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Yes.  I’m speaking directly to Delonte West.  

Perhaps he is reading this right now.  I like to think that among the 42 visitors I average per day to this site (suck that Waiting for Next Year…. wait, you get how many?), that 14 of them are the Cavaliers.  Ok, well maybe 13.  I imagine Varejao isn’t reading this.  If he relied on blogs for a dose of truth, he would have ended his asinine holdout in September of last year.

Last week I discussed the rumored deal on the table from Dynamo Moscow for Delonte West (2 years, $10 million). This weekend exposed Delonte as being full of shit (I’m paraphrasing Bob Finnan).

With the euro being so strong and the U.S. dollar sagging miserably, notable players such as Josh Childress and Bostjan Nachbar have already begun their sojourn overseas.

However, Cavaliers point guard Delonte West probably won’t be joining them. An Internet report saying he received a lucrative offer from Dynamo Moscow in Russia is false.

When contacted on Friday, Cavs general manager Danny Ferry said as per team policy, he wouldn’t comment on negotiations.

But what he could have said was the Internet report was bogus. How would he know? He was in Moscow on Friday and spoke to Dynamo coach David Blatt.

Agents bluff every day in this free-agent process. Perhaps West’s agents have talked to teams overseas, but there are only a few teams in Europe that can make a splash like Olympiacos in Greece, who signed former Hawks forward Childress to a three-year, $20 million deal on Thursday.

I get that agents lie.  But I have a very low tolerance for shenanigans after watching the way that Fegan handled business last year.  

I hope you were watching closely what just happened in Los Angeles.  Sasha Vujacic, who like West is a crucial role player on a contending team who emerged to have a solid second half of the season, just resigned.  He didn’t get the full midlevel deal he was after, but he got 3 years and $15 million.  That’s what you are looking at Delonte, at least here in the NBA.

I’d continue laying down economic truth bombs but I’ve been offered 8 million dollars a post from www.eurocavsboard.com.  I’ll be departing immediately.