Former Mavericks player says LeBron James will leave Lakers

Former Dallas Mavericks guard and podcaster Theo Pinson has fully planted his flag on what'll happen with LeBron James, posting to X/Twitter to definitively say, "Bron leaving LA."

It would be a pretty surprising move if LeBron were to be traded. As much as people joke about him being an armchair GM and pulling strings behind the table, he's always finished out his contracts so that he could sign elsewhere. He's never been traded, and he's never been bought out of his contract. That may seem like an obvious statement given how dominant he's been in his career, but Luka Doncic was traded seven months after making the NBA Finals; anything is possible.

Dallas has been connected as a team that would be interested in trading for LeBron if he were to demand out of Los Angeles. They now have three former Lakers in D'Angelo Russell, Anthony Davis, and Max Christie, and Jason Kidd was on the Lakers' staff when they won their most recent championship. Add in Kyrie Irving, and you have a lot of people LeBron James is familiar with.

But there are a few things that need to happen, like the Lakers continuing to swing and miss in free agency, before LeBron James considers asking out.