LeBron recruiting Ray Allen for Heat Dream Team?

Frank Isola of the New York Daily News (IMO: the best hoops guy in his town) has an interesting tidbit in his column this morning.

LeBron James is calling the possible union of Dwyane Wade, Chris Bosh and of course, the King himself, "Dream Team."

Those were the words James used when he reached out to another free agent in the past 10 days and pitched the idea of joining them.

"He said, 'Would you be willing to take less to join Dream Team?'" the player, who did not want to be identified, told the Daily News. "He said his people were putting it together."

I've come across a source who has told me that free agent player could be Ray Allen. The source tells me that Allen has spoken to James and his preference is to remain with the Celtics, but that's predicated on Paul Pierce remaining with the team. The money is not a huge factor. Winning more championships is the most important factor.

According to the source, Allen has spoken to James and would consider joining said, "Dream Team." Along with possibly taking less money if it was the perfect opportunity.

(I'm going to assume that some, if not all the BIG 3 will take less than the max in this scenario).

One last factor the source close to Allen mentioned was that Ray's mother lives in Orlando, and he would not mind being closer to his family.

This makes a ton of sense.

Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo had this story weeks ago about Pat Riley's interest in Allen.

It's also, the only missing piece of the puzzle, a shooter.

Chris Mannix who covers the NBA for Sports Illustrated, made that point on my show this morning.

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The rumor mill is at warp speed right now.

Even my colleague Dan Le Batard (who I dubbed Cuban A. Smith) has gotten into the act via his twitter account.

He tweeted that he's hearing Bosh-to-Miami in a sign-and-trade with the Raptors has been agreed to in principle, with Michael Beasley and others being shipped to Toronto.

Finally, Barry Jackson of the Miami Herald has an excellent article on the Heat's plans. Which include Carlos Boozer if Bosh falls through.

Now, you can all go back to your regularly scheduled speculation.

Thank You!

JS

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Comments

[9/11 was an Inside Job]

The Israelis are behind it....

[Bob]

These guys apparently aren't interested in doing whats best for the NBA.

[tzey]

It looks like Doc will be back. Does that affect Ray Allen's plans?

[The HEAT is on!]

The whole 'Best for the NBA' argument is such fiction. The entire American populace loves watching the underdog fight the Evil Empire. Look at the yankees in Baseball. No one really gives a rip about them being big. If they lose against the yanks, they can gripe about how the game was bought. If they beat the yanks, well, suddenly HOLY HELL Our team is AWESOME!!! We BEAT THE YANKS!

It'll be the same for the Heat if they pull this off. Every time the Dream Heat Team roll into town, otherwise crappy teams will sell out their entire arena. It will be business as usual for the rest of the season. Mark my words. This is GREAT for the NBA.

[K-Man]

How is it bad for the NBA? It is great for the sport. Plus it will give alot of players a huge opportunity to shine on other teams. It is great for the NBA and AMAZING for the Heat if true.

[KnicksTweets]

Clearly you have no clue about NY Sports. The best guy in town is Alan Hahn, with Steve Adamek in 2nd.

[Dave]

How is it great for the sport to have a team that will completely dominate the league for the next 5 years? Why bother playing if you're the other teams in the league? Only the Lakers would have a shot at beating them, and that would be slim at best.

[tzey]

well, it beats parity. That is...if this comes to past. I wouldn't start reserving spots in the victory parade line just yet Heat fans!

[Christexaport]

This will ruin basketball. If Miami had that much star power, it would have multiple results.

First, it makes small market teams impossible places to win. Only teams with large payrolls could compete.

Focus would be only on large market teams and Miami, and the other teams would fail financially and get little TV dollars.

The NBA has long survived without a Yankees tyranny. Let's keep it that way. It's bad enough with CHI, NY, LA, MIA, DAL, and UTAH have all the payroll and talent...

[Jlito]

This makes winning a championship almost meaningless for these guys. This is what separates Lebron from Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant. Michael had a good team, but no dream team and accomplished to win multiple championships. If this team is put together, I will lose respect for Lebron and Wade. Bosh is no concern to me,he doesn't actually make any team better..... Then again, too many stars is not always a good thing. Just remember when the Blazers were loaded with stars and never accomplished anything (Scottie Pippen Days).

[Jlito]

This makes winning a championship almost meaningless for these guys. This is what separates Lebron from Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant. Michael had a good team, but no dream team and accomplished to win multiple championships. If this team is put together, I will lose respect for Lebron and Wade. Bosh is no concern to me,he doesn't actually make any team better..... Then again, too many stars is not always a good thing. Just remember when the Blazers were loaded with stars and never accomplished anything (Scottie Pippen Days).

[Batbayar]

James is Celtic , Nice, it would be perfect

[Brandon]

@Jlito why would you lose respect for wade and james if they team up? thats smart of them to do it people dont want them to do it because of the other 29 teams wouldnt stand a chance of getting a ring but the fact is most cant get one now and they are nit even together the point is this is a team sport and you can team with anybody you want

[Dathan]

Dave, Wait, what? No other team would have a chance? Are you out of your mind?!?!? Just because you have three or four superstars on your team doesn't automatically give you a championship.

Do you remember the Lakers with Kobe, Shaq, Karl Malone, & Gary Payton? They lost to a talentless Detroit team.

How about the Celtics? They had the "big three" and only won one championship in three years.

Not to mention the Lakers have Kobe, Gasol, Bynum, Artest, Lamar, & Fisher. I still think the Lakers are the team to beat.

If Miami gets these three, then they will have no money to get any decent roll players.

All you Miami fans, just wait until the finals next year, I would love to see this team against the Lakers. Miami would have no answer, what so ever, for a healthy Bynum. Sorry guys.

[ANTI-BULL]

Who cares if the Heat becomes the Yankees of the NBA, let them all drool and die of envy every time the HEAT does their annual parade every JUNE.

[Sheldon]

@dathan Child Please, the Lakers would piss their pants against the bigger 3, plus there is no thing as a healthy Bynum

[Bob Allen]

Amazing!!!....don't you remember the "old Lakers"....Kareem, Worthy, Majic, Scott..etc. They were a "Dream Team" and were played head to head with Boston. Some of the best basketball in history.

[Rick]

You guys can assemble any kind of dream team you want. But you still won't beat the Lakers.

[Coach Shula]

Dathan,

You Lakers fans are delusional and hypocritical. You keep using the excuse "a healthy Bynum" for why the Celtics destroyed your team in 2008, but like to forget the fact that if Kendrick Perkins doesn't blow his knee out in Game six this year, you would have lost this year's Finals to the Celtics as well. The Lakers missed a ton of their first shots in game seven only to get second and third chances to score, and they wouldn't have gotten all those offensive rebounds if Perkins was playing. As it was, Perkins was out, the Lakers had a height advantage, the refs were in the tank for them in Games 3 and 7 which everyone who is not a Lakers fan knows, and the Lakers still had to go down to the final seconds of game seven AT HOME just to barely survive a crippled Celtics team with no starting center, Rasheed Wallace playing on a bad back and with cramps and Garnett playing on one leg. Oh, but Bynum had to play the whole game with a sleight tear in his knee. Boo hoo. The Lakers have the refs on their side and are more lucky than good. Stop using the Bynum excuse for everything because every team in the league can use a injury excuse. You won two lucky titles( because Garnett blew his knee out in 2009 when he was playing at an extremely high level), and if the Heat form this dream team the Lakers will not stand a chance. You got lucky this year nothing more. The Celtics STARTING FIVE STILL HASN'T LOST A SERIES TOGETHER, and if the Heat form this dream team, the Lakers will not beat them either. Lakers fans are the dumbest in sports. Go nuts Laker fans you barely won this year, maybe someday you'll actually win a championship legitimately

[the rula]

Please no carlos boozer if bosh falls thru at least get amare. I'm tired of undersized power forwards, we habe that wit UD.

[305MIAMIallDAY]

bunch of HATERSSSSS towards the MIAMI HEAT,cant believe this,if we have the financial power to get these players,so whattt????...better for the city of miami and the MIAMI HEAT organization...........we can call this town a CHAMPIONSHIP CITY,stop hating cuz your team might not get or have a chance to get lebron,wade or bosh

[Mark@Maple Syrup Diet]

Allen should stick with the Celtics. Green all the way! And Lebron is always unlucky in the playoffs.LOL

[Grace Sevilly]

The way Allen and his Celtics are demolishing the Heat, it was good for LeBron to recruit Ray-Ray