Amick: LeBron’s Message to Kawhi Leonard And Why His Voice Matters The Most Of All

LeBron James will sure be among the Lakers contingent who plans to convince Leonard to come to LA. Sam Amick of The Athletic believes that LeBron will tell Kawhi that he will take a more complementary role than other seasons if Leonard joins his team. This changes everything.

“Whenever LeBron James winds up looking Kawhi Leonard in the eyes again – either at the Lakers free agency meeting on Sunday or Monday in Los Angeles or perhaps some sort of side session at the James family’s home in nearby Brentwood soon thereafter – he’ll steer clear of the dirty free agency politics.

“The Lakers star won’t waste time telling the two-time Finals MVP why it could be a bad idea to sign with the crosstown Clippers, whose business and basketball brand still pales in comparison to the storied purple and gold. He won’t dissect the Toronto Raptors in any kind of unseemly way, even if there’s a conversation to be had about whether the reigning champions can remain among the elite for the long term. Nor will he bother to break down the Knicks, who are still harboring hopes of pulling off the longest of long shots with Leonard.”

Will LeBron really take the third position on the floor?

“James, the 34-year-old who knows full well how Leonard’s arrival would send shockwaves through the league’s landscape, will make it abundantly clear that he’s ready to start sacrificing again,” Amick wrote. “Only this time, with Anthony Davis already in tow and the wounded Golden State Warriors in everyone’s rearview for now, that means the prospect of him taking even more of a complementary role than ever before.

“If Leonard wants to come their way, to leave a title team behind in order to form the kind of trio that this league has never seen, then he can expect a level of deference from LeBron that we haven’t seen since his Miami days. And then some.”

There are so many things going on in LA, and there’s a growing number of reports about Kawhi’s arrival. We believe Knicks fans are sligtly disappointed. Is Toronto ready to lose Kawhi?

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