Warriors trade stephen curry : The Golden State Warriors were interested in trading for Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron.

 

 

ESPN reported ahead of last season’s NBA trade deadline that the Golden State Warriors had approached the Los Angeles Lakers about a potential LeBron James deal. There were other stated reasons why such a deal never materialized, including James’ refusal to leave the Lakers.

According to a fresh rumor from NBA insider Marc Stein via Substack, James’ agent Rich Paul has ruled out a Warriors deal.

“It is believed that the Lakers would have reluctantly entertained trade conversations with the Warriors before last February’s trade deadline if James wanted them to seriously engage Golden State on a potential deal,” according to Stein. “Yet league sources say that the reported talks between the teams at the time never got that far in large part because James’ agent Rich Paul was adamantly opposed to the idea of James swapping Southern California for Northern California.”

Paul’s key reason for rejecting a James-Golden State trade was reportedly the wrath he would experience if he switched teams again.

“Sources say Paul implored both teams to scrap the concept — despite some owner-to-owner dialogue between the Warriors’ Joe Lacob and the Lakers’ Jeanie Buss and Green’s determination to lobby James to push for relocation to the Bay Area — largely because he wanted to insulate James from potential backlash over switching teams for the fourth time in his career,” according to Stein.

After witnessing the camaraderie between James and Steph Curry at the Olympics, this would have been quite the pairing.