It sounded more to me like Gearon was speaking as a fan. “Hey, if I could sign LeBron James, I would! He rocks!”

I really dislike the David Stern crackdowns.

The fact that the Hawks are acknowledging that they’d go into the luxury tax for Lebron is at least a significant fact for Lebron, so I can understand why it’s considered tampering.

This whole thing is ridiculous though, and Stern is literally acting like a baby about the fact that this year’s free agents completely run the league … not Stern.

As long as he’s alive, the NBA will be wack.

Only you can talk about the self proclaimed king. send him where you wanna like you dreamt you would

and he fines anyone who says otherwise

I reject the premise that speaking publicly has more impact than anything done privately—-and there has to be more that’s discussed privately that impacts free agents than anything Mike Gearon might innocently slip in a local interview.

But Jay-Z can bro-hug and pound it out with Lebron at Nets games? Come on, Dave Stern…give Hova the fine as well.

It’s obvious he wants LeBron to stay in Cleveland b/c of the Chinese connection there and a chance to expand the NBA global. Either way, I am glad our ownership has expressed a willingness to bring in LeBron. It shows, at least with this statement, that they are willing to spend money to win, but they will do it wisely.