang around to own a franchise that is going nowhere fast (assuming he can even find a buyer to sell at a loss).

Whatever happened to playing for a team and a city and waiting for the window? He's got plenty of good years left. The idea that the team is cap crunched for a year or two and so he is justified in leaving is misguided and wrong.

“Loyalty is something that hurts you at times because you can’t get back youth,” Garnett told reporters Thursday night when asked about LeBron’s free agency. “If I could go back and do my situation over knowing what I know now, I’d have [left] a little sooner.”

se-alum wrote: Dead end situation??