I doubt it would have happened this off season. Cleveland is probably on the phone right now with kyrie to convince him of 1 more ride with lebron and he will def do it at a chance to be in the finals again.
But, I was always eyeing next off season. When I saw jalen rose, stephen a smith, woj, and just about everyone saying it's likely lebron bounces next off season. Now kyrie in more of a position of power, so garpax should have played it like pat riley when it the wade and lebron union was inevitable. Just fall back for a season. Strip the team around jimmy so you can miss the playoffs. Take who we drafted at 16th this season, our lottery pick next off season valentine and maybe niko on a good deal and offer that to cleveland. They almost would have had no choice but to say yea to that, and you could get a 3rd team involved, but the point is if kyrie and jimmy want to unite, we should have been the team to make that happen
With wade off the books, jimmy still on his deal, could have added kyrie, had jimmy and enough for a max deal If we could have moved lopez. It's a plan I would have def got behind.