SHOCKING: Is there a Secret Plan between LeBron James and Nikola Jokic?

SHOCKING: Is there a Secret Plan between LeBron James and Nikola Jokic?

So, what were LeBron and Nicole Yokic’s agent doing in the Mediterranean together? Uh, we’re going to talk about that more here on Locked on Nuggets. You are Locked on Nuggets, your daily Denver Nuggets podcast, part of the Locked On Network, your team every day. Welcome into Locked on Nuggets, your daily Denver Nuggets podcast, part of the Locked On Network, your team every day. Happy Monday, folks. Uh for those that are tuning in on the audio side of things, for those that are catching us in the morning, we always record on Sunday nights, Wednesday nights for myself and Matt Moore. He at HP Basketball, the hardware peroxism Substack, and the Denver Dig. I am over at Mile High Sports as well as for the pickaxe name. Uh, I’m Ryan Blackburn. They they could see it. They they know me. They know who I am. Uh, they I mean, hey, I’ I’ve I’ve done enough clickbait titles now to to fully understand. Hey, when you see a clickbait title, you know, it’s Ryan and Matt coming in with Conspiracy Corner, but we’re here and we’re excited and we’re going to talk about it. It’s a little bit of an interesting way to kick off the week. Uh, obviously everybody’s very curious as to what LeBron James is going to do over the course of this next year, I would say. He has been extremely cryptic, Matt, in terms of what his actual plans are. And I didn’t think that we would be talking about it too much until hey, lo and behold, uh, Miso Rasnikovich, Nicole Yokic’s agent, posts a picture of him, LeBron James, and Maverick Carter, uh, just chopping it up, middle of the Mediterranean on a boat. Uh, and the caption of it was very interesting. It was effectively along the lines of uh really excited uh all the plans that are made in summer 2025 to put it put out there in fall of 2026. Weird choice of dates. Interesting choice of like to add context like that. Matt, when you saw this, what was your first reaction? Um, I rolled my eyes because I I just, you know, I if you want to get excited about it because it’s fun, I’m not going to regret you that. Not you, you, the general you. I think it’s I think it’s fine to do this. Like there are wild things that occur. Um, I just have a hard time like making it all make sense from that perspective. Now, like look, we did a whole show about like why LeBron would make sense here before the Nuggets made the moves that they did. Now, I think it’s a little bit more complicated obviously with him opting into the $52.1 million team option or player option for next season. Um, so I don’t think it’s going to happen immediately and obviously the dates are kind of interesting. Um, working with the agent is obviously interesting and I’m just curious as to like what that means and whether that like who’s expanding into what. Um, it was taken by the way in uh St. Tropz. I don’t know how to stro I don’t know how what the French pronunciation is uh in France in the Mediterranean. So that is um their Savannah’s um it’s interesting to see like who else is in the photos, right? Like it’s just interesting to kind of look at uh the whole the whole picture of it and who’s been present and who’s not. So I think it’s just kind of interesting. Um, Maverick Carter also in this, right? Maverick is part of So, before LeBron was with Clutch, I’ll give you like a little history lesson. Before, for those of you that are younger, before LeBron was with Clutch, so Clutch formed when he met Rich Paul and Rich Paul became his agent. Um, LeBron’s crew, he used to be with he was represented by CIA, Leon Rose, who now runs the Knicks. Um, and LRMR was his personal branding group and it was made up of LeBron and Maverick Carter and two other individuals, one of which is is still a prominent figure within the Cavaliers organization. So, Mav is like that’s his guy like that that’s always been his guy and he’s he’s at the crux of most of what they do. Um, so I do think it’s kind of interesting to look at what’s going on there. Um, I don’t have like uh, so I asked I asked that the internet. I was like, “What happens in St. Tropz?” I again don’t know how to pronounce this. It’s saying I’m gonna do it here. I’ll do my Arkansas on it. What happens in St. Tropz this time of year? Um, July is prime time for the global elite, celebrities, athletes, and business mogul to visit. Oh, so this is like a very popular time. uh Club 55, Nikki Beach, lavish daytime parties, designer popups and art galleries. Uh there’s yaching events like the Rolex Cup earlier in the summer. Um July features warm-ups for the Le Vo de Trope. Um private yacht charters. Love that one. Private yacht charters are at capacity. So, and vineyards are in full swing as well. So, you think they just met up with each other out there? You think they just crossed paths and were like, “Hey.” No, I think that there’s I think it’s probably like um I think that there was probably like he they’re out there amongst the elites and then they’re probably working on something. It’s I just find it unlikely that this is a basketball ccentric oriented kind of thing. Well, it’s possible like it’s it’s we’re going to do the expansion conversation next segment, but it is possible that there is some NBA Europe stuff that is going on and you you want to like I know LeBron and his camp have also been very very like emphatic about the idea of both expansion and uh where he has been very in on the idea of Vegas or Seattle or or any of these teams or any of these locations for his own personal ownership stake. Uh but more than that, NBA Europe and I’ve I’ve heard about this I I heard about it a few months ago. Uh it seems like that is like something that they are very very like emphasizing like they’re they’re trying to do this. They’re trying to get overseas. They are trying to incorporate more of Europe into the actual NBA ethos in ways that they can. You’re muted. Uh, cash the minus 10,000. So, do you want Here’s here’s a fun one. Who took the photo? H Savannah. What if it was Josh Kroni? So that’s the other fun thing is that the entire the entire reason why LeBron James to Denver was ever even a possib like ever even a thought was because of a video of Josh Kroni jumping off of a boat with LeBron James back in like 2014 or somewhere like and he was like go get it Josh and then Josh flips off of the boat or something and they uh they they’re partying out there and so it wouldn’t surprise me at all? Would it would it surprise you in any way, shape, or form that that Josh just is is out there? Like you you talked about the relative elites in the conversation in July? Like that could that could absolutely be a spot. Yeah. I mean, I would bet that he’s out there, right? I think that’s like an interesting question. Um, by the way, he didn’t like it wasn’t just him jumping off the boat. They actually they’ve been friends for a long time. Oh, yeah. Obviously. And it was really weird during the mid210s. you would actually like the the there’s a for those that are unfamiliar with the Nuggets underground layout, the tunnels uh beneath the arena, you’ve got like there’s a T section that goes from the media room to the locker room to the visitor locker room back to the arena and there’s like a intersection there. Well, like I got hung up several times over the years by there being like stoppage of security because LeBron and Josh were just sitting there talking like just hanging out and I was like, “Hey guys, I don’t actually care what rich things you’re talking about. I just want to go home. Just like to walk through, please. I just like to get through.” So, I think it’s but like it’s an interesting question. I think of um of those type of things. Uh let’s see here. Uh oh. Uh, when was this? July 21st, 2020. Are you kidding me? 2020. What? Five. Oh yeah. What’s that? Oh my god. July 10th, 2025. I actually was on my way here to St. Trope and I’m here trying to enjoy my time before I head back to Denver and head back to work. That’s from Josh. This is talking about the about the MPJ deal. Yeah. Huh. Okay. So, it’s But he was there earlier. Does somebody Do people like him really vacation the same place twice? Would Yeah. I mean, if you’re if you’re a rich person, like, why would you ever hit up the same place multiple times? Like, if if you can go anywhere, like, why why would you ever Why would you ever go back? Like, I I don’t even wear the same suit twice, Matt. Like, it’s crazy. So, I need to get I need to get what I’m learning about this is I need to get a source in Sanrope. That’s that’s the one like hey if if so many people are going to be hanging out there then might as well I’m seeing different different suggestions on pronunciation. It seems like Sanropes is probably the it’s like a soft s. It’s not Sanropez and it’s not Sanrope Sanrope. It’s like Sanrope. It’s like there’s a very soft S on it. I I think this is this is one of those where you’re we’re just clearly not rich enough to know the pronunciation. That’s I’m not rich I’m actually not rich enough to pronounce it. You have to have a certain net worth in order to be able to pronounce it quick correctly otherwise it comes out strope Arkansas man. St. Tropz you know down there by Possum Trot. Oh man. Okay. Well, is uh Okay. anything going to come out of this from like like do do you plan to see anything in the fall of 2026? I don’t know what it be. Is he going to finish his career in Joker may not be here if Jo I mean is Joker going to LA? Yeah. Didn’t sign the extension. Yep. That’s true. That’s what if it’s what if it’s a what if it’s a one for one slot swap Jokic and LeBron and they’re just they’re trying to they’re trying to get LeBron a place where he could just finish out the career that’s that’s relatively close to where his his family is. Um but doesn’t want to be in LA and then LA is just trying to set up for the future. I do not understand what this is about. Yeah. Well, who knows? We’ll uh we will like I I’m just going to assume that LeBron is signing here for the mid-level exception in maybe it’s a sign and trade. We’ll we’ll we’ll we’ll we’ll let the the nerds come up with the particulars. Uh when we come back, we’re going to talk about NBA expansion. I I mean I’m I’m a part of that conversation as you the nerds. Let’s Yeah, the nerds like way way over there. Yeah, that’s fine. When we come back, we’re going to talk about NBA expansion here on Locked on Nuggets. All right, we’re going to talk about 5Hour Energy, folks. A new sponsor here. Time to fuel up. 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Said that there were some things that like they they weren’t necessarily like this wasn’t an imminent thing. Like expansion is still something that they had to work out some a few things. work out a few factors. Uh I think there’s a lot of folks in the NBA that seem to believe that one of those factors is James Dolan and a variety of owners that do not want to do revenue sharing. Is that your kind of perspective as well based off of what you have heard? Is there something else that we are not thinking about when it comes to expansion? because it feels like Seattle and Vegas would be pretty easy opportunities for expansion. Yeah, I think I think that there’s probably a lot of this that is just tied to the media deal is so lucrative. I think that the other owners want to time it so that they get the lion share of this media deal and then get the fees for the expansion teams without giving them the media rights fees. So let’s see the media deal is like what 10 years. I was just going to ask you I thought it was either nine or 10. Yeah, I think there’s an opt out after nine. Yeah. Um, if you wait five years and then tell them they can’t get the media money for another four, you get that money and the fees. And given that we’ve seen Glenn Taylor, Mark Cuban, Wick Grass, and Jeannie Bus all cash out in the last 18 months. That’s insane. Yeah. And like look, new owners come and like ownership comes and goes, but like I have a little bit of what do they know with some of this? It does seem like there’s movement amongst some of the very established NBA ownership groups in terms of we bought this at a low value. We’ve turned a whatever it was, you know, like sometimes this is like as much as like 90 million into like a two, you know, seven billion dollar business and we can get, you know, and now we’re going to get out at the peak. I I just kind of assume that the expansion stuff is driven by ownership concerns over money. To me, that is like the most likely outcome here. I think the European stuff is always gonna be not a pipe dream, but I just think it’s going to be something that’s like very slow to develop. And I don’t know that there’s ever going to be like I think Silver wants that to be his legacy. And I’m not sure there’s ever going to be enough momentum from the like the owners don’t want to pay for a legit G-League. The owners don’t want to pay for like they’ve just now gotten 30 teams in the G-League and they still don’t have a robust system. The the salaries still aren’t competitive. Yeah. Yeah. They’re still haggling the with the WNBA owners are still being jackasses over the WNBA CBA negotiations. Like the the owners are very slow to move. And I think that’s kind of the thing here is um now what’s best for the game I think is a different question. I I will say as I like the idea of expansion just because I’m like more teams neat. Cool. I don’t know that we have enough talent to support it. I don’t I just don’t know that we have enough talent to support it. I think we we feel differently and there’s there’s a lot of people that feel like this is a very talented era of the NBA where expanding to 32 teams or whatever wouldn’t necessarily dilute things that much. Do you feel differently than that? I do a little bit. Um who’s the best player on the Washington Wizards? Uh your your favorite team, the Washington Wizards. Uh it’s probably Chris Middleton until proven otherwise. Right. And like amongst the young guys, it’s like Alexander Sar, number two pick overall. Yeah, he’s the But you have those teams all the time and it’s not like they didn’t have them before. Well, no. Well, that’s my point though is like we haven’t moved past that. Like you have to in order for this to feel like it’s not a dilution, we have to feel like it’s like that the talent is overflowing. And one of my problems is that the NBA in order for you to be competitive, you have to have a number one guy. And there’s quite a few teams who do not have a number one guy. I don’t know if Charlotte has a number one. I don’t know if LMBL is that guy. I don’t I don’t know. Might be, but I don’t know. I think you’re being pretty restrictive in terms of who certain number one guys are in in the NBA context. I I think that there’s a lot of people that feel like like hypothetically if Jamal Murray were to get his own team that he could expand his game and and be averaging like 24 six and six or something like that. But that doesn’t that doesn’t translate to competitiveness, right? Yeah. like Jordan like Jordan Pool can put up numbers, right? I’m not comparing Jamal to Jordan Pool. Yeah. But I am saying that like um if I felt I think the parody right now is in a pretty good place now. Like the benefit of this is we send two West teams east and now just be one for what it’s worth. Do what? It would just be one for what it’s worth. Like you go from 15 to 17 in the west and then take one of those west teams to the east. Fair. You send one team to the west. Yeah. Right. Or to the east instantly that team that the Eastern Conference adds another serious team whether it’s Minnesota. New I mean that’s question is like if New Orleans, you know, and then there’s separate questions about New Orleans which Bill Simmons has kind of he’s been he’s been on that that was that was a very interesting conversation. So could it be Memphis? Could it be Minnesota? for me like it would make most sense if it was Minnesota and there’s so many teams in that central area that they would be right around. Um it’s interesting. You know what’s one this is like a fascinating problem. I think the NBA has a real problem with the Southeast. Mhm. They have a real and it’s always been a problem. They can’t get and it’s crazy because like the Hawks are an iconic franchise even though they haven’t won anything. Like everyone knows the Hawks and they had Nique, right? And that and like that should be such a good that should be such a good team and it never is. Yeah. Right. Right. And you had NBA champions in Miami and you had contenders in Orlando several times, but like that region has never really been able to bring it up. I do think if you add Memphis to the Southeastern group, it probably validates that like it creates a much better rivalry system down there. But the college football factor I just think is so strong it’s an issue. Which is funny because it’s like they’re never going to like it. It’s college football and I’m like Norman, Oklahoma. Yeah. There there’s football programs everywhere at this point. Like, well, no, it’s No, it is different. Like, there’s football programs. Yeah. I mean, Big 10 Southeast is is that’s the that’s the bread and butter at this point, but like Oklahoma doesn’t really like Oklahoma’s always been like top five, never top three kind of kind of conversation. No, I mean, they had, you know, back in the 90s, they had a streak of a lot of championships and they’ve been they’ve been in championship content. It’s it’s a way of life there for sure, but even then like Oklahoma City Oklahoma City just kind of embraced it, right? Yeah. Um, my brother loves to hit on Oklahoma. I do think it’s like an interesting question of um do you do you think there’s enough talent to viably put teams there so they won’t be miserably embarrassingly bad? I think if you’re going to do that you’ve got I do think if if you’re going to do this you better get rid of tanking entirely. I don’t know how you’re going to do it. And like last year should have been the instructive. So I, you know, I’m talk I’ve talked about a lot about the Wizards because I like this team a lot. They’re fun. Um, but their their pick is top eight protected. So it’s they got to lose. They got they cannot fall to nine. They cannot risk doing that, right? So they’re going to have to lose. But that there’s that part of me that’s like for if you’re trying to get the franchise guy, I’m like, look at this last year, man. San Antonio, Philadelphia, Dallas. like why are you bothering with it? You can’t, you know, but teams are still going to continue to do that. I do think that if you if you do the expansion in order to make sure that you don’t have two expansion teams tanking as they grow grow talent plus teams like the Wizards or whoever the new Wizards are or like Charlotte, I just think you don’t want to get to a spot where there’s that many teams that are not trying to be competitive. I do like it because it’s like, all right, only half the league makes the playoffs. Yeah, instead of more than half. That would be helpful. There’s there’s something to be said about that. I just I do think that it’s time. I think that a divisional realignment would be good for the NBA. Right now that there’s right now there are five teams in six different divisions. And I’ve never liked it because it does it just doesn’t make sense. I think that if they wanted to do something more with the NBA Cup, it is better with four teams per division, eight divisions, kind of mirroring the NFL style. And it just it would make more sense for for so many reasons or you just get rid of divisions all together. But let’s keep talking about this on the other side because I actually want to ask you about how we would do this if we’re going to do that kind of division breakout. I love it. Let’s uh let’s talk about this on the other side here on Locked on Nuggets. And we are back. Lockdown nuggets. Thank you so much folks for tuning into the show. Okay, so let’s let’s say that the two teams that are going to be added to the pool are Seattle and Las Vegas. Let’s also say that for the sake of this, Memphis is the team that shifts over to the Eastern Conference. uh you would have 16 teams in each conference. How would you want to do divisions or would you do divisions at all? I would do divisions. Um I always I like the idea of there being actually Tom Zeller had a plan many years ago to do kind of a three conference system that would have fed into one collective pool. I’ve looked at a lot of the um travel data when I was looking at this. I still continue to maintain that there is a way to do this effectively for them to integrate the playoffs and do non like non-conference playoffs. Um, one of the real tricks is giving the higher seed the opportunity to choose between um 21 2211 or 232 because if you’re if you’re facing if it’s like let’s say the Celtics are match up with the Lakers, they can choose 232 because they’re like we only want two flights. It’s one flight there, one flight back, right? Um, as far as a division goes, so this would be now four team divisions. Yes. Uh, yes. If you’re trying to divide it four by four. Yeah. Okay. Okay. So, California has got to be Warriors, Kings, Lakers, Clippers. It’s California. You just do a California division basically. Yeah. Okay. So, Denver then has got to take Portland. Yep. They’re not stranded. They’ve got to take Seattle. So Denver, great return of that rivalry. Denver, Seattle, Portland, Phoenix. Would you do Vegas? See? Yeah, it’s tough. Yeah, you probably have to do Vegas because that’s only like a that’s what that’s like a 90 minute. It’s like an hour flight. Mhm. How would you feel about taking one of the California teams in North California in Sacramento and putting them in the Northwest Division instead? You can’t break up the Kings Lakers rivalry. You can’t. What rivalry? They have a rivalry. Okay. Like the Lakers don’t think they have a rivalry, but Kings fans do. Much the way that Nuggets fans thought they had a rivalry with the Lakers before 2023. Yeah, that’s true. That’s true. Now, now it is a Now it is a thing. now is a rival. Um, okay. So, I think that’s fair and I do understand why you’re kind of going with that perspective. Unfortunately, it makes the travel so easy in the California division and so much more difficult in the Denver, Vegas, Portland, Seattle division. There’s also Utah to consider. You’re right. So, it probably actually has to be It’s got to be You know what? They may have to move Denver out because it’s going to have to be Vegas, Seattle, Portland, Utah. Okay. So, if we’re going that direction and we’re keeping Minnesota in the west, then you are going Denver, Minnesota, OKC probably can’t get rid of them. And Phoenix is the one left out. So, it’s going to have to be Phoenix. It’s gonna have See, that doesn’t solve this either. tough. To me, Minnesota has to be the team that moves, Matt. Yeah. And then you can do Well, here’s the thing, though, is like Memphis isn’t close. But then they can be in a like a Texas division, but then you’re going to have to take out one of the Texas teams to put them with Denver. Okay. So, now we’re we’re seeing some issues here. How would you feel? I don’t really I’ll be honest with you. I don’t really care about the travel. I don’t like I get it from your perspective of like it’s not fair for all those California teams to be in the division, but it depends on how you balance the schedule, too. You’re still going to have to have to to they’re still going to do it. As much as I hate it, they’re still going to be like you have to play the you have to go out east for one game against all 15 teams, which is stupid, by the way. Well, and because one of the reasons why I was thinking it might make sense to do divisions this way is then you can add more divisional games and instead of actually make it valuable that way. They won’t do it. They’ll never do it because you have these owners like Devos whose kids just took over who are like, “No, no, no. I want LeBron to come to my my stadium.” Like, “I want Yoshic to come come once a year.” I don’t blame him. I get it. I know. But it’s so irritating because I’m just like, “Guys, make your team good. Quit trying to rely on the gate of the of the rest of the league. You don’t you never want to do anything to help your your other owners except when it comes to getting somebody somebody else in your building. It’s so annoying.” The other thing is that like Joic will eventually retire. LeBron will eventually retire. These these draws will eventually change and if you’re in a different situation like you you might be adding somebody like or forcibly adding somebody to a place where it won’t be positive anymore after like five years. So I I don’t know that’s a that is a tough thing. Um, how about four total divisions across all 32 teams and then you do eight teams? Yeah, per division. I like that. I like that a lot better. You might be able to go more coastal. Yeah, because then you can do let’s see, you can do Seattle, Portland, the four Vegas, the four Denver team or the four LA or four California teams and Phoenix and Phoenix and that’s eight. And then you can do Denver, Utah, OKC. We’ll keep Minnesota in this for this conversation. Uh Minnesota, the three Texas teams, and New Orleans. Yep. That I can get behind. I I can definitely get behind that. Uh in the East, it would be a little bit It wouldn’t be as kind of like time zoneish in the Eastern Conference. So it would probably be kind of northeast and southeast. Yeah, that’s all you do is you just take all you do is you just take um it would be the five Atlantic teams plus Washington, Ohio, and Indiana, Cleveland. Um Okay. Um and then you’re going to take then then you’re just going to do Milwaukee to to Florida. Yeah. What are you gonna do? and uh and Memphis. Okay. I you know what? Honestly, I like that better. I I think that makes more sense. Um this guy’s apparently spent a lot of time on Ruby. I I’ve thought about it, too. Like, and and one of the things I really like to do is come up with what the actual game schedule would look like in this context. And so, if you did divisions this way, you can do like four team like it actually wouldn’t change that much with your current schedule. You do four team uh four division games, three conference games, two non-conference games per team, and then that’s 32 games that you’re getting from non-conference. That is 24 games that you’re getting from conference. And then in division, you’re getting 7* 4 is 28. So that is 52. That’s 84. Oh crap. Dude, this is my thing. Just get rid of the do the non-cons by half. If you if you take if you just take those eight games, not eight games, whatever it would be, right? You’re doing 16. 16. It’ll be 16 games. Yeah. Yeah. If you just take those 16 games and you take those off of the schedule, we are we are all ready. We’re all ready. 68 game schedule and then you rotate those out like once every two years like you you either go to that side or or you come back and um like yeah, it would just be that would be so much easier. Like eight eight teams, eight non-conference teams wouldn’t get to see Jokic in one year, but they would get to see him the other time. I’m sorry, Orlando. Yeah, you know, like the Lakers aren’t coming this year. Yeah, bummer. You might have to be more competitive to get people in the building. Like the I am just I do not care about this where I’m like, look, the NBA should be focused on trying to get the best games possible. The things that what creates the best games possible is dislike. What creates dislike is familiarity. That’s why these teams go into a playoff series and they’re like, I love those guys. I respect them so much. I’ve known them. They’re great guys. Such great players. We’re competitors. We’re excited to get at it. And by the end of it, they’re like, I hope they die. Yeah. Spiritually, I hope really really bad hangail for the rest of his days. Uh, no, I I get it. And I I do think that invoking some sort of rivalry that way would would make it, I think, very valuable. I do kind of like based off of what we’ve talked about and how difficult it is to actually get these play like these teams to where you would want them to go. If you have to keep California together in a 14 division, screw that. Go to go to four divisions total with eight teams per like that’s that’s just the easiest way to do it. You hate this idea of the California teams having an advantage that much. It’s just like it’s it’s ridiculous to force Denver, Portland, Seattle, and Phoenix or Las Vegas to be in a division circling around California. Like they’re circling around Denver has the best homec court advantage in the NBA. Oh yeah. And everybody knows it, which is why they’ve built in the travel data to begin with. All right. You know this. No West to Easts. None of them. They’re gone. All right, everybody. We we ran out of time. We will talk about elite west teams in a future episode. That is going to do it for this episode of Locked on Nuggets. Thank you so much for tuning into the show. What do you think is the best way for divisions to realign and what did Mis Raznovvich and LeBron James discuss on the boat? Thanks for listening to this episode of Locked on Nuggets.

Matt and Ryan begin the week with some Conspiracy Corner about LeBron James, Maverick Carter, and Nikola Jokic’s agent, Misko Raznatovic, meeting together on a boat. They also discuss NBA expansion and how elite teams in the West there are.

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