Could Cleveland's plan be to start LeBron at PF?

[nickagneta]

I've been a little perplexed with the moves that our close rivals, the Cleveland Cavaliers have made this off season. They have added Shaq and resigned Varejao but other than that their focus has been on smaller players.

They have signed Anthony Parker, a 6'-6" small forward that plays LeBron's position and they are now apparently looking at Joey Graham:

http://www.cleveland.com/cavs/index.ssf/2009/07/source_cavaliers_have_interest.html

another 6'-7" small forward and have also a lot of interest in signing Matt Barnes:

http://realgm.com/src_wiretap_archives/60506/20090711/cavs_interested_in_barnes_kleiza_szczerbiak/

yet another 6'-7" small forward. So with a roster that is littered with back court guys(West, Gibson, Williams) and wing guys(LeBron, Parker, Kinsey, and Jawad Williams) and the Cavs looking to add at least one more and maybe two more player in either the SF or 2 guard positions, where are they going to get playing time for all these guys.

There's been no talk about Cleveland looking at big men and with just AV, Shaq and Z as proven commodities there and two other second year guys (Hickson and Jackson)taking up the end of the bench, could the Cleveland plan be to bring in a bunch of small forwards, turn that position over to them and play Lebron at the point PF slot with AV and Z coming off the bench?

I'm not sure that's the plan, especially with Shaq, X, AV and LeBron all making lots of cash, but if Danny Ferry doesn't see anyone that intrigues him before training camp, I have to believe that Cleveland will be seeing Lebron playing a bunch of PF this year.

[GKC]

Lebron actually goes to the 4 often when they play small.

There's no he'll start though. With them just spending 50 million dollars on Varejao, I'm sure they didn't calculate that based on the fact that he'd be a really expensive bench player. Also, Lebron may spend too much energy having to defend very good bigs (and is much better defending SF's anyway).