Visceral feelings on NBA free agencies and decisions to come

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This time, it’s quiet and behind the scenes by Mr. 6 that has led to the entire NBA community basically assuming that the “Big 3″ would return to Miami next year, with some creative accounting that will let the team add a role player or perhaps a fourth musketeer. But literally, the winds shifted so hard over Fourth of July weekend that you’d think we’d be pelted by spent fireworks shells by now. An east side personal Trainer named Josh Teplitz started reporting with insane confidence and inside sources that #6/#23 will indeed be returning to the team that drafted him, and the deal is all but done. 

Of course, nothing new happened over the weekend, until Sunday, it got to OJ Simpson-like levels with people following planes from Detroit to South Florida with words that Dan Gilbert filed this flight plan.

And late Sunday night, the national media started feeling the same way. Let’s keep in mind that none of this seems to be sourced, and certainly not on the record. ESPN’s Chris Broussard:

My wife has explained to me that she thinks every Cavs fan needs a little bit of emotional counseling because of the scars left in the middle of each of our backs from four years ago, layered, of course, upon decades of previous scars. So to get the temperature of those of us who thought “Cleveland Sports Torture” was a clever name something like ten years ago, here is some emotional dumping of our state of mind right now.

Brian: Four years ago is still fresh in my mind, and it’s because I was shocked. How could he go on television and brutally humiliate an entire fan base, the fan base that had supported him and defended him against legions of haters? May seem cliched now, but it’s not just that he left–it’s way more about how he left. Followed up by revisionist history that the other 14 Cavaliers all were a bunch of stiffs and everyone knew it, even though virtually every national writer picked the Cavs to win the 2010 NBA Championship at the end of the regular season. But ever since, all I wanted was some hint of success from the “new” Cavs, and obviously, we haven’t seen it yet. But as they say–time heals at least some wounds. I don’t know if I want “The Return.” I would rather win a championship without him, any day of the week. But I don’t know if I’d sacrifice a chance at numerous championships on spite and hatred and bad feelings alone.