« Reply #63 on: November 18, 2017, 09:15:25 PM »
This is a very hard question. Everyone assumed the lakers, but I just cant see him going there if theres no chance they can win, and with Lonzo, Ingrham and Free Agnet Star X I don't see them being truly competitive. Say what you want about Lebron, and I do find him insufferable, he's always gone where he stands the best chance of winning and chasing Jordan. For that reason phili doesn't quite make sense either, as simmons and embiid are still probably a couple of years away form peak and tying your career to joel embiids injury history seems dangerous. Going west doesn't eem t make sense, but there really no team in the east that is close enough to entice him and can actually pay him. I said spurs, because why not?
Because the Spurs won't have anywhere close to 35% Max cap space. Very few teams will.
That's the other problem. Most teams won't have cap space to sign Lebron UNLESS he took a huge discount.
Even the Lakers could actually have some trouble fitting in Lebron AND Free Agent X if the cap goes a little down (as projected), unless the Lakers decide to trade away BOTH Randle + Clarkson (and rumor has it that they are already likely to deal Randle at the deadline for a 1st round pick to also clear up some cap for the summer).
And I say that because Lebron is ONLY joining the Lakers if another max FA star joins him in LA, otherwise he's not going there alone to team up with Lonzo The Great lol.
They've got to get rid of Deng too which is not going to be easy.
Right, completely forgot about that too.
I wish OKC were doing fairly well honestly, because then PG13 would likely stay and that's another FA Lakers fans could cross off their list.
But OKC haven't looked great and George could still decide to leave now..
I think OKC will be fine. With those 3 it was always going to take a bit to mesh. Similar to when LBJ went to miami
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