And so it begins. After Magic Johnson stepped down from his management role with the Los Angeles Lakers, the team brought in Kurt and Linda Rambis and botched a coaching search that is still ongoing, now there are some rumblings that the team’s owner, Jeanie Buss, is being told to seriously consider trading LeBron James.
Wait what?
That’s right, Stephen A. Smith of ESPN was featured on a segment of SportsCenter in which he claimed that Lakers owner Jeanie Buss was being “advised to trade LeBron:”
This is a wild, incendiary statement that, if true, could immediately alter the Lakers’ future in a less-than-ideal way.