As the NBA’s annual moratorium period has ended and free agency has officially begun, nothing great seems to be happening at the current moment. Contract agreements and offers have flew around to every kind of player from Houston’s max offer to Chris Bosh, to Melo’s plethora of potential suitors, Chandler Parsons verbal agreement to the Mavericks, and even Ben Gordon’s agreement to a 2-year $9 million dollar contract from the Magic. (How in the hell did THAT happen?) So why it is that after all these meetings with free agents and all of these “Verbal Agreements”…..nothing has yet been made official? The simple answer hearkens me back to a French proverb that states “The silence of the people is a warning for the king.” And that king, in reference to the NBA, is without a doubt LeBron James.
Local newspapers, national columnists, News anchors, and even P.O.S, is talking and offering their opinions and rumors. Even anonymous sources are trying to figure out where NBA players are going to next. Especially those that are involved in the NBA: Players, Owners, General Managers; everybody is reticent from making any sound until the pending decision on where “King James” decides to lay his throne. It shouldn’t come as any surprise, given the fact that just four years ago LeBron had the whole country glued to their television sets as he thoroughly defecated on the city and franchise of Cleveland in one of the most iconic sports moments in the first Decade of the new Millennia.
The key difference4 years later, is that LeBron is also affecting the decisions of every major free agent and NBA franchise that are trying to sign possible free agents. There are even reports out there that Carmelo Anthony, who earlier this week was believed to be re-signing with the Knicks, has not made decision because he is waiting to see where Lebron decides to play!!
This kind of attention and control over a whole league and its players is truly unprecedented and probably will never be seen again. I guess there’s nothing else to say but…..”All Hail The King.” (quoted by Adam Silver).
– JRC
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