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LeBron Recruitment Attempts Will Never End

061510lebron.jpg Can't we all just be like Derek Jeter and leave LeBron's next team placement up to The Fates? Apparently not. In the latest attempt to woo the free agent, the Knicks have put together a "free agent" committee of city big shots—like Donald Trump, Alec Baldwin and Chris Rock—with the hope that free agents (or just LeBron) will listen to one of them. Rock told the Post he would ask LeBron, "You really want to live in Cleveland? That's what I would tell him. Where do you want to live?" Well, he was born in Akron...

Trump echoed Mayor Bloomberg's sentiments towards the star, saying, "I am in many different cities, but I can tell you, LeBron, there is only one New York." But Knicks spokesman Barry Watkins insists it's not just a LeBron committee. "The enthusiastic response we have received from so many people wanting to help has been overwhelming and we look forward to working with this committee in various ways to show free agents that there is no better place to play and to win than in the world's most famous arena and in New York City."

One a scale of one to lebroptimist, an official committee is quite tame. It's not like they're trying to name a borough after him. But aren't there a bunch of other, cheaper free agents that could make the Knicks better?

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  • whitecastlerock

    The recruitment attempts will end on July 2nd when LeBron signs elsewhere...

  • You would think that for a guy willing to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to become and stay mayor for three terms, Bloomberg might be able to muster some type of positive endorsement of New York, rather than just verify its existence.

    "I am in many different cities, but I can tell you, LeBron, there is only one New York."

    I have had many different mayors in New York City, but I can tell you, only one was Bloomberg. And he was inane.

  • Whoops. That was Trump, not Bloomberg. Reading comprehension drops off after 9pm.

  • and yet he still doesn't have an NBA championship under his belt. Championships are not won alone.

  • justthinkin

    No doubt, but any team owner would love to have an ass-in-the-seats draw like Lebron over a championship team any day. It's just so much cheaper and the return so much greater to pay one guy big bucks than to build a real team.

  • BERT

    It's a blessing for Gothamist, as you all will never stop writing about it either...

  • Gotham Extremist

    When did Alec Baldwin and Chris Rock become NYC big shots?

    PLZ stay in Ohio, we no need no chokaz here.

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