If KD stayed they would have signed Horford, but Horford knew KD was gone.
KD, Westbrook, Horford, Adams, Olidipo. One hell of a starting lineup.

Would have been awesome to see that team battle the Warriors, but nope. Now it's the Warriors and Cavs and the Spurs 500 ft below them as the next best team.

I read they were "talking", but Cleveland cant match what Wade wants. Unless of course Wade takes less, but they are calling it a long shot at this point.

Were folks as salty when LMA went to the Spurs?

Someone associated with the Cavs announcer said it was 'a done deal.'

Who knows at this point.

Aldridge is basically Chris Bosh/Kevin Love...except worse. Nobody cared.

Could very well be the best defensive player in the league. And the system helps all of them, but you need to have superb court vision and a very high BBIQ to play that role that he does in that offense. The fact that he's also improved his shot to become a well above average 3PT shooter (38.8%) is also enormously helpful.

It's a chance with KAT. He's that damn good.

Not saying it will happen, but very quickly people are going to start talking about him as a top 5 NBA player the way they do Anthony Davis.

And KAT is going to be better than Anthony Davis.

I'd care a lot more about the Wade rumors if he was still in his 20s and his knees weren't completely gone. He could still probably manage to be a good role player on a contender, but acquiring him now would be kind of like the Nets acquiring Paul Pierce a few years back.

ROFL

I think the Cavs will trade someone like shumpert. It also wouldn't surprise me if lebron took a massive paycut. He can afford to take a 1 year haircut given his enormous endorsement earnings. But what I'd really like is to trade love and get a little value back.

Why? The Warriors finished 73-9 last year and lost in Gm 7 to the Cavs. They just added a top 5 NBA player and the Cavs have done what exactly?

I'm not a fan of either team but lets be realistic here. Warriors will more than likely destroy any team they face in the playoffs if they are healthy.

Stop Curry, there's Durant, stop Durant (and stopping Curry AND Durant is going to be nearly impossible), there's Klay, Stop Klay, there's Green.. Also, they still have a decent bench..

Ha! Good luck Cavs...

He's not worse than those two, he is pretty much just as good if not a little better.

if it was wade in his 20s then i honestly wouldn't care if durant was on the warriors. I'd go all in on a Wade/Irving/James lineup

I'm torn on this. I like the fit better than love. And I'm assuming playoff Wade will be back. And that version of Wade was spectacular last year.
But Wade is a volume shooter and not a strong defender so I'm not really sure how the three make it work, let alone if love is in the lineup. The Cavs barely made multiple iso players work against gs last year.

If the Cavs traded Love (unlikely), they would need to recoup two pieces. One would be a stretch 4. The other would need to be an athletic wing or rangy five.

I don't see them being able to do that. Additionally, they will be a landing spot for post-buyout vets or league minimum guys chasing a ring. There is value in that.

It's going to be extremely hard to beat the Warriors. Just too much firepower for any one team to beat IMO.

It's almost unfair which is why this signing is bad for the NBA... It's starting to set a bad trend and I don't like it.