{"id":738774,"date":"2026-06-15T21:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T21:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/738774\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T21:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T21:22:08","slug":"a-lot-of-people-are-getting-on-the-lebron-james-to-the-warriors-train","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/738774\/","title":{"rendered":"A lot of people are getting on the LeBron James to the Warriors train"},"content":{"rendered":"

While the basketball world might have been focused on the generational curse-breaking title the Knicks won over the weekend, the\u00a0Warriors\u2019<\/a> rumor mill was still churning right along with an all-too-familiar name: LeBron<\/a> James<\/a>.<\/p>\n

After three weeks of calm once head coach Steve Kerr decided to re-sign<\/a> with Golden State, San Francisco Standard columnist Tim Kawakami disrupted the flow with some words<\/a> about how teaming up Steph Curry with James might make for \u201ca late marriage that might never be more convenient,\u201d as the headline reads. The June 1 column opens the door to this possibility because James might want to play for the Dubs under a mid-level exception salary (approximately $15 million), the team\u2019s West Coast location is close to his family, and he\u2019s shown interest in the past in playing with Curry<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The union has always been a possibility (and even was pursued<\/a> at least once before), but it\u2019s clear it is a lot more realistic this summer. ClutchPoints\u2019 Brett Siegel reported three days after Kawakami\u2019s column that Curry wanted to meet with James this offseason to recruit him to the Warriors<\/a>\u00a0and that the Warriors would also \u201clook to pursue\u201d the 41-year-old player. Less than a week later, Marc Stein and Jake Fischer reported<\/a> that Golden State \u201cremains legitimately interested in adding LeBron to their Stephen Curry\/Jimmy Butler\/Draymond Green core coached by Steve Kerr.\u201d ESPN\u2019s Brian Windhorst speculated<\/a> the Warriors would be where James is most likely to end up if he doesn\u2019t return to LA.<\/p>\n

The latest report came Thursday, when an anonymous source told NBC Sports Bay Area\u2019s Monte Poole<\/a> that \u201cthere is at least curiosity on both sides. … There\u2019s enough there that we shouldn\u2019t ignore the possibility. It\u2019s mostly up to\u00a0LeBron.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

By now, the will-they-won\u2019t-they of it all has to be an exhausting experience for Warriors fans, regardless of whether they want to see a longtime rival in their favorite team\u2019s colors. However, there\u2019s more for James to consider than just if he wants to have an Olympic reunion with Curry, especially with \u201c10 to 12<\/a>\u201d teams interested in him. The bigger question facing James, both\u00a0with his current team<\/a> and other potential suitors, is how much of a pay cut he\u2019s willing to take.<\/p>\n

In an interview on KNBR<\/a> on Thursday the Athletic\u2019s Marcus Thompson said that James might not be worth, say, the mid-level exception for the Warriors, arguing it would be better for Golden State to use it on \u201csomebody who will be with you for the next few years.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI think one of their biggest, last kind of hopes is that they could find somebody to take this tax-payer mid-level who ends up being like a core player, and then you can sign him off of that,\u201d he said. \u201cI think they really need to kind of take advantage of that, and it\u2019s just too risky to use that on Bron. You only exacerbate the situation because that\u2019s another old guy you gotta figure out a way to replace him for 25-30 games. \u2026 They need some youth, they need some young players, I wouldn\u2019t do it for that salary slot.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, he didn\u2019t rule out a way that James\u2019 arrival in the Bay Area could work.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf he wants to take the minimum because he\u2019s like a billionaire and he don\u2019t care about the money, then, yeah, now I\u2019m taking\u00a0Bron,\u201d Thompson added.<\/p>\n

It might not match the tension that the finals brought NBA fans, but this saga could at least provide Warriors fans some nerves in the weeks to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While the basketball world might have been focused on the generational curse-breaking title the Knicks won over the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":738775,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,288679,85],"class_list":["post-738774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-sfgsports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=738774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/738775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=738774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=738774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=738774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}