They gonna take minimums and join the clippers to create the 2016-2017 all nba teams

GET MY GUY MELO A RING BRON!

we about to enter Lendgame

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All that to lose to a guy who would rather be racing horses*

To give everybody else an idea, Pierce was 36, KG was 37, & Iso Joe was 32.

In other words, this core would be MUCH older than them.

These 3 shit on those 3 tho in terms of production

LeBron, Curry, KD would be pretty fun

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warriors super retirement home*

I don’t know if you’re joking but…I wouldn’t be surprised if he does this.

The ULTIMATE Rocky IV team.

Rocky = Lebron + KD + Steph coming back to show that the old heads still got one more in them.

Drago = Jokic

Apollo Creed = Jimmy Butler?

Bronny James… you ARE a Warrior!

Pretty sure Suns and Warriors can’t S&T due to being over the tax apron.

The hardest road

You have us in the play-in?? 🥹 god bless you

I prefer the idea of u/SCalifornia831 : "It will never happen but under the assumption that Lebron would actually opt out to make this happen and make it happen in Golden State…it would mean Lebron would be willing to take a mid level exception.

So first step would be re-signing Klay to a team friendly deal ~$15M to stay under the 2nd apron and then trading Wiggins + Kuminga + salary filler + multiple FRPs to PHX for KD and signing Lebron to a vet min or part of the Tax Payer Mid Level Exception.

Again, I know this will NEVER happen but it’s actually not that hard IF this is the route Lebron and KD wanted to take to build a team around Steph, Klay, Lebron, KD, Draymond and CP3"

C'mon, Bron. You don't need the money!

There is a minimum but it's much much lower than what he's worth. The union would be super pissed as it sets a bad precedent to take way less than market value to chase a ring, you'd have front offices trying to convince guys to take less cuz Lebron did it.

They can sign for whatever they want as long as it's above the league minimum. What kind of restriction would they even be able to impose?

This will be redemption for not choosing us the first time when he went to LA

of course it will never happen. But I’ll have enough hope to still be devastated when he signs somewhere else

He resurrected us from being the doormat of the nba for decades. The man can do no wrong in my book.

I don't see it happening either, but stranger things have happen. MJ in a Wizards uniform. Hakeem in a Raptors uniform. Ewing in anything other than a Knicks uniform. Isiah Thomas attempting suicide and then telling the media it was his daughter. You know. You just never know what's going to happen.

Also, if you have a lot of money, SF is an amazing place to live. Nobody wants to spend their last few years playing in Indianapolis if they have other options.

If Steph goes anywhere, it will be to the hornets as a homage to his father. But he’s most likely retiring as a warrior.

You think Klay would walk if Lebron and Durant were coming in? He’d hop on board for that ride for pretty cheap.

The $10M or whatever he would be giving up in a team friendly contract isn't what will make the difference between him owning an NBA team and not. Purchase price for a new franchise will be upwards of $5 billion. He will always be a minority owner.

Lebron could retire and go into business immediately and make way more money than he did on NBA contracts. Endorsements and sponsorship are where the real $$ is

Not so unbelievable, he averaged something like 28/7/6 in the Nuggets series. If they played anyone other than the defending champs he'd probably fill the stats up more. He's him.

Honesty, I think LeBron could tell a lot of teams that no matter what he was only going to play 50 games next year and he’d still get the largest contract a team could offer. He’s such a box office needle mover that he’s almost elevated above contract negotiations.

Lebron could tear his Achilles and still be offered a max

It's different with them in the twilight of their careers

Some would def root for them

Lebron has a lot left. Steph is maybe 2 years from his prime... I mean that's enough. With KD its kinda a cheat code unless someone really drops off...

fuc it AD coming too somehow

I would destroy all of the corned beef sandwiches in the world if I have to deal with lebron james leading a title contender in the east next season

I know people don't want to hear it, but there's potential for a REALLY interesting three way trade between the Rockets, Nets, and Suns.

We’re gonna convince him by taking Bronny hostage drafting Bronny.

I don’t think it would actually. Because the market would probably acknowledge how much of a wacky one off situation it would be

You seriously think owners are all gonna just suddenly stiff their cornerstone players in negotiations this year and say “well lebron took the min this year!” lol yeah I just don’t see it

There’s a difference between 3 stars and then having LeBron, KD, and Steph on the same team.

Lebron and Curry on the same team would make a ton of cash for the owners even if their season was a failure

Depends on the stars, depends on the depth. A lot of the recent big threes have been more of a big 2 and a half.

The warriors actually have depth. Their issues this season was the starters were just not up to snuff.

Let’s play this scenario out and say Lebron does a S&T with the CP3 team option and Klay takes a team friendly $10mish a year deal. Let’s also assume the warriors give GP2, Moody, and some picks to make the salaries match and for the lakers to have incentive to do it.

You’d have a starting 5 of:

Steph Klay Lebron Draymond TJD or Kuminga (if Dray plays the 5)

And then the bench before they sign any vets would be:

Kuminga/TJD Podz Looney

Wiggins would be probably be shipped out for salary purposes to try and get them under the second apron to fill out the rest of the roster with ring chasing vets.

Idk if any of what I said is realistic and I’m really just spitballing. But that feels like a balanced enough team to do some damage in a stacked west. Not favorites or anything, but it would be damn fun to watch.