This isn’t really beneficial to KD, but LeBron should leave no stone unturned in his quest to win a few more titles before he retires.
Mark Stein maps out what he thinks LeBron plan will be.
James will have three full weeks to dig into the various options, study the landscape for the most fertile locales for title contention and, perhaps most crucially, make clandestine connections with the starry likes of Paul George, Kawhi Leonard and, yes, Paul and James Harden to explore the prospects of teaming up somewhere.
It frankly wouldn’t surprise me to ultimately learn that James contacts Durant — himself a free-agent-to-be if he declines his player option with the Warriors for next season, as expected — to see if joining forces somewhere makes any sense. James, remember, is the face of the N.B.A.’s Player Power era. Anyone who tries to tell him that it simply wouldn’t be fair for James and Durant to wear the same uniform should prepare for James’s retort that he has zero interest in the outside world’s rules.
KD has a really nice set up in Golden State and has already stated he has no plans to leave the team.