This is not going to happen. They both need the ball, it’s absolutely craziness to think this.

Sounds good but both would have to take a pay cut realistically.
JWall
Lebron
Yi
Wade
Lopez
Wade and Lebron would have to both NOT take max deals
This would be monumental in any city
Especially Brooklyn
But who’s house would it be?

Nets fans are going to be pleasantly surprised in 2010.

What about this Proposal…

Jazz trade to Nets: AK47 and Utah’s 2010 first round pick
Nets Trade to Jazz: Bobby Simmons (expiring contract), Eduardo Najera, and Terrence Williams.

lol

the very idea that we could sign both Wade and James is simply hilarious

I’m going enjoy this rumor all over CHristmas and then, as soon as i sober up, forget all about it.

It is nice to dream though…

Just say NO to AK47. Acquiring him kills our 2010 cap situation. If anything, we should be trying to shed more salary for the potential of bringing in two stars.

@ Andy

Utah’ 2010 1st rounder belongs to the Minnesota TWolves (top 15- or 17 protected, I believe).

Anyways, I wouldnt give up on TWill for AK, taking that monstrous contract off their hands would be enough incentive for them.

Maybe the could give up on a young player like Koufos. AK and Koufos for Najera and expirers.

But Id rather consider making a move for AK in the offseason (if there arent better options in the FA makret, which I think could be the case), not now.

We already can bring in two stars….but i mean it’s qite possibly from a business situation. if they really wanted to do that, the nets would be the most logical choice to play. Young players, the prospect of playing at new york, and an already strong foundation and core.

Im talking about the knicks pick man..lol

Sad enough, the Knicks pick may not even be a lottery pick. Acquiring it is not worth the risk of totally screwing up our cap situtation by taking on AK47. As is, we cannot offer two max contracts, we need to shed another 8 million or so in order to do that.

I think those players’ motivation comes partly from being the ONE force one their team that can change the outcome by themselves. Having both players on one team would dilute that.

LBJ would love it but Wade wouldn’t want to be in the same team with LBJ at least for now. Wade will be LBJ’s sidekick not the man so his ego would not allow him to join LBJ.

Same applies to LBJ joining Heat. Heat is Wade’s team and LBJ would not be able to change that.

Maybe when both get older this can happen but not now.

Harris/Dooling
CDR/LEE
Turner(Wesley J.)/AK47/Hayes
Favors/Yi
Lopez/Boone

i dont see us landing any free agents..not even gay or lee…

The main attraction in Nets is not Brooklyn but Lopez. If he continues to be 20/10 guy, stars would want to join Nets. Just imagine we get the first pick and get Wall. That would be crazy.

we gonna go from worst to first baby!

The only way that we can get two superstars is if both superstars take a 18-22 mil a year contract. If both accept a deal starting at 18 mil than that would take up 36 mil on two players. We would then have to trade Devin Harris and C Lee to Miami for D Wade. This also is assuring that we draft John Wall.And Lebron would sign on his own or maybe Cleveland would accept a first round pick for him. That would but our salary at around 52 million. then we can easily go over 10- 12 million more. I would then give any vet trying to get a ring a contract or try to draft a power forward that will bruise up the opposing team, someone tough as nails.

My 2010- 2011 lineup

PG. Wall/ Dooling/ Rookie
SG. Wade/ CDR/ Raja Bell (2 year biannual deal)
SF. James/ Mike Miller (3 years 12mil deal)/ T-will
PF. Yi/ B. Wallace (vets minimum)
C. Lopez/ Shaq/ Rookie

The Nets need a legit power forward in addition to either one of these 2 players if they want any chance at a title. We’ve already tried the “big three” and saw how that worked out. Teams that win championships have balance and effective role players.

I love the nets but i dont think i could be a fan with lebron on the team…i hate that guy’s guts with a passion.

Andy I think you are nuts. you and everyone else in this world would be a nets fan as they win 45-60 games a year.

But seriously,

the nets are in love with bosh and joe johnson.

If we get Wall our lineup will probably be

Wall
Harris
CDR
Bosh
Lopez

lol…i guess ur right but lebron just annoys me…peronally i wouldnt like him on the nets.

Well I say anything can happen, if the Nets can get John Wall with the number one pick and Brook Lopez hopefully will be alot better by that time, there could be a chance LeBron and Wade could play with the Nets. With all the talent surrounding them this team could be a huge turnaround next season. I know the Nets will be a better team next year even if we dont get LeBron or Wade.

@ andy what are you thinking. AK 47 come on now cut it out.

With a Russian owner…its inevitable.

@ andy what’s up with you with this AK47 bull…….. the guy sucks for all the money he’s getting paid and would kill our cap space. Please do not mention him any more.

Hey NI and Net fans. What a great and wonderful day.. We all should be thrilled and thankful for the this great XMAS. Question: the The Golden state pick: is it less protection or did we get the right swap picks. If so could we run a bamboozle and swap the Mav pick for theirs this June.

Magic is right. I even think the idea of Wade pairing up with Rose is a bad idea. What was the point of drafting Rose then if your going to bring in a guy who handles the ball 90 percent of the time anyways? Now, if you were to combine Lebron or D Wade with Bosh, it’s a completely different story. Because they could work so well off of eachother

I agree that Brook is attracting alot of FAs. Everyone and their mother knows you can’t win championships without a big man and Lopez is for real (no broke up prone Bynum). We are missing a dominant PF to make this this effective and complete. Despite our current record, our future situation is knowingly intriging. If we get Bosh and Wall, that would be great. We’ll be able to get some real vet work horses that will compliment the bench well.

Hey milloard….you obviously haven’t been to this form. It is possible that ak47 could land with the nets…just read netincomes article of what proky could do with the nets.

I know he has a sucky contract…but he’s a good all around player and I wouldn’t mind him playig for the nets. I’m only mentioning him because I don’t see see us landing any free agents…everyone is going to be overpaid.

@Ely

Your right, Lopez shouldn’t be forgotten as a attractive commodity. Although, talking about power forwards, I’d go for more of a Udonis Haslem type. Help provide some muscle around Brook, and hopefully be able to hit a 15 footer.

That’s the problem with this team offensively(I know the defense has been horrible lately) but we have so many guys in the rotation who are dead weight on the offensive end.

And if that’s not the problem, it’s Brook Lopez getting doubled teamed, and instead of running cutters and keeping the defense on it’s toes, guys off the ball stand around and let the great defenses get their digs in, or swarm.

@Andy and Andres:
I wouldn’t give up on TWill either, even if Utah would include the Knicks 1st round pick that is owned by Utah.
Knicks might make playoffs yet, or at least Utah might be fearful of that happening.

I still think Nets management is high on TWill, but they are trying to bring him down to Earth first, by controlling his PT.

If Nets wanted to give up TWill, they could probably get Boozer before deadline, but still no guarantee to re-sign him. Besides, current Nets management wants to give Yi a good shot before severely limiting his PT if Nets got Boozer. Proky may have other ideas about Yi.

The thinking behind getting Kirilenko, is IF getting LeBron/DWade is not feasible, then with AK47, you get a suitable player now, another piece such as David Lee THIS summer (besides the draft picks) and ANOTHER piece in 2011 free agency when Kirilenko is put on a MLE contract to continue playing for Comrade Mikhail.

Its getting very complicated but possible dealings between Utah and Nets are worth full discussion by NI since Nets could easily accommodate Utah’s wishes to save money.

@Tony
Agree completely about LBJ and DWade. DWade is just trying to be polite. He would be Robin and LBJ – Batman.

This is all a Catch 22 because Nets would have to have a better team before any of the top FAs would come (Boozer would be the best available). So instead of dropping 8 million in Cap, they would have to decrease Cap space first.

If Nets first improved team and then lucked out with Draft Pick(s) then I wonder if someone like Lebron could accept a contract that payed well under the Max during his first year? If the answer is NO, then Nets should take another approach.

Draft John Wall.
Trade Harris for Stoudemire or Boozer.
Sign LeBron and Wade.

PG : John Wall
SG : Dwayne Wade
SF : LeBron James
PF : Amare Stoudemire or Carlos Boozer
C : Brook Lopez

Hell yeah…

If that happens, fans who stuck with the team will be rewarded !

Why would either come to the Nets, when there are competing teams with proven talent that would give them a better shot at a championship (for example their own teams) in the near term?

How many top tier free agents joined the post-Jordan Bulls when they were way under the cap with young, bad teams with potential?

Wade WOULD want it.. think about it, Lebron would always be one championship behind Wade if that were to happen

Nets aren’t getting any free agent, period…

Hopefully Proky and his “people” will decide who to trade,draft,coach, etc.

Hopefully they are a lot smarter the us. Hopefully…

ive been saying all season long, we need wade, lebron and david lee at PF

but still 2-3 is more than good!!

:D :D :D

I love this website, but please stop blowing smoke like this to gas the homers up.

One minute it’s “oh it might be prudent to wait til 2011”, not discussing the fact that the Nets will have less cap space at that time because they’ll need to resign key young pieces.

Next, it’s fanning baseless rumors about Lebron and Wade joining forces.

It won’t be here. Lets keep the homers grounded at least, please. I know it’s an NBC article, but come on fellas. Dead the LBJ/Wade talk. This team is the worst team in the NBA and is cruising towards the record for the worst record in league history.

I don’t see both free agents making that jump(Dream come through but no) I don’t ego will be the decideding factor, I think money will, everyone talks about taking less money, but no one does it till they get older and they see the hill coming. But honestly, I think we become championship material with either one, if we get John Wall ( Sorry Devin, but I’m just thinking that we over hyped you so much, that the reality of the sitution is, you’re just a quality PG, nothing more.) And people please save the crap about “we need to win games first before FA’s come” Don’t you people remember how very, very bad the Celtic’s were before giving up half there team to get Kevin and then signing Allen, and even then all they had was “Veal” on their bench, and unproven PG for which they weren’t even sure could have run their team, True they had Paul, but they still sucked, With NJ, A first class FA is gonna get a quality, young, egoless center, possibly a number one draft pick PG, or they’ll have a quailty,young PG in Devin, who can’t handle the pressure on his own, but played damd well with one Superstar in Mr. Carter, imagine a Lebron? And we still haven gotten to CDR, TWill or CLee, who knows what does guys can turn into with the right leadership. Listern True Net’s Fans, stop listerning to all the stupid hype or Negativity being pumped by so call pundits and wanna be’s, facts are facts, and the facts is, as of now Brooklyn IS GOING to happen, we’re going to have the richest owner in pro sports(who by the way is a basketball nut, and had sucess in his other basktbakl ventures abroad and wants to win more than us) we’re going to have a high draft pick (if not the first overall) in a good draft, and we have great young building blocks in people like BLO and those mention above, keep your heads up guys.

@Mr. Dollar Bills
You should make the distinction between what we post as links and the opinions expressed in the comments. NO one is “fanning the flames”. It’s out there. If NBC Sports posts an article on the possibility of Lebron and DWade playing on the Nets, should we ignore it because you or someone else out there think it will “fan the flames”? NBC Sports is not a fan blog, like the Bleacher Report or Nets are Scorching or HoopsWorld.

If I were a young athlete choosing a place to live while playing a winter sport, I would choose new jersey over miami?

How anyone could say that the supporting casts of either the Heat or Cavs is better than what Lebron or Wade would have on the Nets is beyond me. Brook Lopez is already worlds better than anyone not named Wade or LeBron on either team. Add to that an all-star point guard, and a lot of young talent/potential in CDR, Lee, Yi, and TWill, and I don’t know how anyone in their right mind would choose the garbage Cleveland or Miami has managed to surround their superstars with over what the Nets have to offer. Oh, and I forgot to mention a top 3 pick, which could turn into John Wall (another future superstar) if the balls bounce our way. On top of all that, we’ll have the richest owner in all of sports in just a few months. I can almost guarantee that Prokhorov will come in right away and make it crystal clear that he is out to win championships, and that money is a non-issue. He’s going to want to make a huge splash, and he is going to go hard after both of these guys. The Nets have positioned themselves in such a way that their situation this coming summer is second to none in the league, and it’s really not even close. The only potential thing that could hold them back is the simple fact that they play in NJ, but I would hope that with the Brooklyn arena breaking ground some time soon this may not be as much of a factor as people expect.