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For What It’s Worth, LeBron Would Endorse Tom Izzo’s Hiring in Cleveland

It’s been relatively quiet on the LeBron front lately — unless you count recent campaigns to bring him here organized by a moving company and a couple of hopeful 12-year-olds — so even though his reported endorsement of Tom Izzo’s hiring in Cleveland might not end up factoring into his decision at all, it nonetheless qualifies as newsworthy as July 1 approaches.

Izzo, of course, hasn’t actually taken the job, and one imagines it’s a considerably less appealing gig if LeBron decides to sign elsewhere. Like LeBron, Izzo doesn’t seem to be tipping his hand one way or the other: When asked by a boy at a basketball camp whether he’d be staying at Michigan State or leaving for the Cavs, he replied, “Bad question.” Take that, inquisitive young minds!

There’s also a difference between “100 percent” endorsing Izzo’s hiring — as the Cleveland Plain-Dealer’s “high-level source” words it — and wanting to actually play for Izzo in Cleveland. Even the Plain-Dealer notes that “James isn’t believed to be giving anyone a hint to what his personal plans will be once he hits free agency on July 1.” That’s just seventeen days away now, by the way.

For What It’s Worth, LeBron Would Endorse Tom Izzo’s Hiring in Cleveland