Guess Who Might Come to Dinner!

There's a story doing the rounds in Lakerland at the moment that has the growing force of a wave. Rumours about the Lakers are more common than the Clippers losing and we've learnt to ignore them but this source is not only visable but also credible. Now here at this little blog we're pretty plugged into everything Purple and Gold but there are a couple, and only a couple, who are slightly more in the loop than us. One of those is the broadcaster/journalist/author Roland Lazenby who recently released a book on Jerry West. He says he has it on good authority that a certain Mr LeBron James Esq wants to become a Laker...
LeBron, a free agent in the summer, is apparantly making overtures to the Lakers' camp about joining them. He wants to win and he knows playing in a PJ team is the closest guarantee he'll be able to get to it. He'll also know that the LeBron brand will be much more marketable from LA but that's a synical little point.

So if this is true, what do you think? Well let's take a couple of points into consideration which make this rumour even more complicated than it already seemed. If LeBron were to sign, the Lakers would almost certainly have to let Kobe leave unless they wanted to pay enough luxury tax to buy up most of the Caribbean. Would Jerry and Jim Buss do that? Or could they play together if the Lakers decided to try and keep Kobe? LeBron would apparantly be up for that, would Kobe? His phone keeps going to voicemail so I can't answer that.
There's also the little matter that Phil isn't definately returning next season and Phil is the main reason LeBron wants to join. Maybe last night's nightmare will come true and he and LeBron will be teaming up in New York next season.

We've all had the Kobe LeBron debate, I mean, argument and could we accept and learn to love James as our new hero? Well, if this story has any traction you'll hear more about it over the coming days and weeks. If it's still floating around come playoff time and the Cavs win the Championship the story will almost certainly die a quick and painful death, if they don't (which they won't) then maybe those overtures will get louder.