Хорошая новость: вокруг гудрона не сформируется очередная читерская команда.

Плохая новость: хороший игрок загубит свою карьеру рядом со стероидным недорослем.

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ЛАЛ если будут делать все по уму будут в шоколаде, главное не отсыпать контракты всяким Денгам и Аризам, а продать капспейс за пики контендерам(взять истекающие), капспейс очень дорог будет в этом году, если команда без капспейса захочет контендить им придется отдать ЛАЛ все что они пожелают

Maverick Carter was giving it to LeBron James in a Wachovia Center hallway following a Cavaliers-76ers game in Philadelphia last season. Andre Iguodala took it to King James in the first half, knocked the crown off his head for one night, lighting him up for 21 points in the half.

Outside the locker room, Carter, who has known James since they were 5 years old, teased him mercilessly, wondering what happened, how Iguodala could abuse him so thoroughly. No matter: The Cavaliers won and Iguodala finished with 27 points.

“Well, I held him down in the second half,” James said sheepishly.

No teammate, coach, fellow NBA player or rapper/celebrity would dare talk to James like this, to rag on “The Chosen One” with such ease.

“Obviously, two guys very comfortable with each other,” said author Buzz Bissinger, who co-wrote James’ book, “Shooting Stars.”

Carter is James’ de facto agent/manager and CEO of LRMR, his marketing firm whose initials represent James and his so-called Four Horsemen — LeBron, Randy Mims, Maverick Carter and Rich Paul.

They are his Akron childhood buddies, and they make up a most untraditional business inner circle, though Paul, 30, has branched off with O.J. Mayo.

Critics wonder if Team LeBron is too unconventional — if they are savvy enough to be the major players whose voices will resonate in James’ ear about the merits of New York, Newark, Chicago, Miami, Los Angeles and Cleveland in the coming weeks.

James is a wannabe billionaire athlete whose chief business decision-maker, Carter, is a 28-year-old childhood friend from Akron who spent two years at two different colleges before dropping out.

Mims, 34, traveled with the Cavaliers as James’ personal assistant his first two years, flying on the team jet, before the organization hired him as “player liaison.” A more fitting title for Mims would be “LeBron Liaison.”

“He pretty much just sticks with LeBron,” a Cavaliers source said.

James also surrounds himself on occasion with the notorious William Wesley, worth a book of his own. Wesley, 43, is the confidant to the basketball stars — a lurking power-brokering agent-liaison whose back-channeling ways are legendary and earned him the moniker “Worldwide Wes.”

Nevertheless, Wesley goes formal Tuesday — officially becoming an agent for NBA and college coaches. As one James insider said, “He’s not really part of ‘the team.’?”

There also is the growing influence of rapper Jay-Z, and Lynn Merritt, a powerful Nike executive who runs the James ad campaign.

“Everything runs by Lynn Merritt,” an agent said.

Then there is Manhattan publicist Keith Estabrook, a protective watchdog of James’ image, so intense he will argue effectively against the word “entourage” because he believes it is a negative depiction of James’ collection of Akron advisers.

When reporters call the Cavaliers public relations department on a James query, they are transferred swiftly to Estabrook in Manhattan.

James’ official agent, as listed with the NBA Players’ Association, is Leon Rose, a 49-year-old lawyer from Cherry Hill, N.J., whom most regard as a figurehead.

“He’s there because of his relationship with Wesley,” one NBA agent said.

In 2005, James fired his first agent, prominent Aaron Goodwin, who secured James’ historic $90 million Nike deal the day he was drafted in 2003.

According to a source, Carter informed Goodwin of his axing by e-mail. Sources also said Carter, who had an 18-month internship as a sneaker rep at Nike, got closer to James when James’ surrogate father, Edward Jackson, left the picture and went to prison for fraud.

In his best explanation of the Goodwin firing and formation of LRMR, James told Esquire two years ago, “For me to grow as a businessman, or for me to become a man, I decided I’ve got to start working with guys I can trust — my friends. Now I don’t have to be there for them to get into places, high-prestige places. Or to have a business meeting with somebody. LeBron doesn’t have to be there.”

May 30, 2010