Lebron james RT @jbones216: @dionwaiters3 What player are you looking forward to play against the most?
@dionwaiters3
Dion waiters
Tweet of the Night goes to Dion Waiters – the fourth overall pick of the Cleveland Cavaliers in the 2012 Draft – for looking forward to the challenge of facing LeBron James, the best all-around player in the NBA.
Of course, Waiters won’t exactly match up against James given that they play two different positions and Waiters is much smaller in size, but it’s probably music to Dan Gilbert’s ears nonetheless. Before Waiters sets his sights on James, though, perhaps he should concern himself with this guy first.
Jared Dudley thinks Chauncey Billups is ready
Gilbert loves the Cavs!
low payroll indicates saving for the future, gathering lottery picks, then when Irving, Thompson, Waiters and Zeller hit their prime, they have flexibility to make a big trade happen and contend for a title.
It’s the OKC blueprint that will be followed for years and years to come. AJ you are just an idiot
The “OKC blueprint.” Funny stuff. Before that, the prevailing PR nonsense was they were following the “San Antonio blueprint.”
And gathering lottery picks? Their only lottery picks are their own. Seems to me that’s the “Sacramento blueprint.” And “flexibility” to make a big trade? Fans and media that buy major cap space as a vehicle for contention in a market where no NBA player wants to play is a flat-out sucker. Because you know what that gets you in the real world? Mediocrity and stiffs like Zydrunas Ilgauskas, Larry Hughes, Donyell Marshall and Damon Jones, chumps that you have to grossly overpay just to get their agents to give you any remote consideration in the first place. And the traded Baron Davises and Antawn Jamisons of the world, glorified stiffs that will do anything to get out of a place where they don’t want to be.
A.J.,
The OKC and San Antinio method are one and the same. So both make sense. (Ds you not watch the OKC/SA series? That’s all they talked about.
Huh? They’re one and the same? First, not even remotely close to being true. Second, that’s like saying you’re going to start a new Internet business, and you tell your PR marketing guru that the company is using “the Google blueprint.” Uh, what? That would be a load of crap. The same way the Cavaliers’ marketing team spewed a load of crap during Ferry’s imaginary “San Antonio blueprint,” the same way they’re spewing a load of crap during their imaginary current “Oklahoma City blueprint.”
No, what they did during Ferry’s reign of error was the “Orlando blueprint,” and what they’re doing now is the “Sacramento blueprint.” But marketing departments and local media shills have never been ones to dabble in reality. Reality is depressing and it can’t be hyped or sold.
Dan Gilbert doesn’t give a damn about anything unless there are dollar signs attached to it. He wouldn’t give a crap if the Cavaliers went 0-82, so long as his bottom line is black. Yet another NBA season of that pompous fraud having one of the lowest payrolls in the league.
Aj u know nothin bout gilbert or the cavs. U are obviously one of those ppl who believe everything they hear or see on espn. Gilbert absolutely would care if the cavs went 0-82. Ur retarded aj. There isnt one owner who would b content with losing all 82 games but ur oblivious to that fact. Do ur self and every NBA fan a favor and go watch golf or soccer cuz u know nothing about basketball or any owner. Go drink lysol
Really? Then explain the 26-game losing streak, and then proceeding to make absolutely no effort to improve the roster in two consecutive seasons thereafter. The sole solid transaction since LeBron left (thanks to Ferry and Gilbert) was the Irving trade, which was a total fluke of 2.8% draft probability percentages. This is a man that authorized removal of all of the drinking fountains from an arena paid for with public funds so he could sell more bottled water and food at the concessions stands.
I believe everything I see with my own eyes, I recognize a longstanding pattern of behavior, and I trust my own common sense. Three major things apparently missing from your own cache.
By the way, this isn’t Twitter or a text messaging system. “Ur” is not a word unless you’re a blue and gold macaw in a cage trying to ask for a cracker.