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Originally Posted by KingpinMedia
Why would he stay in Cleveland? He can get offered more money elsewhere and no matter where he really goes outside of Chicago or Miami, the team he goes to will be rebuilding. Lots of Cleveland players are free agents and they will have a new coach (Byron Scott) soon - so Cleveland will be in a huge rebuilding process to. The only reason he might stay would be for loyalty of his hometown, but I think he's too much of a media/attention whore to stay.
Besides players cant be signed for another week, so I'm sure he's going to let the world wait on his decision, so he can soak up some more attention.
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Actually he can get more money staying in Cleveland than if he goes anywhere else.
The NBA's collective bargaining agreement states that there is a max contract you can offer a player. If a player has less than 6 years then the most they can pay him is 25% of the total salary cap or around 13 million per year. This is the most any team can offer so no matter where he would go he would get the same money. There is what they call the Larry Bird Exception. This is a clause in the CBA that allows teams to exceed the max contract numbers to resign their own players. So the Cavs could offer him more money (I read as much as 30 million over the life of the contract) than any other team.