Let's say the Lakers & Bron mutually agree to seek a trade this offseason, where does he land ?

[Stop_It_5]

- James is an unrestricted free agent in 2023.
- His contract doesn’t include a no-trade clause, and he’s owed $44 million next year.
- With Westbrook ($47M) on the books for one more year, the Lakers have no draft capital to help sweeten a deal — NOLA has the rights to their picks over the next four years
- James is eligible for a two-year extension worth $97.1 million

Assume Jeanie, Pelinka and Bron all mutually agree to rip the bandaid off a year early instead of dragging it out, who wins the bid and what's the return for a one year rental of Bron ?

Cleveland Part 3 ? Reunion with Riley in Miami ? One year Mega-Powers experiment with Steph in Golden State ? One year run with CP3 trying to get Phoenix over that hump ?

 

[MyApps]

Poll?

 

[jdubnyce]

Out of conference for sure
Cleveland seems like the fairy tale ending


Or Toronto

 

[Renegade47]

knicks

 

[Supa]

If he switches teams again

 

[DrexlersFade]

knicks

Too play with Thibs

Cleveland is the logical answer

 

[Ohene]

as a Warriors fan hell no. That would not make any sense

 

[CHICAGO]

If he switches teams again

IF?

HE SPENT THE WHOLE
WEEKEND PLANTING SEEDS
FOR HIS EVENTUAL DEPARTURE.

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[CantStop]

Send him to the Kings

 

[Regular_P]

@Gil Scott-Heroin knows the Warriors are inevitable here. They have the best young assets out of all the contenders and Wiggins' contract to make the salaries match.

 

[Bryan Danielson]

If he switches teams again

If? He said 4-5 years ago that he wanted to play with Bronny and kept that same consistent message since.

That’s why I don’t understand why people are so flabbergasted or act like this is some major new news.

Especially the folks that over analyze every word that comes out his mouth

 

[collateral.]

He should of never had left Cleveland the 2nd time in the first place. I was against it then and i'm still salty about it now. I get the team at the time was a crumbling but he should of rode that out. He probably wouldn't had have won chip #4, but folks barely respect that chip, regardless. Lebron in a Cavs uniform is the most iconic form of LeBron hands down.

 

[O.T.I.S.]

Cleveland the only place probably willing to take him back at this point.

After this Lakers fiasco, no team really will be willing to trade all their young assets away for a dude pushing 40 and has been leaving teams destroyed every time he decides to move on… especially if they’re contenders with their young core.

 

[Osmosis]

Lebron will never be force a trade. The only way he gets traded is if Jeanie has the balls to do it... If not, he just leaves when his contract is up.

 

[Remote]

Cleveland makes sense if he’s a free agent.

It doesn’t make sense if it’s a trade because the pieces LA would likely receive are precisely the pieces Lebron would need to win.

It’s probably too late to go to the Knicks and win there. That franchise is far too much of a mess. But in a storybook ending kind of way, that might be the ideal situation…if he somehow went out like an older Mark Messier…out of his prime to deliver a title to a long suffering franchise. To be clear, it would never happen. I’m just saying.