LeBron James Move Tops NBA Summer Storylines

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00:00Maybe it's the first domino and it's funny that Brawny James might be that

00:06first domino on Mike Fisher on the NBA. Obviously it's really LeBron James, but

00:11the fate of the NFL draft and Brawny James, the prospect there, LeBron's son,

00:16that is a key piece to what's going to happen in the NBA this offseason. There's

00:21no argument there. The argument is maybe how much authority should the James

00:27family have in dictating all of this? Apparently quite a bit. The NFL knows how

00:32this works and has for years. The NBA knows how this works. I still say it

00:39somehow isn't really the fault of the teams ahead of the Dallas Mavericks that

00:44those teams missed on Luka Doncic. I don't think they missed on him. I think

00:50this thing was orchestrated by Doncic and at the time Donnie Nelson and the

00:55Dallas Mavericks. Well now we have it again in a way where the the fate of

01:01Brawny and the future of LeBron tied together. Go back to the Lakers,

01:06certainly in play. They just hired LeBron's podcast partner JJ Reddick,

01:12former Maverick, former a lot of things, as their head coach. But the Knicks are a

01:18player in pursuing a big guy and we're seeing a lot of Knicks speculation on

01:24secondary guys and six men. The Knicks don't need an eighth man. They got

01:30that. We've seen obviously the Pacers make their first big move. More to come

01:36there. A lot of what the Pacers are going to do probably is going to be

01:40limited in terms of dollars and cents. But this is a team not unlike the Knicks

01:45that is on the verge. The Spurs get to be in the conversation here. There's no

01:50question about that. Wembley makes all things possible. You put Wembley and Pop

01:55together and give me some assets and some room and San Antonio is all of a

02:00sudden once again, again, an attractive place, an attractive landing spot for

02:06somebody who wants to go win a lot of basketball games. Klay Thompson, that

02:09decision seems to be made maybe by both parties. The report from the Athletic

02:14that the Warriors at this moment as we speak haven't even made him an offer. So

02:18change is afoot with the Warriors as well. And then of course the Dallas

02:22Mavericks, a team to watch now because they've been in the West Finals twice

02:28in the last three years, been in the NBA Finals this past year. Yes, the Celtics

02:32manhandled them. But to shame the Mavericks because they are only the

02:38second best team in basketball seems not only unfair but also foolish and maybe

02:43dangerous to sell them short in terms of what they might do in terms of talent

02:48acquisition to acquire themselves even more skilled players. Remember, because

02:54of the trade deadline and the moves they made there, this is a team that's only

02:57been together for five months or so. The future Kyrie says is bright, the future

03:01Luka says is bright and they are not wrong. But some shoes about to drop here

03:06in this NBA offseason. On the NBA, Fish out.