The basketball world is finally coming to terms with the bombshell story that warriors owner Joe LacobĀ called lakers owner jeanie buss with the intention of trading for lebron james.
If the deal had gone well, it would have produced a legendary duo of james and stephen curry, likes that the league hasn’t seen since kobe bryant and shaquille O’Neal or magic johnson and kareem abdul-jabbar.
Curry was asked if the story surprised him after golden state’s 130-125 loss to the clippers on wednesday night.
Curry said, via NBC sports, “no, never surprised.” “it’s always a surprise when stuff like this is released because i’m assuming that every team is making calls that if every fanbase or media group knew about it, it would normalize the conversations in the front office, especially around the trade deadline, when you’re figuring out who’s available and who’s not. “curry said that his team’s front office was justified in doing their due diligence and checking james’ availability ahead of the feb.8 trade deadline. “a man like bron, you would probably call just to see him,” curry said. “i don’t know what the depths of the conversations were like, but it was a nice little surprise this morning.” “since the story was published, several theories regarding james’ decision to decline the trade have been proposed.
Some have even predicted that the warriors will resume their hunt for james in the offseason. If james does not exercise his player option before june 29, he would become a free agent.
