Question for all of you. This was asked as a question on a local radio station here in Houston, and thought it might be a fun one to ask people here. If it was offered, Would you trade Lillard, Aldridge and Batum for James?
Hmmm, how long would his contact be? 4-5 years? Yes Wes, Cj Lebron, Wright, Claver Trob, Joel Freeland Robin, Leonard FA, Mo It's a player away.......and players would want to come. LeBron is still the best in the world....
James can refuse any trade. He would say no that if the Blazers were gutted that badly. Aldridge & Batum for Lebron yes.
The difficult part to me is who you bring in afterwards. If Lebron' new deal starts at about 21 million, I think that leaves you with roughly 10 million in cap space. With no PG and no PF. ?/McCollum Wesley/Barton/Crabbe James/ Robinson/Claver Rolo/Freeland/Leonard. Yes, James is the best player in the world. But that's not a good team there. It's Cleveland level Lebron team, but, in the west instead of the east. He's got Wade nd Bosh, and he's down 3-1 to the Spurs right now. 10 million isn't likely enough to steal away Bledsoe from PHX as a RFA. Maybe you give 6-7 to Gasol, and keep Mo around, Mo/Wesley/James/Gasol/Rolo is solid. But McCollum/Barton/Robinson as your top 3 off the bench isn't too exciting.
All three players are untouchable. You'd have to find a way to trade our junk and make James a backup.
Lebron will be a free agent and isn't eligible to be traded. I think it's more likely we sign LeBron for the minimum. He makes $70 million a year off endorsements and wants to be on a super team. He's not going to any team that trades away their two, or three, best players.
If you put a 30 year old tired LeBron on this team in place of Dame LMA and Nic I don't think we make the playoffs. If we do he's so worn out the team gets whipped in the first round. This is probably the worst off-season idea I've heard.
No one is suggesting this would or ever could occur. It is strictly hypothetical. Obviously it is not realistic
All three of them? We'd be just as bad as Cleveland when James was there! Yes, we'd have the best player in the game, but obviously that means jack when he doesn't have great players around him to bail him out when he doesn't get enough potassium.
It wouldn't work. Today's stars put lifestyle over winning. Climate is the biggest factor with today's free-agents.
Which means he will probably be more than willing to accept less to bring in Melo. Will the other two?
Not all 3 id probably trade any pair out of the 3 with lillard being my least favorite piece to lose followed closely by lamarcus. We could get james to sign in portland if all the freeloading hippies would quit raising state taxes. Then he could sign a Nike deal and the 2 shoe companies could fight over which player gets the most commercials lillard or james. They could donate billions to the franchise and we could sign the western all star team minus griffin, kobe, and harden because they dont deserve to ever wear a blazer uniform. Lillard/paul/parker curry/wes james/durrant/batum lma/love/Dirk MyLe/rolo/Drummond
