Prediction: Lebron, Wade and Bosh will join forces in Miami

Over the past few days, different media sources have produced conflicting reports about whether the three biggest NBA free agents have held a “summit” to discuss signing with/demanding a sign and trade to the same team.  While the media rack their brains to find out where each guy is every second of the day, they must have forgotten that Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone. 


All three fellers are “max contract” guys, which means that their annual salaries will be in the neighborhood of $16 million plus in the first year.  So, to acquire all three, a team would need roughly $46-48 million buckaroos.  


The only team capable of making such a plunge is the Miami Heat.  They currently have about $40M in cap space (and two or three players under contract).  One of the players under contract is Michael Beasley, the ambidextrous second overall pick of the 2008 draft.  While Beasley has been a disappointment thus far, he could very well be the piece that lands Chris Bosh in Miami through a sign and trade with the Toronto Raptors.  (For reference, a sign and trade is when the player re-signs with his current/most recent team and is then dealt to a new team.  Due to the “Larry Bird rule” which encourages staying with one team, the players’s current team can pay the player more than any new team could.)  Thus, Bosh gets his extra few million and a trade from a hockey environment to a city with very little sports interest.


Wade’s bed is made in Miami.  He’s excelled there for years and I don’t see him playing anywhere else, except maybe Chicago (where he was born).  


That leaves Queen James – the guy who said he would only meet with potential suitors in a neutral site.  Sorry guys, I’m not coming to your place, you have to fly out to meet me.  Dude, take your roll over attitude and go play in Russia.  You can’t touch Kobe and his messed up middle finger anyway.  


I don’t have an opinion on whether it’s right for Bosh, Wade and James to play on the same team next year.  It’s their choice (along with the Miami ownership).  Granted, the rest of the roster will be made up of NBDL’ers.  They’ll instantly become the 1997 Florida Marlins.  The “paid for” championship.  If that’s the way they want to be remembered, it’s fine by me.

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