Miami treating LeBron James meeting like normal planning
By Mike Dyce
It looks more and more like LeBron James is going to bring his talents back to northeast Ohio. Chris Sheridan reported that his sources told him there was a 90 percent chance James returns to Cleveland.
James still has a meeting with the Miami Heat today. it was originally reported that the meeting would include Heat owner Mickey Arison, team president Pat Riley, Dwyane Wade, and head coach Erik Spoelstra.
According to Yahoo Sports’ Adrian Wojnarowski, the meeting will just include Riley from that list of team personnel, but will also included assistant general manager Andy Ellsburg.
The meeting is being viewed by some as a last-ditch opportunity for Miami to talk James out of returning to Cleveland. Wojnarowski’s report says that the Heat aren’t viewing that as the case with the meeting.
In fact they’re treating it more like a regular planning meeting. That likely means outlying their free agent moves and personnel plans hoping to entice LeBron James to stay.
LeBron James and agent meeting w/ Heat will include Pat Riley and assistant GM Andy Ellsburg, the salary cap expert, source tells Yahoo.
— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) July 9, 2014
Miami isn't treating today like some kind of Armageddon w/ James, just normal planning meeting to show financial way team's back together.
— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) July 9, 2014