Since the Big 3 of LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh all opted out of their contracts with the Miami Heat, there’s been various reports as to what they want. The initial assumption is that they would all take less in order to help Pat Riley improve the roster. Now however, there are reports that James wants a max deal and his agent Rich Paul has met with several other teams in case Miami doesn’t work out. Well now it looks like Bosh is forming a contingency plan of his own.
via CBSSports.com:
Bosh possibly going to the Rockets (or to the Lakers or Mavs) proves why the notion of Bosh taking a $10 million pay cut to stay in Miami was never realistic. With the Bulls, Rockets, Mavs, Lakers, Cavs, Suns and potentially others chasing James, Anthony or both, there are more teams than there are LeBrons and Melos (only one of each). Once James and Anthony have made a decision, the teams that lost out will be lining up to create a market for Bosh.
Thus, with James waiting for Heat president Pat Riley to revamp the roster and with Dwyane Wade leaving $42 million on the table at age 32, Bosh is the member of the Big Three most likely to break away. Multiple league sources say there will be a close-to-max market for Bosh if Anthony and James stay with their respective teams. One of those people, an executive with a rival team, said the growing belief around the league is that Bosh would prefer a four-year max deal with another team to a discounted longer deal with Miami.
The league is basically waiting for LeBron and Carmelo to make their decisions before any other moves are made.
