2025-2026 NBA Season Thread: Wolves Died [Archived] • Page 586

my dad hasn't said anything about Lebron to the pacers so doesn't seem likely.

 

It’s possible Hali doesn’t come back even half as good as he was in which case it’s irrelevant but yeah

 

I hope LeBron does sign with them because who cares let’s get weird

but “they’re automatically a top 4 seed” is a bridge too far for me

 

It’d be funny as fuck. I’m in.

 

Why is it a bridge too far?

 

Back to back conference finals prior to last season with their best player out. With a worse center than they have now and without LeBron haha.

 

I hate the pacers stop making me defend them

 

why would he play maybe his final season in INDIANA where all his title hopes hinge on their best player coming back from a serious injury? even if he's not trying to win a title, that market makes 0 business sense.

i thought yall were joke posting.

 

What are the options? Cleveland with a player he dislikes that actively makes the team worse? Philly where he has to play with someone who just made an embarrassment of himself for a month straight and also the worst contract in the league? Miami where he’ll be on a team with three bigs and no shooting? Golden state with the other senior citizens?

Denver and Minnesota make a ton of sense as I’ve said in the past but they don’t seem to be in on trying to get him/don’t want him

 

they are joke posting they just dont know its joke posting

 

If and it’s a big if for sure but if Hali is healthy he is on paper by a pretty wide margin the best player for him to attach himself to on a team that seems to want to have LeBron on a team that was very successful in the conference very recently in a conference that’s easier to win in

 

Was it joke posting when you were adamant giannis was obviously signing the extension or were you just yapping

 

cleveland is the perfect bookend to his career which narratively makes way more sense
philly makes way more basketball sense if he wants to win next year. same with miami.

i'm not trying to clown on indiana but their best player is coming back from an achilles tear and they are one of the smalles markets in the league. just seems like the anti lebron move. guess we'll see.

 

Definitely a perfect bookend to the best player of all time’s career to end his career getting dog fucked into the ground by his own teammate

 

Miami makes literally zero basketball sense. It would be pure nostalgia of going back to Miami.

Philly makes basketball sense but the vibes there are atrocious

Denver and Minnesota would be perfect but don’t seem to want him. Honestly New York too. If you’re replacing basically all Josh hart minutes with LeBron that’s a+. But again there are no indications they are in the LeBron business

 

i was yapping!!!!! we all were!!!! youre digging your heels 10 feet into the ground because of a fanfest schedule that marc stein posted on twitter and suddenly denigrating like 4 other significantly better franchises than the PACERS just to fit your suddenly very weird pacers narrative all because he likes Hali??????? you are bozo posting.

 

I don’t think he’ll go to the Pacers but the fit is one of the better ones, dependent on Hali recovery going well.

But LeBron would fit on most teams anyway.

 

Alright man lmao

 

I think Denver is big on him, but I don't know if he's big on them imo lol

 

I cannot see yalls notoriously cheap owner being in the lebron business outside of a vet minimum deal but perhaps, yeah

 

I could be hallucinating but I could've sworn there were reports LeBron was willing to sign for the vet minimum to join a contender. But yeah, outside of the minimum there's not any more money the Nugs can sign him for lol

 

If it’s not the minimum it means a ton less teams are options

 

Hmm!!

 

I think for the right team if there aren’t other options he’d take the minimum but for a similar basketball situation on a team with cap flexibility I think he’d obviously prefer to get paid what he’s worth haha