10-11-2025, 08:50 PM
(10-11-2025, 04:17 PM)SleepingHero Wrote: Lebron gets what Lebron wants.
He'll force a trade or torpedo an already fragile LA teams' season.
I bet he will do neither.
Trading him is next-to-impossible because the other team has to give up so much value, and only gets a half-season or so in return. Layer on top the trade matching challenge for a contract that big, with the complications of so many teams being hard-capped with almost no wiggle room, and the odds are tiny he could pick the team he wants.
Frankly, if he wants to play elsewhere, he shouldn't have opted in. And he can sign somewhere else in the summer, so it's not like he has to wait that long.
I also don't buy that LBJ would play Sabotage Ball if he wanted a trade that he didn't get. That just doesn't seem like something he would do. It would kill his legacy in the NBA, as well as ruin his standing in LA. Wherever he is, I think he will play hard, assuming he is healthy.
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