“I think Draymond Green will end up in Dallas with Kyrie [Irving] and with Luke [Doncic]. And then LeBron [James] will try to find a way to get there. That’s my prediction”. Words from journalist Bill Simmons, founder of ‘The Ringer’, which are flooding the NBA universe and which, if they came true, would blow up the competition.
It seems complicated that the prophecy is fulfilled, but the author of the phrase was the same one who years ago was anticipating the arrival of LeBron James to the Lakers when it didn’t seem feasible either. It deserves at least to be taken into account and more in the dramatic situation that the Mavericks are going through And it can get even more complicated. They are eleventh in the West, They are out of the play-in and it is difficult for them to reach it.
There are details to feed the hypothesis. For example, Green He has a player option to stay with the Warriors for $27.5 million next season. However, its continuity is not guaranteed. He is an old friend of LeBron’s, with whom he shares a representation agency.Klutch Sport.
The forward has one year left on his contract with the Lakers and He also has a player option for the 24-25 season, just when his son Bronny could enter the NBA after submitting to the draft. The top scorer in the history of the League has always said that his greatest wish in the last years of his career is to play in the same team as his son. For now, the young man still has to choose a university.
In September of last year, Brian Windhorst, one of the journalists closest to LeBron, already assured that Dallas could be a good destination for him in his last years of his career due to his great affinity with Doncic. “I love everything about his game, I love everything about him”, ‘King’ James has said on occasion about the Slovenian. AND his relationship with Irving is also excellent. In fact, in February he regretted that the point guard had gone to the Mavericks instead of signing for the Lakers..
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But In addition to seeing who can make it to the Mavericks, it would be important to see who can leave.. Why Irving ends his relationship in Juneaspires to obtain a maximum contract, although neither the results of the team nor his volatile personality are going to help him, and his future is full of questions. Maybe LeBron will try to recruit him again. No one would be surprised if in summer he had a new destination.
To Doncic, while, after years waiting for reinforcements, they signed Irving but, without defensive solidity, the experiment is turning out to be a fiasco that can end in drama. After one of the last defeats, he already spoke of frustration and the lack of fun for him on the court. His patience with the Mavericks is coming to an end. and it is not known if he has enough left to hope that from the offices of the Dallas franchise, where ineffectiveness has recently been the usual trend, they begin to prepare a superteam.
Some reasons to think that prophecy is possible and many other reasons to believe otherwise. Will the Mavericks be the next great team in the NBA? Will they enter the demolition process next summer? For now, let’s see if they are able to reach the play-in, which is certainly difficult for them.
