LeBron leaving after this year is pretty much inevitable right?

[AVXL]

He brought them a ring and Dan Gilbert is already making moves to drive him a way. Bron will be able to handle the PR for this move better than last time. Even when he went back to Cleveland a lot of people were speculating it wouldnt be the last move he makes.

Just still seems like a bad move to make. Above all else Bron likes to be liked. He'd be hated again in his hometown...is being hated at home worth ring chasing for a few years? Doesn't seem like it but we'll see

 

[Buckeye Fever]

Footage of him leaving Cleveland

Spoiler

"When the Lakers got a core and they got some cap room, you better run for it, run for it, RUN"

 

[Mantis Toboggan M.D.]

Just still seems like a bad move to make. Above all else Bron likes to be liked. He'd be hated again in his hometown...is being hated at home worth ring chasing for a few years? Doesn't seem like it but we'll see

He isn't gonna be happy if the team he plays on puts him in the position where the best they can do regardless of his performance is lose the finals in 5-6 games. They're capped out, have no young players ascending, have no bench, and their 2-3 behind him don't play defense with one of them being unplayable against the warriors. If they can't find a way to fix the defense and get an nba caliber bench, I don't see him staying. He's looked impatient and miserable as fukk most of the last 3 seasons with how heavy the team has relied on him and how they fall apart when he sits.

 

[Captain Crunch]

On one hand I think he leaves, on the other hand there's no team in the West that is ready to compete with him.

Spurs???
Pop getting Bron to play offball could be deadly.

 

[Ziggiy]

Just still seems like a bad move to make. Above all else Bron likes to be liked. He'd be hated again in his hometown...is being hated at home worth ring chasing for a few years? Doesn't seem like it but we'll see

"Liking to be liked" didn't stop from leaving the first time now did it

 

[tjax03]

Bron to the Lakers makes zero sense.

He would play the warriors 4 times instead of two.

They are in the same pacific division and there is even more of a chance he even makes the playoffs on that team.


Lebron would be best to stay east and try to get guys like anthony davis, cousins, giannis to team up with him

 

[Trece]

He's gonna come to the Lakers because his Space Jam 2 contracts says he needs to be in LA full time while making the movie.

Bron knows he can't beat the Warriors, he's gonna take his 3 rings, go to LA, and build up his production company with his boys.

They still really trying to go through with this movie using Bron?

 

[yeyeye]

Le3/5 ain't going west. He gotta stay in that worm invested shyt hole they call Cleveland. You know he regrets leaving south beach

that celtic salt

 

[NatiboyB]

nikkas want a team that is a virtual lock for the finals to blow it up Even though the warriors are better why not take your chances instead of going back to being irrelevant like the pre Bron years

it's not that we want them to blow it up...Just put a little more effort in trying to improve the team and find a GM/President of Basketball Operations.

 

[10bandz]

Just still seems like a bad move to make. Above all else Bron likes to be liked. He'd be hated again in his hometown...is being hated at home worth ring chasing for a few years? Doesn't seem like it but we'll see

Well personally and from the rumors I've been hearing, Bron to the Lakers won't be a ring chasing move it'd be a business move (space jam 2 + other hollywood shyt). He knows he can't be the dubs as currently constructed.

If Bron leaves Cleveland he could effectively be saying "I got my 3 rings, I can't beat the Warriors in cleveland, time to set up my retirement in LA".

Theres no team he can go to that gives him an automatic Finals spot like Cleveland.

 

[BigMoneyGrip]

The Cavs 2017 offseason has been absolutely abysmal. Whatever moves they have left to make, even if they were to happen, won't put them over the top (LOL @ the idea of Melo being the key to beating the Dubs.) No one can convince me he's going to stay on this dumpster fire of a roster when he's only got a solid 4-5 years left.

It's over

 

[JackRoss]

The real question is who cares if he leaves. He's done it before so I don't find it to be a big deal if he does it again

Bron coming to the Bulls to chase the GOAT

 

[Rekkapryde]

he'd be a fool to leave the trash east

 

[Kairi Irving]

Well personally and from the rumors I've been hearing, Bron to the Lakers won't be a ring chasing move it'd be a business move (space jam 2 + other hollywood shyt). He knows he can't be the dubs as currently constructed.

If Bron leaves Cleveland he could effectively be saying "I got my 3 rings, I can't beat the Warriors in cleveland, time to set up my retirement in LA".

Theres no team he can go to that gives him an automatic Finals spot like Cleveland.

Him mentoring Lonzo is something I'd like to see, and who knows what if 2-3 seasons of Bron in LA they somehow make the finals

Win it all, Bron retires and Lonzo has a Chip (possibility of being the FMVP) Bron would be like Shaq and Lonzo is Wade