Report: LeBron’s agent ‘adamantly opposed’ commerce to Warriors initially appeared on NBC Sports activities Bay Space
LeBron James and Steph Curry’s Group USA pairing within the Paris Olympics this summer season solely intensified basketball followers’ want for the celebrity duo to crew up within the NBA.
Whereas that actuality stays a protracted shot, it doesn’t suggest there have not been any efforts made by the Warriors.
Golden State reportedly sought a blockbuster commerce to amass the four-time NBA MVP earlier than final 12 months’s commerce deadline, however talks did not go far.
That’s partly as a result of James’ agent, Wealthy Paul, was “adamantly opposed” to the thought of James swapping Southern California for Northern California, NBA contributor Marc Stein reported in his newest Substack, citing league sources.
Paul was hesitant about how the NBA world would understand his shopper if James left Los Angeles to affix a fourth crew in his profession.
“Sources say Paul implored each groups to scrap the idea — regardless of some owner-to-owner dialogue between the Warriors’ Joe Lacob and the Lakers’ Jeanie Buss and Inexperienced’s willpower to foyer James to push for relocation to the Bay Space — largely as a result of he needed to insulate James from potential backlash over switching groups for the fourth time in his profession,” Stein wrote.
Apart from Paul’s half in LeBron-to-the-Warriors shortly falling aside, any probabilities of that idea being any greater than a basketball lover’s dream feels much more unlikely after James’ son, Bronny James, was drafted by the Lakers this summer season and signed a four-year contract with the purple and gold.
And so long as Paul continues to be his agent, it is grow to be more and more probably that James will stay with the Lakers for the remainder of his NBA profession.
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