#35 NBA moves I want to see happen, Unrestricted free agents Lebron James Special (Haas Picks)

Moves I want to see happen! Unrestricted free agent overview.

Hi welcome back everybody! Like most of you know I posted about the regular season of the NBA weekly as well as I did while the play-offs were on. During the past season I posted over 30 times about my take on the best performers weekly. I really enjoyed doing it and will be back for sure next year!

A few weeks ago I watched the Championship parade in Auckland and realized we all have to wait until the last week of October again to watch some regular season action. Luckily we are in for a great off-season if you ask me, I expect many great moves and the Warriors will be looking closely on who wants to dethrone them.
Today I past about the moves I want to see happen this off-season, but first I will explain the terminology briefly so we understand the different types of free agents.

Unrestricted free agent
Is free to sign with any team although some have options or restrictions in their contract that may impact their choices.

Restricted free agent
Can sign an offer of every team, but the players original team can retain the player by matching the offer.

Player option
Grant the player the power to decide whether to stay for another year or become an unrestricted free agent.
(Lebron James)

This will post be purely about Lebron James and the decision he made last night! This morning I saw some interesting posts on my feed by @scottybuckets and @brianphobos. I also like the rundown @wheresmyfitzy and I expect him to post about Lebron for sure.

The Decision
I was really looking forward to all the moves that were about to happen since many great players opt-out of their contracts. There were many teams Lebron could go and last night before I went to sleep I was hoping to wake up to some news and so I did. Lebron is Los Angeles Laker. Compared to his big announcement to go to the Heat, this decision went relatively quiet. To be honest I expected that he would stay in the East and play for either the Cavs or Sixers but I think the Los Angeles spot lights were just too bright to ignore

My Thoughts
My Thoughts? I have many thoughts on this! In general I respect players that only play for one team their whole career, so I don’t like the NBA nowadays much with shorter contract and players opting out to get more money somewhere else. So please do all respect John Stockton, Dirk Nowitzki, Tim Duncan, Reggie Miller and some others.

I also don’t really like it that big market teams always are able to land the big free agents and that other teams like my beloved Utah Jazz and Toronto Raptors always struggle to do so. I therefore really liked the decision Paul George made to stay with the Thunder!

But back to Lebron James, I do like the fact that the Rockets and Warriors play Lebron James even more now, I also understand his decision of leaving the Cavs who just could not surround him with enough talent to compete for a Championship.

The outcome
The outcome is that the West is even more powerful now and like the past NBA season I predict the NBA champion will come out the West for sure.
I also like the fact that Lebron made his decision fast so the Lakers have even more time to fine-tune the roster. For now JaVale McGee agreed to join the Lakers and also Lance Stephenson decide to team up with the king this time. Both will join the Lakers on short deals in order for the Lakers to hit free agency hard next year again.

I expect LA to maybe even land Kawhi Leonard and really make a strong push for the Championship. If Kawhi goes East they will try Cousins to join, overall very exciting times in the NBA even though I think the Lakers won’t win a Championship I am excited to see what will unfold the coming days

So as you see the season might be over but the NBA never sleeps and is still exciting without games are played.
What will be your dream move? Let me know, and thanks for stopping by Steamian friends.
Will be back soon with part three and discuss other players.