The Cleveland Cavaliers reportedly reached out to the Los Angeles Lakers about bringing LeBron James
YouTube, JG Bull, coming up, uh, coming up next or now on the Ultimate Cleveland sports show. There were some rumors that surfaced, uh, surfaced over the weekend that the Cleveland Cavaliers was one of 4 teams that checked in on a possible trade. LeBron James. Now we don’t know how accurate that is, but hypothetically, let’s say if the rumors is true, would you make the trade and then he flips out of this, uh, if he’s bought out, you’re bringing him back to Cleveland, how would that look like? What, who, who’s involved in the trade? You tell me. Oh, OK, so I don’t care who’s involved in the trade. Bring them back. Run it back. So hold on, so, so hold on. Does that mean you don’t care if it’s ever Mobley included? You had to do that. Yeah, see, listen, I had to pay you back off the hit you with that. Here’s my off touch off limits, guys. All right, Donovan Mitchell, Evan Mobley, everybody else who you want, OK, you want the, I don’t even know that the Cavs could trade for him based on the cap. I don’t even know if that’s possible. I don’t think it is. I mean, they go, they’d have to pay the tax. But Dan Gilbert did a weird thing two weeks ago when he sold 15% of his interest in the Cavs. He might have just said, OK, this is my, this is my piggy bank to pay my tax. Let’s make a run. I don’t know how all these the cap works and all this stuff, and I don’t even know if it’s trade for LeBron, but I’ll say this. If you’re one of those people, it’s like, I wanna win without LeBron, you’re an idiot. I mean, come on. When they get their ring, it won’t say NBA champs Astrik with LeBron. I don’t care. — I always compare
— still one of the 10 best players in the league. I think if we have a second parade, people are gonna go, you know, this is cool, but it would have been a lot better if we did it without LeBron. Some people is crazy. I like when you look at it, like we used to do this exercise in school about how much, about how much money you make over. Your lifetime and you, you look up and you say, man, I got $2 million I made in my lifetime and my entire life working for all these odds and end jobs. No one looks at themselves when they’re 67, 68 and say, man, I’m so glad I worked for that. I would have rather my father gave that to me. I would have rather, I, I wanna be a trust fund baby. I don’t wanna work for what I got. Matter of Fact, if I hit the lottery, great, I’m gonna take that. No one cares how you got it as long as you get it. Tim said it. He’s like, Listen, they wanna win a ring. Like I was glad he was so definitive with that answer. I like that. I like that. I do too because Jason has said every time this comes up, Jason has said, no, Dan wants one without LeBron. OK, ask Dan this. Would you rather try and fail and not win one without LeBron, or would you rather roll the dice and try to win another with LeBron? Smart Money says roll the dice. Bring him back. He’s still one of the best players in the league. As I get older and and you start to see there’s little things that tell you about your mortality. You look around, sometimes you may lose. A friend, you know, your father gets older. You look at your niece. Another brown clicks away and you don’t have anything to show for your niece, your niece comes into the room. You’re like, bro, I remember you was, you was a baby this small and now you’re grown like this is messed up. My thing is, bro, I, I, I gotta win at all costs, man. And and you ain’t got no time if you Dan Gilbert. I mean you you like, man, I didn’t have some health issues and, and, you know, look, I, I’d have been a great businessman. I took my company public. It’s only so many vacations you can get to. It’s only so many bags your wife can have. There’s only so many cars you could drive. What you truly remember when you get older is this the times you had with really good friends and you and you and you did things and you won at the highest level. Nothing like winning nothing nothing like winning and as great as winning is on the, on the, the, the scale of greatness, yeah, I always say this, I hate losing more than I love winning and, and to me. Winning it all is all the way over here on the end of the spectrum, but when you lose in the way the Cavs have lost, it actually exceeds how it’s harder to lose that way than sometimes it is to celebrate a victory. Just win and look, can you imagine the vibe in Cleveland today if the news broke that LeBron was coming back to end his career here. The city would be on fire, guys. It would go bananas. There would be restaurants that aren’t currently on 4th pop up on 4th. — They’d be like because of
— the Lebronomy. Oh well, he, he drives the economy on 4th. — Bring him
— back. Mayor Bibb would be like, Oh listen, we the whole little the Browns, that little stadium whatever. LeBron. You know what we’re gonna put where the Brown stadium used to be? The largest monument in the world, the LeBron monument right there. And, and LeBron, this is a crazy thing too. I think he lost, I think LeBron got demoralized because he really felt like in LA that was gonna be a nice ride off to the sunset and he quickly realized. It’s a different culture. You’re not Kobe. You’re not magic. You’re not Shaq. You’re not Jerry West. It’s not gonna happen. And so the championship he brought them. It wasn’t the same as it was the COVID season was it wasn’t the same, and they told you and then they moved the goalpost on you. You became the all-time leader scorer, and I thought he thought that was gonna be a great celebration and people was like, who cares? You’re still not better than Michael, but you still got an opportunity, LeBron. You still got a chance to get you a couple more rings. If you the all-time when you score and get top 5 in assists and get top 20 in rebounds, you got all the records and you get 2 more rings, it’s not debatable. Just one. So listen, I would set him for 1 and he get one more. See what I’m saying is that they got a window because look, you’re. You’re not gonna, you’re not gonna be able to keep Darius Garland, Evan Mobley, and Donovan Mitchell anyway. That’s the thing that ain’t nobody saying out loud. Mitchell’s contract is you got 2 more years, 2 more. They got 2 years to, to do. I agree. — You got 2 years
— if you bring him back for a 2-year deal. Come on, man. Come on, man. The question is what he signed for minimum money. He’s a. Billionaire now. I mean, to me, you guys are always yelling at me to take every dollar. I know, no, but at some point, well, and you, I love your point about he’ll never be king of LA. Never. There are some that will say he’ll never be king of Cleveland because he came and he went twice and he won 1. If he comes back and he runs it back in. The 10 year anniversary of their first championship. Do we get Kyrie back too? Bring him back. Bring him back. I mean, think about that. If, if he were to come back next season, this is 10 years since they won the championship, and he does it again. He is forever king of Cleveland. You, you raised your boys. You, you, you went to Sierra Canyon. They one is in the league. You got that all. The other one is going to Arizona. He’ll be in the, listen. You, you’ve done a great job. Finish your breakfast. Finish your career the right way. Do not go around playing around and waiting on Luca. You can come back and still win again and so and and finish what you started. So I’m clip this and send that to LeBron. Finish what you started, man. — You can still get
— down there with a half smile on his face. You want a back or not, Earl. It’s hard to say no to LeBron James, OK. He is an NBA champion. He’s an MVP and his basketball IQ is through the roof. When you talk about this team being able to get over the hump and get past that, that second round, I just think somebody that’s seen damn near everything that you can see in 2021 years of NBA can help you now by all public. I’m reading, it says the only way that the Cleveland Cavaliers is interested is via a buyout. Now, if it’s bought out, hell yeah, absolutely come back, you run it back and then you don’t have to lose anything. But even if it came down to a situation to we, where we had to trade for it, if I’m not trading Donovan Mitchell or Evan Mobley. Then I’m all for it because the reality is we sat here and talk that nauseam. You can’t keep running the back trying to do the same thing over. That’s the definition of working. So like if it’s not Donovan Mitchell or Evan Mobley, then I’m interested. Does he have a chance to surpass Donovan Mitchell as the greatest cavalier ever? Oh well, no, you, I mean it’s funny, funny. He be a funny guy, man. It’s LeBron to go, by the way, congratulations to Donovan Mitchell and Courtney Jones, man, him and his, uh, they got, they got engaged. — Oh wonderful
— Fiancee now, so it was a whole bunch of engagements going on. Very good. This is the engagement season for the NBA and wedding season. Do I do it off offseason? I, I will say this, and, and you take, you take a look at what Donovan Mitchell and he sat there. After that game and he lost. You don’t think that he would be ecstatic to play with LeBron? And by the way, LeBron, you got somebody on your team that got that mentality. You got a dog already on your team. You, you was able to move mold and, and switch people around. You got a dog in, in Donovan Mitchell who can carry you down. He could be a closer. So you know what you did with Kyrie, right? You got a dude that’s still got that mentality plus you got a guy in every Mobley that’s a defensive player of the year. Come on, bro. You ain’t even got to be playing that hard defensively during the season. Come on. Let’s come on back. Unfortunately, I don’t think this is very realistic, but, uh, I, I mean, you’d be crazy enough to talk about on July 14 days. He came home to Cleveland the first, the second time when he came back. It was July 11th. So we’re in that summer was nuts. Oh, it was crazy. It was crazy, crazy, and it it’s, and you know, more than anything, you know what LeBron likes he likes attention. — He
— loves adulation and, and he doesn’t get it in LA. In LA, he’s just one of many in Cleveland. — He’s the big
— fish. Can you imagine, can you imagine how rejuvenated you? That’s the reason people go to high school reunions. And then I, I’ve already got, I’ve already got an ad campaign. You, you signed Miles Garrett, Jose Ramirez, and LeBron James to do, I don’t care what the product is, the faces of Cleveland. You just bring those three together. How fun would that be to see those in one, those 3 guys in one place at one time? Come on, make it happen. I got an idea. Make it happen. LeBron. Sherwin Williams need to get with somebody, do a dope commercial, right, of them painting a mural, but it kind of goes in and out of different moments of the big 3’s careers. You’re talking about it’s coming together. You start getting the mural and and you know what the tagline is paint your own masterpiece. There you go. And then it shows the Cheryl Jones building downtown Cleveland all built up in glass. It’s beautiful. And then you see rolling down the street in the Maybach. The window creeps down the curtain and all you and all you see is. Hey man, I like that little mirror up there. — Maybe
— I could be up there one day. That’s right. Don’t steal that. — Holler at
— your boy. You can have it. Just make it happen. Hey, listen, boy, — we would be on cloud
— 10, tight shots of all three painting, and you don’t know what they’re painting, you just see that they’re all painting. And, and they’re they’re a little banter back and forth as they’re painting and then the end shot is you pull out and you see what they painted was the mural on the building on the brick building, and it’s Josey, Miles, and LeBron, and they’re all standing there painting all over him, looking at it going, guys, we did pretty well. Paint your own masterpiece, Sherwin Williams. LeBron Jose Miles. UCSA UCSS needs some type of, uh, — some kickback we just
— came, we just came, we just wrote the ad for Sherwin Williams. All the someone’s gotta make it happen. Someone’s gotta bring LeBron.
Should the Cleveland Cavaliers trade whatever is necessary to bring LeBron James back to Cleveland?
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24 comments
Cavs absolutely did not call about Bron,nobody is paying 53 million for a 41 year old drama queen
I'd LOVE to have Lebron back! That would be BEYOND amazing! But can't get rid of Mobley or Mitchell to do so…..
❤DON’T steal that! What a conversation, about Possibility! Way to Pay it forward, this is what sports does it inspires.
The Cavaliers are nothing without LeBron. That was true before he got drafted and it's true now.
The Cavaliers would not be calling if it was not realistic
Holy shit… these guys are professional sports reporters, yet have no idea how the NBA cap rules work..? Jay Crawford saying “they’d have to pay the tax”… THEY ARE ALREADY WELL OVER THE LUXURY TAX THRESHOLD!!! The would actually need to REDUCE total salary to make a LeBron trade work! It’s one thing to have MAYBE been a little unfamiliar with the rules / possible scenarios a few weeks ago, but how the hell can you possibly be this uninformed after endless conversations about it?
Why are y'all the face of radio. So you rather trade 40-year-old getting rid of their is Garland two-time All-Star Jared Allen at one time all star and a great wing and Hunter. The LeBron retires and you left with nothing why do y'all have to be on our radio sports talk y'all make zero sense I love LeBron more than anybody. I had season tickets for 4 years but this isn't smart at all you're thinking so spontaneously its not a smart thing to do if he gets bought out yes. Seriously this is why we only get a thousand views on this show. Bad common sense guys!!
Why do people value Evan Mobley so much. He has the softest hands. He’s not aggressive. He doesn’t account for points outside of his. Donovan as well. But I’d trade Evan lol but I think they sign LeBron after this last deal he is on.
Guys the LeBron talk is beyond pathetic at this point, let it Go that era ended a long time ago
Don't want him back…
Sign over 5 percent to LeBron, win- win.
They would have to give to much.i wouldn't trade.i think it would fuck the team up
A Garland-Bron exchange would be ideal. Upgrade at Point. Unsure if the Cavs have anything to make this work though.
Guys, the Cavaliers are still in the 2nd apron, meaning that it’s very difficult for them to made any trades.
Vet minimum. Nothing else. No trade.
Do NOT bring LeBron back. Too much money, too old, he'll take over the staff, and he'll destroy the chemistry we've spent years building. I'd rather not take the gamble of our team imploading. Having Bron in your lineup, doesnt equal a better shot at winning a chip. It's not 2016 anymore He's 40.
I think people are crazy in the head to think that 41 year old Lebron on the Cavs even guarantees a trip to the finals let alone beating whoever comes out of the west. This dream died for me the day he exercised his player option. The only way it would've made sense from a financial and personnel perspective is if he'd opted out and signed for the vet minimum so we could keep our core intact. I get why he opted in, he'd be leaving max money on the table, but gutting our core even for 35 year old LeBron on a one year rental would be a massive mistake.
The only way I'd support this is if the Lakers bought him out and he signed with the Cavs on a discount.
It's not possible under the 2nd apron. It also doesn't make sense for the Cavs to give up young rising talent for what could amount to 1 year of 40 year old LeBron. If he somehow gets bought out, then Hell yeah!
We can't win anything with Garland and Allen AND he'd be coming off the books in a year.
Do we have a better chance with Bron or Garland and Allen?
The LeBronomy 🔥
He's coming back. The white hat told us so.
The lakers would love to have jarett allen and hunter. This deal could and should happen.
I’d love LeBron to come back
I’d love to have LeBron back but I want to win a championship without him too.