When the stunning news broke that the Golden State Warriors reached out the team that knocked them out of the Western Conference semifinals, your Los Angeles Lakers, about potentially trading to add 20-time All-Star combo forward LeBron James to their roster of veteran future Hall of Famers, the NBA world at large was stunned.
The Ringer's Bill Simmons postulated recently about why the news leaked at all, by trying to gauge who would benefit from the intel getting out there.
His surprising conclusion: the Lakers themselves. We'll let him explain.
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