tv24lakers wrote:Allow me to say this again, as I believe the point has been lost.
From a PR perspective alone, trading Lebron would be incredibly disastrous. It essentially conveys to the outside world the ineptitude of Lakers front office in trading away the biggest name in all of sports today after just 1 season. Forget free agency signings, highly sought out players would not want to join the Lakers knowing how we royally eff'd up Lebron. It would take a minimum of 5 years and all new management to make up for that blunder.
At this point we just need to accept and make the best of the situation.
It would only look stupid if you made a stupid trade and the team suffered... Don't over-estimate how concerned fans are with a team having a certain player... Laker fans are already turning on LeBron...
Also don't overestimate how much other players care what we do to LeBron... Players are concerned with themselves first.
And caring what other teams around the league think about the moves you make is a weak-sister stance... And one that ensures mediocrity.
"The Optics" is generally, some BS people bring out who secretly hope the Lakers don't get better...
The reason why we shouldn't trade LeBron at this point is much simpler than all that... We shouldn't trade him because pairing him with AD and potentially Kawhi or Kyrie, would make us way better than trading him for whoever we could get for him...
And because we probably wouldn't get a whole lot right now anyway, because those same teams in the "Optics" discussions wouldn't want to give up a whole lot for LeBron right now, thinking if we want to trade him, it's because we're desperate.
Which is why the OP decided to ridiculously include the #4 pick in a LeBron trade... Because we might have to include it in order to get anything of equal value to LeBron... Hence why trading LeBron right now would be like buying a Lamborghini, driving it around the block a couple times, and then trading it in...