Like everything it depends on the numbers and what role he wants.
I’m probably the furtherest thing from a Lebron fan, but if he agrees to a single year deal as a free agent, (or 1 plus team option, or 2nd year partially/non-garaunteed- if he wants 2 years then I would want to cut the money down a fair bit), then I would be really happy with throwing a bucket of short-term money at him.
It basically becomes a short term loan that doesn’t hurt our flexibility in ’25 or ’26, and doesn’t use up any future assets. A year to have a free swing with Lebron/Wemby as our one and two, make a bit of a playoff push but without huge championship expectations (but you wouldn’t rule anything out), and a year for all of our young guys to learn alongside Lebron.
But – it would need to be with an expectation from that we aren’t giving him a dumb long-term contract, and we also aren’t giving up future assets/cap space to throw everything into the win now basket like he has gotten other teams to do. He can’t be LeGM, and he needs to know he is here to support/lead the young guys, not to the true ball dominant guy all of the time.
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I’m pretty sure there’s a picture out there of Kd I believe from when he was young with a Gervin jersey also
I’ll always upvote this pic, but no.
https://preview.redd.it/e23i9chfujxc1.jpeg?width=1452&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=689da816cf8a7a2b08f0c5dfd09e052c6c9fece2
I’m sorry, but no💀
Yeah, nah.
Like everything it depends on the numbers and what role he wants.
I’m probably the furtherest thing from a Lebron fan, but if he agrees to a single year deal as a free agent, (or 1 plus team option, or 2nd year partially/non-garaunteed- if he wants 2 years then I would want to cut the money down a fair bit), then I would be really happy with throwing a bucket of short-term money at him.
It basically becomes a short term loan that doesn’t hurt our flexibility in ’25 or ’26, and doesn’t use up any future assets. A year to have a free swing with Lebron/Wemby as our one and two, make a bit of a playoff push but without huge championship expectations (but you wouldn’t rule anything out), and a year for all of our young guys to learn alongside Lebron.
But – it would need to be with an expectation from that we aren’t giving him a dumb long-term contract, and we also aren’t giving up future assets/cap space to throw everything into the win now basket like he has gotten other teams to do. He can’t be LeGM, and he needs to know he is here to support/lead the young guys, not to the true ball dominant guy all of the time.