This is a very interesting article...
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/ian_thoms...on.greece/index.html

Wow...that would make LeBron quite a sellout in my opinion.

I can't see him playing overseas. He's too obsessed with his NBA legacy. And if you've watched the olympic exhibition games, you'd see that he's pretty damn patriotic too.

(A cousin of mine knows LeBron's main bodyguard, his main dude. And I guess that guy said that theres no chance LeBron even leaves Cleveland. He LOVES being the man in Ohio.)

For sure.

But damn if the floodgates aren't going to open...Childress is just the beginning in my opinion.

You just know some billionaire will throw this at him...
http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=3520860

I could see Kobe defecting ... he's European to some degree anyhow.

I can't see LeBron removing himself out of the US limelight. He may try to get marketed more gloabally, but not play there.

Hey I wouldn't rule out ANYTHING if some Euroteam throws $50M per at him...

I never really thought a Euro team would spend that kind of crazy money to get a LeBron or a Kobe. That game over there is such a team game that it's almost like spending so much money on one player would sort of contradict that I would think.

Obviously they're the best players in the world but i could see these individual players who are used to NBA individual play sort of messing up chemistry.

I know it's a crazy though to think they wouldn't be interested, and I know they've already proven they would be, but it's just a thought.

I'd be interested to see one of these guys try to blend into that team game over there with their massive egos, to say the least.

Just saw a scroll on ESPN that Janero Pargo signed with some Russian team.

I don't get it.

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Originally posted by DTBH:
I don't get it.

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I read today in a little foot note in the PD that SHawn Kemp just signed with a team in Italy.

I shit you not ... honest. He's like 39 years old. Didn't list a weight or how many kids he has by now.

Posted: August 18, 2008
Sporting News staff reports


Shawn Kemp is making a comeback ... in Italy, the team Premiata Montegranaro announced.

"I am happy that a player that has made basketball history would come to Montegranaro," coach Alessandro Finelli told ESPN.com.

Kemp is a six-time NBA All-Star who last played in the league in 2002-03. He is 38 and has tried to come back to the NBA, working out with several teams but not sticking on any roster.

"He is very motivated," Finelli said. "And he has been staying in shape to show up at our camp in good shape."