We all can watch the Cavs and see that something is wrong with this team. Yes, they are currently the 1 seed in the East but that’s off of talent alone. They just don’t seem like a team that understands their roles yet even this late into the season.
Lebron made it known he felt recent free agent Joe Johnson could help the Cavs win it all. LeBron and the Cavs made their recruiting pitch to Johnson but it wasn’t enough. Johnson decided to sign with the HEAT where he has played well so far. But how bad did Lebron really want Johnson to join his team? Not only was he willing to change his primary position, he was willing to do something that could have caused him to spend some time behind bars.
According to Cleveland.com, LeBron informed management he was willing to slide to power forward to make room for Joe.
“All I care about is winning. That’s all that matters to me. A piece like Joe, you know what it does to your team and if he was concerned about playing time or concerned about starting, then I’ll sacrifice. I’ll sacrifice to get a guy like that to help us try to win a championship.
“If he wanted to come in and start and we wanted to keep J.R. [Smith] in the starting lineup and if Double-T (Tristan Thompson) or Mozzy (Timofey Mozgov) had to come off the bench in order for Joe to start and slide Kev [Love] to the five, I would have done it.”
LeBron took it a little bit further with his next statement.
“Man listen, I’ll do anything to win. I’ll kidnap my momma to win,” James said to cleveland.com with a deadpan expression on his face.
I know LeBron didn’t mean literally kidnap his mom but he does seems really desperate about winning another ring. I hope The Real Lambo is holding Mrs. Gloria James somewhere safe far away from LeBron.