HA! You said shlong... 80s.
But you're right........ Bulls are unlikely. Nets good chance. Miami, great chance for Bosh.
The Knicks are realistically in the worst predicament though. If we don't guarantee a second star (and no it won't be Lee) there'l be no King.
We have the worst roster out of the bidders right now.
Yeah, but we also have the most upside to be gained. While the prospect of playing with Devin Harris and Brook Lopez is pretty good, we have MORE cap space. You have potential for some good teams if them FAs go to Miami or Chicago, but the Knicks have the potential to create the greatest backcourt of ALL TIME.
Chicago wouldn't be a good place for Wade or LeBron - they're both 1st options, Chicago already has their #1 option in Derrick Rose. They should be looking to add a good outside shooting big man to add some paint presence, hence they'll likely go after the Carlos Boozer/Chris Bosh/Amare, and that would be ideal for them.
The Nets have a good future but they're stuck in Newark for a couple of years, and I don't know if anybody wants to go there.
The Heat are pretty good but the city is overall disinterested in basketball - they have a top 5 NBA player playing there (who's won a championship for the city, might I add) and they still have trouble drawing a consistent crowd. There's not much of a supporting cast there, as Michael Beasley and Daequan Cook are...well, that's not really too good of a supporting cast.
The Knicks have a bleh supporting cast (I have to give Danilo his credit as one of the best long-range shooters in the NBA, which is something LeBron/Wade could really use) but they offer a city that LOVES basketball (the Knicks still have sellouts at home even though the team has sucked for 10 years, whereas the Heat rarely sell out despite the fact that Wade plays there), the biggest market in the entire world, and the opportunity to play with another max contract player.
It's a tough call. LeBron/Wade/Johnson doesn't really make sense in Chicago, the Nets would be a good team but they'd have to play in Newark, and Miami's overall uninterested in the success of the Heat, so New York seems like the best city to go.