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[mvossman]

My only thing with Lebron is that defensively he's a sieve now. He constantly lets back door cuts happen to him. Doesn't really move around on the perimeter. He's too old. Replacing DJJ with him seems like a mistake. 

Offensively he'd be 10x better there. But do we really need what Lebron brings when you have Luka? 

I guess one could make an argument that Lebron would be a 3rd option here and wouldn't be asked to do a lot at all. That'd give him more energy to work on defense. Hard to imagine taking not 1 but 2 steps back behind Luka and Kyrie and accept a role player role.

The defensive fit would not be ideal as he overlaps a lot with Luka, but the offensive fit would be insane.  He would be more like 1C than third option.  Hell, you could bring him off the bench to be the greatest 6th man of all time.  Regardless we wouldn't have to wear Luka into the ground both regular season and playoffs.  We also might see a friendlier whistle.  

It probably won't end up making sense due to fit, actual cost and timeline, but not much question adding a top 10/20 player into this roster wouldn't be a huge boost.