Vinny Del Negro dined with Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling and front-office executives on Tuesday night to discuss the team?s coaching vacancy, sources with knowledge of the meeting told Yahoo! Sports.

Dallas Mavericks assistant Dwane Casey, who interviewed with the Clippers on Monday, and Del Negro appear to be the top two candidates for the job.

Del Negro was most recently head coach of the Bulls.

A decision is expected to be made soon.

The Clippers interviewed Mavericks assistant Dwane Casey on Monday and plan to meet with former Bulls coach Vinny Del Negro on Tuesday, according to sources.

Los Angeles is expected to soon decide between the two head coaching candidates, but not necessarily by the beginning of free agency on Wednesday night.

Casey and Del Negro were the finalists for Chicago's coaching job two years ago, with the latter ultimately getting the position.

Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo! Sports continues to bring new information to light about the power moves unfolding within the inner circle of LeBron James.

With James' free agency imminent, tension exists among the members of his crew, who are jockeying for position wherever the superstar plays next.

None more so than William Wesley who, writes Wojnarowski, wants James out of Cleveland and to a new city where his own control would expand.  Despite Wesley's efforts, the Cavaliers remain in the picture to retain James on a new contract.

"If LeBron leaves, Wes is going to get carte blanche wherever he signs," one source said. "He?s going to have the run of the place, and he doesn?t have that in Cleveland. He has access there, but Maverick Carter is the guy with the keys there. ?[Carter?s] much more influential, and would always be in Cleveland."

Maverick Carter and the other high school friends of James would seem to prefer him to remain in Cleveland where their spheres of influence are well established.

"No one cares about those guys walking around in Chicago or Miami or New York," one league executive told Wojnarowski.

Carter controls certain people in the media and plants the stories he wants reported.  Last week, Chris Broussard of ESPN quoted Carter in breaking news about James cancelling plans to visit the cities of the teams interested in signing him this summer.

Carter tried to put together a deal where David Geffen would buy a stake in the Clippers, then James would sign to play in Los Angeles.  But owner Donald Sterling is not interested in selling a share of the team.  

Had the deal materialized, Carter would have been able to marginalize Wesley to a greater extent.

Wesley continues trying to position himself and is back urging the Knicks and Nets to deal for Chris Paul while selling the Bulls and Heat on clearing additional cap room.

Wherever James lands, Wesley will attempt to cash in from the team with payback in the form of favors for his clients.

The Los Angeles Clippers have narrowed their coaching search to current Dallas assistant coach Dwane Casey and former Chicago head coach Vinny Del Negro, sources close to the situation said on Friday.

Casey and Del Negro were the last two finalists for the Bulls job.

The most recent list circulating in the media included ESPN analyst Mark Jackson, former Minnesota coach and executive Kevin McHale, Utah assistant Tyrone Corbin and former Atlanta Hawks  head coach Mike Woodson. The Clippers also had conversations with Houston assistant Elston Turner two weeks ago.

The Clippers are still without a head coach, but that could change very soon.

Los Angeles president Andy Roeser says the team wants to have a coach in place by the start of free agency on July 1.

"By the time we get into free agency (which begins next Thursday), we should have that situation resolved," Roeser said. "We've narrowed it to a short list (of candidates) and we will be having more discussions about it shortly."

Dwane Casey, Mike Woodson and Vinny Del Negro are believed to be the top candidates.

The Thunder have drafted Eric Bledsoe for the Clippers and will receive a future first round pick in return.

Sources have confirmed that the Clippers are interested in Dallas assistant coach Dwane Casey, former Bulls coach Vinny Del Negro, former Atlanta coach Mike Woodson, former Minnesota executive and Hall of Famer Kevin McHale, and possibly ESPN's Mark Jackson, who played for the Clippers, and Utah assistant Tyrone Corbin.

McHale, who coached the Timberwolves twice on an interim basis, had informal discussions with the Bulls before they filled their coaching vacancy, and was believed to have interviewed with the Cavaliers.

The Clippers may trade their No. 8 pick to Chicago for Luol Deng and the Bulls' 17th pick, according to a source that spoke with Chris Broussard.

Broussard later spoke with a rep from one of the clubs and was told it is not going to happen.

RealGM Note: This trade could not be completed on draft night due to the Clippers needing to use their cap space to absorb Deng's contract.

According to a source that spoke with RealGM, representatives of LeBron James have denied the report from Jalen Rose on Wednesday which claimed that James was almost certain to leave the Cavaliers.  

James' representatives insisted that no decision of any sort has been made and stated that the report from Rose is inaccurate.

On his Twitter page, Rose reported that James has all but decided to depart Cleveland and had whittled his likely destinations down to Chicago, Miami and the Clippers. The report omitted the Knicks as a candidate.

Jalen Rose reports from his sources that LeBron James will almost certainly not return to the Cavaliers as a free agent.

Rose lists the Bulls, Heat and Clippers in parentheses, presumably James' likeliest destinations.