Brian Windhorst on Lebron James Potentially Coming Back to the Cavaliers – Sports4CLE, 7/9/25

Brian Windhorst on Lebron James Potentially Coming Back to the Cavaliers – Sports4CLE, 7/9/25

ESPN’s national NBA analyst Brian Winhorst talking about a possible Cavs and LeBron James reunion. And if the Lakers are trading LeBron James, they’re going to want really good stuff for it. With a straight face, I can’t say that it’s impossible, but you have to understand that they can’t feasibly trade for him. Do you think they’d be open to a reunion at some point at the veteran minimum? You know, I don’t know. At the veteran minimum, yes. I think I can speak for the Cavs organization to say if LeBron wanted to play for $3 million, they would do that contract. Okay. I can speak for Dan Gilbert. I will speak for Gordon Gund. I will speak for uh uh the, you know, the ghost of Bingo Smith. Let’s welcome in Sam Miko from hoopswire.com. Sam, I know you wrote an article. Obviously, LeBron and the Lakers front office not in a great space right now. Uh not on the same page, if you will, which is interesting because the Lakers are now on the hook for $53 million uh just this next season. So, yeah, I mean, the report out of Los Angeles from from the Athletic was that they’re they’re not in a great space. And I think part of that was probably because of Rich Paul’s statement after LeBron picked up the option uh saying kind of a cryptic message saying that LeBron James uh you know is running it back obviously picking up his option but he is putting pressure on the front office and the front office is saying well you know you picked up that option it kind of makes things difficult but you know right now you have to look at it like the Lakers have done everything they can uh in in terms of helping LeBron James get to the finals again. They they went out and they they made that splashy trade during the off seasonason for Luca Donuch or I’m sorry during the regular season and then they just added former number one overall draft pick DeAndre Aton who has yet to play like a number one overall draft pick and has worn out as welcome in a couple places but could be exactly uh what the Lakers need. So, it’s very interesting to see a and and read about why the front office and LeBron James are somewhat at odds at this point. Yeah. And again, we’ll we’ll see. Likely nothing comes of that because there’s $53 million of a contract that uh you can’t really do much

Dave Bacon and Sam Amico respond to what Brian Windhorst had to say on a potential LeBron James reunion with the Cavaliers.

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