{"id":674492,"date":"2026-03-23T13:24:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T13:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/674492\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T13:24:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T13:24:19","slug":"the-cleveland-cavaliers-and-golden-state-warriors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/674492\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cleveland Cavaliers and Golden State Warriors \u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As recently as late January, not long after an ESPN report detailed so much of the dysfunction in James\u2019 relationship with the Lakers organization, the widely-held consensus around the league was that there\u2019s no way he\u2019d be back in a Lakers jersey. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/7140171\/2026\/03\/23\/lebron-james-lakers-turnaround-column\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:The Cleveland Cavaliers and Golden State Warriors were, and are, often mentioned by league executives as his most likely destinations.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;The Cleveland Cavaliers and Golden State Warriors were, and are, often mentioned by league executives as his most likely destinations.&quot;}\" class=\"link \">The Cleveland Cavaliers and Golden State Warriors were, and are, often mentioned by league executives as his most likely destinations.<\/a> But it was the lack of synergy and consistent success with James on the court, above all else, that drove this idea of an unavoidable exit. Not to mention the Father Time component, with sciatica issues costing him the first month of the regular season (when the Lakers started 10-4 without him) and questions rising about whether he could still be an impact player.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/7140171\/2026\/03\/23\/lebron-james-lakers-turnaround-column\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:New York Times;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;New York Times&quot;}\" class=\"link \">New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As recently as late January, not long after an ESPN report detailed so much of the dysfunction in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":655806,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3786],"tags":[7,193,479,164,4025,4024,300,69780,6,255],"class_list":{"0":"post-674492","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golden-state-warriors","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-cleveland-cavaliers","10":"tag-golden-state","11":"tag-golden-state-warriors","12":"tag-goldenstate","13":"tag-goldenstatewarriors","14":"tag-lakers","15":"tag-league-executives","16":"tag-nba","17":"tag-warriors"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116278713758239867","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=674492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/655806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}