The Heat and Cavs expect LeBron James to make his decision on where to sign before he gets on his flight to Brazil this weekend, tweets Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo! Sports. It’s likely that any decision James makes will impact where Chris Bosh, Kevin Love, and Chandler Parsons find themselves next season as well. While much is seemingly tied to the four-time MVP’s choice, odds are low anything is decided tonight. Let’s catch up on the rest of the league while we wait on LeBron and the 2014 edition of “The Decision”:
- The Raptors are finalizing a buyout with Lucas Nogueira‘s team in Spain, writes Josh Lewenberg of TSN.ca (on Twitter). We had heard earlier this week that Toronto was likely to bring over Nogueira and Bruno Caboclo prior to the start of 2014/15.
- The $9.8MM trade exception that the Warriors had created from the Richard Jefferson deal with the Jazz expired tonight, as David Aldridge of NBA.com observes (via Twitter).
- The Steve Novak trade, which became official today, allows the Raptors to create a $3,445,947 trade exception equivalent to Novak’s salary. The three-teamer between the Nets, Cavs and Celtics that was also formalized today allows the Nets to create a diminutive $741,160 trade exception equal to the difference between Marcus Thornton’s salary and the sum of the salaries for Jarrett Jack and Sergey Karasev. The Cavs could end up with trade exceptions out of the deal, too, but they’re poised to open cap room, so those exceptions would disappear when they officially dip below the cap.
- The Bucks and Pacers have had discussions for a trade including Roy Hibbert, writes Gery Woefel of the Racine Journal Times. Milwaukee is interested in acquiring Hibbert, says Woelfel, but it isn’t clear if Indiana is interested in any packages the Bucks could put together.
- Nikola Vucevic and Tobias Harris‘ rookie deals expire after 2014/15, and as a result, the duo became extension eligible this summer. Josh Robbins of the Orlando Sentinel hears discussions about new contracts between the Magic and the young big men will pick up some time around Labor Day.
- Caron Butler is being pursued by the Clippers and Thunder, tweets Chris Mannix of Sports Illustrated. Butler, of course, has spent time with both organizations.
Chuck Myron contributed to this post.
Chris Sheridan is still adamant that LeBron is going back to Cleveland. Broussard with a cryptic tweet and smiley face that probably points to him believing so as well. If thats the case, then good luck to him personally. I hope that Dan Gilbert will not be allowed to take any credit whatsoever, nor should he be allowed to celebrate anything
He never even met with Cleveland. It’s all media hype. The same guys claiming they’re 100% certain were the same ones wrong last time. Don’t worry, as much as we all hate it, he’s going back to you guys.
its his decision, whatever happens. As I’ve said, I wont be upset either way. I’m just thankful for a great 11 years of basketball (I say 11 b/c it has been a real privilege to watch Dwyane Wade his whole career)…Broussard was right last time, so theres that. I do consider it all media hype, and I’ve said that I’ll wait until I hear it directly from Lebron before I believe anything. I’m just saying that all the media garbage over the last 3 days or so has not looked good.
Well, I have egg on my face,lol
rofl…its cool. Like I said, its his decision, I respect it, and am thankful for a great era of basketball. I wish him personal success. Right now, I’m having a good laugh at all the hypocritical “Cavalier fans” celebrating, and continue to be disgusted by Dan Gilbert….
It’s Bruno Caboclo not Bruce
Also effects where Wade and other SF/SG are going to go.