LeBron To New York More Likely: Knicks Have a Plan To Circumvent the Cap

Rumors have surfaced, on Thursday morning, that make the chances of LeBron James to end up in New York seem a lot greater. When LeBron becomes a free agent in the summer of 2010, the Cleveland Cavaliers will be in the best position to resign him. This is because of the Larry Bird clause, which allows a team to go over the salary cap in order to sign their own free agent. The New York Knicks will offer LeBron a max contract, but they will not be able to offer LeBron as much as the Cavaliers. So they got creative in the Big Apple and found a way to get around that blasted salary cap. The rumor is that the Knicks will not only offer LeBron a max contract, but also his own cable channel. You see, the Knicks are owned by Cablevision, a cable TV company. LeBron would receive income from the advertisers on his cable channel. According to NBA rules, the team would not be allowed to set up these endorsements/advertisers for LeBron, he would have to handle that himself. But I think we wou...