[ESPN] LeBron James and Maverick Carter are reportedly assembling a group of investors to launch a basketball league that would compete with the NBA.

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  3. A 1 v 1 promotion can serve a niche. I dont see how a 5v5 league can gain any traction let alone compete with the nba.

  7. I mean, good luck. There’s not enough talent out there to have a competing league unless you’re gonna go the LIV golf route and use a disgusting country’s sportswashing funds to lure actual NBA players to whatever the hell this is.

  8. As a Lebron hater, he already destroyed the league once with his superteam bullshit, why not try again?

  9. Break every record and then make another league so no one will break your records, I see you Bron

  10. This has been known for a while. They want to make it a Formula 1 type format where it travels from city to city.

  12. Bill Simmons has been talking about this for months and Windy pretends he’s the first to report it.

  13. Saying it’ll compete with the NBA is editorializing.

    It’ll likely be an alternative in Europe and occur in the offseason. So it’s not going to openly compete with the NBA at all.

    If anything, their closest competitor would be the Euroleague, not the NBA.

  16. This happened with the ABA and then the NBA absorbed them. ~~Happened with LIV and the PGA absorbed them.~~ It’s a financial move if anything.

    EDIT: I’ve been informed LIV and the PGA are not merged. My mistake.

  22. Does “they want it to have a European flavour” mean it’s just based in Europe or they want it to have a more European-style competitive model? (I.e. promotion/relegation, etc.)

  23. Can’t imagine this going well. Look at liv, xfl or any other sports league that tried to compete against a dominant well-established sports league.

  25. Adam Silver: “I paid you a small fortune.”

    LeBron: “And this gives you LePower over me?”

  26. I wonder how it would work if they had the financial backing to poach some top NBA players and were able to do the same thing with younger talent.

    I’m saying this because unlike the NFL and MLB, it feels like most NBA fans are much more fans on individual players than they are the actual NBA teams themselves. Flagship teams like the Lakers are the exception. But beyond that it feels like a lot of NBA fans just follow their favorite players to whatever team they play for.

  33. So is even Rich Paul going to distance himself from LeBron if this goes down? Because this is going to be a line that Rich Paul cannot cross, steering any of his players to this competitor league.

  35. I’m sure there will be people really excited to see who wins the first LeBronny O’Carter trophy. I couldn’t give a flying fuck less though.

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