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Sources: Knicks have inside track on signing LaBron Thursday
By Scary Barry July 7, 2010 |
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The shock of getting two superstars in Miami have worn off with the signing of Dwayne Wade and Chris Bosh. Now the business of the LaBron James sweepstakes is the buzz for Thursday. ESPN was smart in building this one up to a crescendo for the Thursday night presser that will last one hour and be hosted by Jim Gray of ESPN. Sources have told news organizations including the Daily News and AP that basketball's premier player is set to ink a deal that will have stratospheric financial gains and the Knicks have set salary cap room for $17 million and that was after signing Amare Stoudemire from Phoenix. The interview will be held at the Boys and Girls Club in Greenwich Conn, LaBron had met with Knicks officials twice this month that's one more visit he gave either the Heat, Cavs, Nets, Clippers, and Bulls. Talks this past week at the Knicks sources said have produced a positive agreement in money and TV revenue. If LaBron signs on with the Knicks he will be in the nation's number TV market. The Knicks have not built a team chemistry that would lend the possibilities of being a team post season threat since the the 1990s and starting to build around LaBron would be very doable in the Big Apple. The World Leader in sports coverage have been tight lipped up to now on where LaBron would go and no one in either of the six teams who are bidding on LaBron would talk but speculation since last season was that the Knicks were hot on making cap room for LaBron come bargaining time. The Knicks look at this as their window of opportunity and to improve not only the organization but to have the game's number one attraction in the number one city. Speculators on the New York Stock Exchange have simply said that signing LaBron would not only add value to the franchise but also put 100 of millions of dollars in the pockets of front office executives, TV executives, sponsors and the Knicks could be like the New York Yankees of basketball with the revenue from sponsors and TV and they could later sign anyone in basketball they wanted because they could afford to. Thursday night we'll see what happens, but you heard it here first the Knicks have the inside track to getting LaBron James. Scary Barry contributes to Sportstalk Radio |
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