The offseason hasn’t even officially begun yet for the Lakers but odds are the wildest rumor of the summer has likely already come out. Kyrie Irving’s reported request for the Mavericks to trade for LeBron James came out of nowhere on Monday and surprised basically everybody.
There has been plenty of discussion about LeBron and Kyrie teaming up this summer, but no one expected it to be like this. Kyrie was expected to come to Los Angeles if they were going to play together next season, not LeBron going to Dallas.
Why?