Several insiders suggest LeBron James‘ tweet supporting Kyrie Irving was James’ way of signaling he wants the Nets star on the Lakers, per Zach Lowe of ESPN.
This followed a story by Bleacher Report’s Chris Haynes that indicated James and other players are nudging the Lakers’ front office to make a major trade.
“You know with that story coming out yesterday, there’s pressure coming from somewhere,” Lowe said on The Lowe Post, via RealGM. “There’s pressure coming from somewhere.
“And with LeBron’s comments about Kyrie… Look, I don’t know why LeBron said what he said about Kyrie yesterday. About how it’s time to bring him back in the league.
“Maybe he just said it because he believes and there’s nothing else to it. I can tell you around the league and even within the Lakers, some corners of it, those comments were read as LeBron opening the door to… At least opening the door to ‘Hey, if you all are comfortable with it and all the blowback it would be, and the Nets are willing to just get out of the business now of Kyrie Irving so we can get him for much cheaper, not both picks, maybe one pick…
“I don’t even know how to construct a Kyrie Irving trade right now for nine million different… Maybe [Kyrie] never meets those conditions and they waive him?
“It was read around the league as LeBron indicating, ‘If you guys want to consider it, I’m not going to stand in your way.'”
Irving and James, of course, were teammates together in Cleveland, the pair lifting the Cavaliers to the lone title in 2016.
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