Former Superagent thinks LeBron James to Miami
Count David Falk in the Stephen A. Smith camp...
The man who once unofficially ruled the NBA with a client list a mile long believes the reports that LeBron James is south Florida bound, as he tells the "Boomer and Carton" radio show in New York City:
"The inside people that I'm talking to are all telling me that (LeBron James) and (Chris) Bosh are going to team up with (Dwyane) Wade and go to Miami together. No state taxes, (Pat) Riley's going to come out of retirement and coach the team."
As for the recruiting period? You can rest assured that the wheeling and dealing began promptly at midnight.
"When we did free agency, the last major one we did was four years ago with Elton Brand and when the Clippers called us at 12:07, we already had two max offers for him. So this is a game of musical chairs. When the music stops, if you're a team, you better have a player and if you're a player you better damn well have a team. But this year, interestingly, there are a lot more teams in the room than there are players that should get the max."
He also manages to take a nice, little swipe at old friend David Stern when referencing the new age of "max contract" salary ceilings that began a decade ago and largely marginalized the necessity for Falk's services. The key victory for Stern in the 1999 NBA lockout:
"Think about it in today's rules where we don't have to know the nuances of the rules, it blows my mind that a guy like D-Wade and LeBron, two of the best five players in the league, are going to make the same salary as Chris Bosh and (Carlos) Boozer and Joe Johnson."
He'll be absolutely right if, and when, Joe Johnson gets his max contract: a guy who can not possibly be the best player on a championship caliber team, demonstrates nothing in the leadership department, and leaves a fractured Atlanta Hawks locker room in his wake.
Although, to be fair, he wouldn't know the state of things upon leaving Atlanta since he didn't actually show up himself for locker clean out day.
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