NBA Free Agent Roundup

LeBron - I hope LeBron is planning to go back to Cleveland now, since he's doing his best to annoy everybody else on earth during this whirlwind tour. Holding a one hour press conference on ESPN to announce where he'll play is a stunt regularly pulled by high school seniors around signing day but is beneath a professional athlete. Combine that with LeBron now referring to himself as "King James" regularly and the arrogance is getting annoying.

Bosh - I think LeBron is going back to Cleveland and it'll be alone. People seem to think Bosh should do the sign and trade to Cleveland so that he can get the true max rather than sacrifice the 30 mil to sign outright. I guess the idea is that the honor of playing with LeBron makes up for the fact that you'd have to do it in Cleveland. Not sure why though. In Miami you get D-Wade, a guy who actually has a ring, plus no state income tax and South Beach. In Chicago, Bosh probably gets D-Wade, Rose, Noah and Deng (or whoever they dump Deng for), plus the Bulls history, Chicago's media market and a chance to win titles for for the next 6 years. If Bosh goes to either Miami or Chicago, he's on a better team and in a better city than Cleveland. After spending years in Toronto (a basketball purgatory) Bosh is way better of without LeBron and his 30 mil.

Wade - He's fine no matter what. The only way he can get screwed is if Bosh goes to Cleveland leaving Wade without Amare, JJ, LeBron or Bosh. Not likely. If he goes to Miami or Chicago with Bosh he's probably in the top 3 teams in the east.

Knicks - Signing Amare is a decent move, he can still light it up. They need to turn Eddy Curry's expiring deal and the rest of the cap room into some kind of ball handler and rebounder because Danilo and Amare don't exactly relish hitting the boards or playing D. My idea, sign Carlos Boozer and try and turn Eddy Curry into Gilbert Arenas.

Orlando - Stamp those championship rings now. Chris Duhon is in the fold.

NJ/Brook - Somebody's getting screwed here and it might be NJ. Nobody is going there without LeBron and they suck out loud as it stands. I hope the Russian can get LeBron and Wade to go with whichever Lopez sister mans the middle in Newark. That would be an exciting team. Besides, Jay Z and Beyonce aren't on TV enough.

TRIVIA QUESTION: How quickly does Spike Lee drop the Knicks if Bron and Wade/Bosh go to the future Brooklyn team, is it:

A - Cocaine Heartbeat
B - New York Minute
C - Faster than Snookie in a hot tub or
D - Quicker than a levy breaking in a depressed parish

The Answer: there are no wrong answers. He's a tool.

BONUS TRIVIA QUESTION: How did the Russian billionaire owner of the Nets make his money?

A - Killing spies for the KGB during the Cold War
B - Killing spies for the KGB since the Cold War
C - Killing Muslim seperatists for Vladamir Putin
D - Poisoning KGB defectors in London with radioactive material

The Answer: as ALCOA would say, you make the call!