Is LeBron James Playing Mr. Grinch with Talk of Contraction?

December 25th, 2010 by Kevin Lindsey Leave a reply »
LeBron James gave NBA fans something to savor and enjoy on Christmas Eve, the thought of the league contracting several teams.

“Hopefully the league can figure out one way where it can go back to the ‘80s where you had three or four All-Stars, three or four superstars, three or four Hall of Fames on the same team,” James said.  “The league was great.  It wasn’t as watered down as it is [now].”

King James not being bashful, further expanding upon his idea of how the league might go about the task of contraction.

“Imagine if you could take Kevin Love off Minnesota and add him to another team and you shrink the [league].  Looking at some of the teams that aren’t that great, you take Brook Lopez or you take Devin Harris off these teams that aren’t that good right now and you add him to a team that could be really good.”

LeBron in making his comments was careful to stop short of saying that if he was in favor of contracting with franchise. 

“Not saying let’s take New Jersey and let’s take Minnesota out of the league.  But hey, ...

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