In these situations, it would be the team with the number 1 pick next year or the highest chance. Packaged with a bunch of other draft picks, potentials on rookie contracts and expirings. But it would start with next years number 1 pick
LeBron obviously won't be traded before free agency. I could see him leaving via sign & trade to a team over the cap, in which case the answer would be "whichever team LeBron wants to play for". Which would probably come down to Houston or Indiana. I don't see LeBron coexisting with CP3 or KD. I bet he would pick the Rockets, because Houston is warmer and has a bigger market, and LeBron has too much animosity built up against the Pacers.
The concept of a hypothetical question seems to be lost on you. Nobody advocated trading him. The whole thread is really about "For grins and giggles, just imagine the impossible, trading Lebron, what is the best deal out there?" a hypothetical question it requires imagination Such as "For grins and giggles, just imagine the impossible, that Sactown had a brain, would he still be a Heat bandwagoner?"
The asking price would likely be similar to the one for Kobe in the pre-Gasol era. If memory serves me correct, it was something like a young player with potential, a superstar, and like two or three first rounders. Don't see how any team could do it.
Paul George. Some of you guys are hilarious and overrate the crap out of him. Durant/WB is there only choice you make but I can possibly see OKC turning it down considering that Durant has a lot more years on him and is the type of player whose effectiveness will only limit him much less as he gets older. He relies on his height and killer jumper. The dude doesn't even have a quick first step...teams are just scared he will take the step back jumper and nail it because he hits it at a high clip. Lebron is easily the best complete player on the planet and will be for a couple more years.
Not very much, he is an expiring contract and can leave this summer, I'd guess slighty more than what Orlando got for Dwight.
only Chicago could do it...time machine to bring back 29 year Michael Jordan...straight up for lebron =)
I don't see okc trading their two best players for LBJ. I could see Houston having a chance work Miami if it was LBJ&Wade(fillers) for Harden/Parsons/Howard. Pacers would have a shot with George/Hibbert and fillers too for LBJ straight up.
Not to get too off-topic but... I guess it's easy to sit back now and say it's not much but {apparently} he wasn't going for much back then. As ESPN.com reported on Saturday, the Lakers have asked for Deng, {Tyrus} Thomas, guard Ben Gordon and rookie Joakim Noah as the core parts of any trade for Bryant. But you had conflicting reports about the Bulls' willingness to include Deng in the deal and Kobe didn't want Deng in the deal ... and the rest is history, ha. And Cuban claimed he thought he had a deal to acquire Kobe {that same year--2007} but Dirk wasn't included. {So you were looking at some combination of Jason Terry, Jerry Stackhouse, Devin Harris, Erick Dampier and/or Josh Howard.}
I've been here regularly. How's the Heat bandwagon? Did you become a Red Sox Fan last fall? Are you trying to decide if you are either a Seahawks or Broncos fan now, and you'll let us know at about 10:30 on Sunday?
Damnit Bill Simmons!!! It was his Book Of Basketball that gave me that amount. Although, in a desperate attempt to regain any lost prestige, you could argue that both Tyrus Thomas and Joakim Noah were considered "young guys with potential" and that Deng AND 2007 Gordon combined equal a value somewhat similar to that of a superstar. However, I definitely overestimated what Kobe was worth.
