LeBron wants 1-2 year deal & max contract

[Redz]

Bosh has had to sacrifice his game time and time again at request of his coaches. Now they force him to take paycut for making those sacrifices.

Bosh should leave.

Agreed.  If the superfriends were to break up, I always felt it would be Bosh who'd be the one to leave first. 

Sounds familiar



although I guess it was less about the money in Ray's case

[Randy]

https://twitter.com/daldridgetnt/statuses/484078698899857408
 
@daldridgetnt  - Agent Henry Thomas, on report clients Bosh & Wade will take $12M/per & $11M/per, respectively: "all the BS you are reading is just that."

[Rondo9]

Yeah like Bosh will take an 11 million dollar contract! 

[quidinqui33]

People can hate on lebron, wade, and bosh and debate how teaming up affects their legacy but these guys and maverick carter have been masters at working the CBA with shorter contracts and taking less money in order to control their own destinies and take power out of the owners hands.

They did this way back when their rookie contracts ended and they each took extensions that were one year shorter than the max.

These are some pretty business saavy moves by the players and their agents in order to play where you want, give yourself the best chance at winning, and maximize earning potential by increasing endorsements by taking incremental annual salary and length of contract cuts.  All the mean while keeping your owners on their toes to continually improve the team and giving them the cap space to do it.

Not a heat fan, but I gotta respect this from a business side by the players.

[Randy]

People can hate on lebron, wade, and bosh and debate how teaming up affects their legacy but these guys and maverick carter have been masters at working the CBA with shorter contracts and taking less money in order to control their own destinies and take power out of the owners hands.

They did this way back when their rookie contracts ended and they each took extensions that were one year shorter than the max.

These are some pretty business saavy moves by the players and their agents in order to play where you want, give yourself the best chance at winning, and maximize earning potential by increasing endorsements by taking incremental annual salary and length of contract cuts.  All the mean while keeping your owners on their toes to continually improve the team and giving them the cap space to do it.

Not a heat fan, but I gotta respect this from a business side by the players.

Business savvy? Name one endorsement deal of Chris Bosh's off the top of your head? He might make $2 million a year off endorsements if he's lucky. Compared to Lebron's $50M+/year. He probably made close to $100M this year from endorsements, nba salary and the $30M he made of the sale of Beats to apple. Now Lebron wants $22M next year and is asking Bosh to take a huge pay cut? I could understand if Lebron single-handedly carried the Heat and won the finals but he didn't. Bosh looks like a **** if he takes more than a couple million dollar cut just so lebron can profit because really that's the only person who is making money from winning championships on that team.

[Vermont Green]

I believe the part about Wade and Bosh taking less to stay in Miami and play with LeBron but if LeBron is signed for only 2 years, why would Bosh and Wade want to be lock in for 4 or 5 years.  It would be no fun to be in Miami after LeBron left.

I guess at those $$$, Bosh would still be very tradeable, not so sure about Wade.  He could go down hill (or maybe better said continue to go downhill).

[LooseCannon]

Business savvy? Name one endorsement deal of Chris Bosh's off the top of your head?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpDsgnnvmC0