This morning, I wrote about the how the Heat can get James in Miami financially. Basically, they either need to get rid of Michael Beasley or the big three needs to accept less than max money.
The new cap number doesn’t change the first part. The Heat would still need to get rid of Beasley in order to have enough space under the cap for three max contracts.
[However,] the new cap number [also] means the [hypothetical] big three wouldn’t have to sacrifice as much as originally thought.
Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh have decided to sign with the Miami Heat while continuing to recruitLeBron James to help them form an All-Star triumvirate that threatens to shift the NBA’s balance of power, two sources with knowledge of the plans told Yahoo! Sports. “They think they’ve got a real chance to pull this off with LeBron,” a league source said. Said an official with one team that made a formal presentation to James: “It’s down to Cleveland or Miami for him.”
The three players shared a call after midnight on Wednesday, when Wade and Bosh told James they were committing to the Heat, a source said. James didn’t commit with them, but kept his own plans private for a television announcement on Thursday night. Wade and Bosh plan to formally announce their decision on Wednesday afternoon.
