Passing along some Cleveland speculation

[Atzar]

I love threads like this.  I wish we had a few more members that were representative of other teams - I'm a Celtics fan first, but I'm an NBA fan too, and I like to hear about what's happening outside of Boston.

TP to everybody who posted in this thread.

[MMacOH]

The Raptors could have bought a pick in the first round but NO ONE expected the Cavs to draft Eyenga.  Everyone, and I mean everyone in Cleveland was caught off uard by this pick.  Ferry never even hinted that he was thinking of drafting Eyenga.

There are PLENTY of teams that can offer more for Bosh in trade than the Cavs, but what if Bosh doesn't want to play for that team.  No team will trade for Bosh unless they can agree to work out an extension for 2010.  Teams aren't going to mortgage their future to rent a player.  What if Bosh's intentions are to play with Lebron next year?  The cap shrinking has killed that idea for the Knicks. 

I love dreaming up scenarios for the Cavs. 

[paintitgreen]

It's not a bad package for TOronto - a lot of already proven but still fairly young players in the trade package, plus some apparently interesting-to-TOronto projects. If Cleveland did draft Eyenga for that purpose, it's fairly smart. I was very curious heading into this offseason how Cleveland would choose to attack their future situation. They had cap space to get Lebron and another guy in 2010, but had to make some changes. I initially though Shaq was just a stopgap measure, since it was a "move toward winning" but didn't jeapordize any 2010 cap space. But then resigning Varejao and adding Parker took away the cap space to add a big name player by free agency.

Varejao, West, Eyenga, Hickson and two first rounders (which won't be good picks) would be a pretty good offer for Bosh if he's not gonna stay. Especially if Cleveland adds another cheap piece and takes on Marcus Banks' contract. Toronto does love foreign players. That would leave a lineup of Mo-Parker-Lebron-Bosh-Shaq in Cleveland with Gibson, Z, maybe Moon, and whoever else Cleveland brings in this year off the bench. That'd be a solid team going forward.

[Rondoholic]

Good thing Toronto won't be bad this season with a starting lineup of:

Bargnani
Bosh
Turkoglu
Jack
Calderon

[MMacOH]

Good thing Toronto won't be bad this season with a starting lineup of:

Bargnani
Bosh
Turkoglu
Jack
Calderon

That lineup isn't winning a championship anytime soon though either which is what Bosh wants

[PosImpos]

Honestly, I'll be pretty surprised if the Raps don't make the playoffs this year.  They are even better than last year and they should have been at least a 5 or 6 seed last year with the talent on their roster.