Los Angeles Lakers’ LeBron James needs to be traded to….
The former NBA player, a close friend of James, recently suggested that the Los Angeles Lakers superstar needs to be traded to the Phoenix Suns or the Philadelphia 76ers.
“I just feel bad for him, the situation that’s going on in LA right now,” Oakley said on the March 14 episode of Club Shay Shay hosted by Shannon Sharpe. “… He deserves better than that. I don’t know what’s going to happen. He might have to get out of LA. I hate the fans to hear me say that. He needs a ring. He needs a ring and I think that he might have to leave to get it. And the two places that he can probably get it in right now is either Phoenix or Philadelphia.”
Los Angeles Lakers’ LeBron James needs to be traded to….
It appears that Oakley’s interview was recorded sometime before the Feb. 10 NBA trade deadline, because Oakley suggested James going to the 76ers for Ben Simmons in the video.
Simmons was traded to the Brooklyn Nets in the James Harden deal before the deadline.
“Phoenix will make the money match because that’s what they need,” Oakley said in the video. “I think Phoenix this year … I like them. They have been consistent the last two years.
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Most of the time when you get to the finals and you don’t bounce back the next year you ain’t never going to get back. And they are playing the same way they played last year, but they are playing smarter and better.”
