LeBron Could Be Warriors Bound 👀
Could LeBron James really end up with the Golden State Warriors? 👀We break down the latest rumors, what a LeBron-Curry pairing could look like, and why this move could send the sports card market into a frenzy. From LeBron rookie cards to the potential impact on the Lakers, Warriors, and the hobby, we cover everything you need to know.
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Lebron James is no longer going to be with the Lakers, it appears.
Uh- So he said he will play next year, but not for the Lakers.
Probably, it sounds like the Warriors.
Do you, is there any chance that this is all to It's a negotiating tactic?
'Cause it just- No seems crazy to me.
For the Lakers?
Well, for, for him to try and get something more from the Lakers.
Because- No it seems crazy to me that you've got your son on the team finally, it was like such a big deal.
Got his contract guaranteed now too.
And then now he's gonna leave and leave his son.
You know, maybe he's realizing what the rest of us realize.
This kid stinks.
Yeah, it's, he's not very good.
Yeah.
He's like, "Yeah, well, we can give it a shot."
I mean, he's fine.
But yeah.
no, I, I think he's just leaving.
Yeah.
Okay.
Yep.
This is what he does.
He's very vocal when he makes moves.
Okay.
He made the big announcement back in the day.
This, this is him.
I will say the rumor as of right now is the Warriors.
I will just tell you, if that's the case, that'd be awesome.
Why do you- Ju- And, and I don't even know if it would work on the court, but we have months before the next season.
Yeah.
I said this earlier, LeBron's rookie market has, it- it's been insane.
We got a message, matter of fact, on Instagram from a guy who was like, "Dude, I sold that card during the playoff run when you told me to for, like, 4,500."
Mm-hmm.
Now it's, like, 6 or 7,000.
That has been the case across the board.
I have two or three LeBron rookies, I looked them up in my collection this morning.
Yeah.
Same exact thing.
LeBron stuff is, like, way up, and I don't really know why.
Not like they had a great ending to the season.
Well, did you see he just had a record sale on Sunday with Golden?
That's what I'm saying.
That, it's his 2003-04 Exquisite- Yep just sold for 2.4 million, and, as a- That has been the- BGS 9.5 that's been the trend though.
All of his stuff, and like, rookie stuff especially.
Mm-hmm.
And so here's my thing.
I, let's just hyp- be hypothetical for a minute.
Let's say he goes to Golden State.
Okay.
I don't know if that works.
Like, I, I don't know any So, so let's just, again, let, let's just play the game.
Can we, can we be, just be hy- hypothetical for a second here?
You wanna hyp- hypothethonize?
Let's just do it.
Let's hypothethonize this.
You know, what's gonna stop us?
So you got Steph- so Steph Curry.
Go ahead.
I love.
Getting older.
Greatest shooter of all time, but getting older, right?
Like, that's not a great team as it's constituted.
Yep.
Does adding LeBron to that current roster do much for you?
I don't think it does.
Yeah.
It makes them better, but, like, the problem you're gonna run into in the West, I think, is you've got a couple young teams that are running gun teams.
Yeah.
Like, dude, OKC runs nine guys deep and they sprint the whole frigging floor.
Yeah.
Like, that team runs and plays great team defense.
the Spurs, who almost won the championship, their average age is, like, 16.
Those guys do nothing but run.
They play seven, eight deep.
I don't know that you're competing with those two.
I think Minnesota, quite frankly, is better.
I don't love LaMelo, but I think on that team it Okay.
Point being, I don't even know if that team works on court together.
Mm-hmm.
What I do know, though, is immediately there will be hype if that gets announced.
And maybe it gets announced before this show even comes out.
Yep.
LeBron and Curry together.
That is more substantial than anything they will do on the court together, in my opinion.
And just, I, I s- It's, people are gonna go nuts I think I know the answer to this.
There's no chance- Then don't ask the question.
There's no chance he goes to Miami, right?
Because they have just got- I, I was wondering about that too.
I don't know the, the cap situation there at all.
Yeah.
But that would be wild.
Like, so like him with Giannis and- But that's like two big men.
Like, do you need that much, I don't know.
They could play together.
It'd be fine.
Yeah.
Okay.
But again, I just LeBron is not I mean, he, he had a great season for a 41-year-old last year.
Yeah.
He's gonna be 42 in December.
Like, I just, this is not when he went to Miami as the greatest player on the planet.
Yes.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
This is v- far different from that.
Now, they're also talking potentially you can try to bring Anthony Davis over.
Anthony Davis sucks.
Like, that guy's made of glass.
I, I wouldn't waste anything on I would much rather have Jimmy Butler on that team than Anthony Davis.
Well, and the fact is, like, LeBron being the age that he is, I feel like we're just, like, one good shove away from, like, an injury that ends it.
I don't, I mean- Maybe.
Yeah, I mean, it's, yeah, I mean- I, he's, things are getting, but- As a fellow 40-year-old baller, I just tore my calf, non-contact injury.
Brutal.
That's what I'm saying.
Of course, I brought myself back.
But it's just, it- I didn't cry about it like LeBron it's not him in his prime, obviously, but it, again, if you've got Curry on there, I mean- He's excellent.
Yeah.
Maybe it wo- and a- and again, maybe it works and it's just this great run, and if it even happens, awesome.
I just think if that gets announced, immediately the hype is just out of control.
This- 'Cause him an- him and Curry are united.
So what happens to Luka's market?
So that's the other part of this.
I do wonder, and I don't know the answer to this, what is the, what is the Lakers' cap situation?
Alan, you might actually know.
Alan's a Lakers guy.
I would love to know what their cap situation is.
Mm-hmm.
But then who's even out there at this point?
Yeah.
Who are you bringing in?
I think that- Like, you, you didn't get it done with LeBron.
Yeah.
The rest of that team is Yeah.
Well, Alan, you can speak to this.
What's, what's- No, they Yeah, I mean, they just maxed out Austin Reaves.
So, and Luka obviously- is maxed where he is.
Is that the worst max deal of all time?
So the rumor mill is Austin's still- Austin Reaves is getting max money?
He's so nice.
Austin Reaves could be an HPA- Here's the, here's the, uh- for this podcast in about six months.
Here's, here's the irony, is that he got pushed to a higher level because the Pistons were supposedly bidding for him, and now the Lakers apparently are going after Jalen Duren, their big man.
I like Jalen.
Again, it's not really gonna help the Lakers long term.
But, but the reality is is that Jaylen Brown is still out there, right?
So that's the name that keeps floating.
So if you're looking at can you package a bunch of players- Boston's looking for young players.
They're looking for draft picks.
And clearly he's not gonna finish up in Boston at this point, he's gonna go somewhere else.
It's, the rumor is he's also maybe could go to Charlotte because LaMelo Ball's gone.
But for the Lakers right now, they have to figure out a rebuild, right?
And LeBron, the reality is LeBron wanted max money.
He wanted $50 million.
Ugh.
So I don't think the Lakers were gonna pay him that.
And now they can clear Bronny off the books, they can trade him in a package deal as well.
yeah, I just don't know who you even bring in.
And even the Jaylen Brown thing, I mean, I, I would hope the Celtics aren't dumb enough to do that.
Yeah.
Like, it was one thing to bring back Giannis.
Yeah.
Like, I think the Celtics are still ready to compete.
But either way, I, I just, I, I think the LeBron news is bigger.
I think the biggest impact in the hobby comes when he and, if and when he announces he's going to the Warriors, period.
Okay.
Doesn't matter what they do, 'cause I don't think they're ever gonna live up to that hype.
Sure.
But it's, oh, LeBron and Curry together, it j- it just creates this unbelievable, dynamic hobby duo, hobby buzz.
Okay.
All right.
That's it.
I mean- I got, I got a hobby question.
So of all, of all the teams LeBron- Yep could go to, would the most value in LeBron's cards be- No Cleveland, since that's where his rookie se- No where everything started?
Warriors.
Absolutely, it's the Warriors, yeah.
Really?
His Cleveland stuff already has a massive premium 'cause it's a rookie, but I don't want him, no one wants him in Cleveland right now.
Oh.
Plus, that team's not really that great.
And if you do it, you gotta move I mean, you'd have to move at least- Mobley and who, I mean, however, whoever else you got.
Oh, no, not Mobley.
No, it's- Scotty Barnes no, no, because he could sign for the mid-level- Mobley?
No exemption if he wants to.
It's up to him.
He'll sign somewhere else.
Um- I always get Mobley and Scotty Barnes confused.
You got- Mobley plays for the Cavs.
No, no, you've got Mobley.
Yeah.
Scotty Barnes plays for the Raptors.
You've got Jaden Ivey, you've got Mobley.
They, they just restructured Harden's deal, and you've also got- Harden obviously, Donovan Mitchell Donovan Mitchell was the buy-back.
So that's a pretty good four, fortunately there.
I like Mitchell.
That's who I was thinking of.
James Harden is a puke with too much facial hair.
Why don't you use Harry's?
I don't like that team.
Yeah, and you have to move something big to get him over there, 'cause he's not gonna sign for no money.
Yeah, I think the Warriors is the biggest I think the- Well- The Warriors, I guess the I mean, the Celtics would actually be massive in the hobby.
Oh, well, yeah, I mean, yeah, just because- It's a good team.
Like, if they go, he goes to the Knicks.
If he goes so- either, A, the Warriors, or B, a team that is now a front runner to com- con- con- to contend with him there.
So- Like, the Knicks or something, which I don't, there's no world that happens.
My only thinking is- I, I say it's Warriors or Cavs.
I think those are the two.
'Cause Cavs, at least he can go home.
His mom lives there.
Bronnie can go with him, see your grandson play.
Like, there's- Honestly- there's sentimental value, and I don't think it's a small thing that's what I was thinking.
I think it has some I think there's going to The factor of where he's going to be located is a big factor in all of this.
You wanna be living in Cleve- actually, Cleveland downtown's awesome.
I mean, well, and it's- I've been to Cleveland if he's got family there, and the fact that you're already in California, you live there, you're just gonna be a little further north.
You, he probably already has a place up in San Francisco.
Yeah, I, I could see- Interesting definitely one of those two, but it is, who knows?
Sounds like Warriors.
If the money's right.
Well, no, the money can't be right in Cleveland.
That's the point.
Like, he would have to make nothing to go there, which maybe he would.
By the way- Yeah that's what you do.
Like, at that age Stop playing footsie with me, you freaking pervert.
Is that your foot?
Yeah.
He went under the thing- Oh so I went over the top, then you put that gargantuan toe over the top.
Sorry about that.
I'm just trying to stretch my legs, bro.
Ugh, cut 'em off.
okay.
Be gone soon anyways.
So there you go.
We'll keep you posted if something happens with him, but for right now, not going back to the Lakers.
while we're still- And Kawhi, by the way, was the other weird one, real quick.
There was rumors Kawhi may try to go back to Toronto, which would be freaking awesome.
I actually love, I would love to see Toronto go get Kawhi.
