This thread has turned into the absurd. LeBron is still one of the top players in the game, he just had a really horrible team around him this season.
If our pick lands in the most likely spot which is seventh, I would easily include that in a package for LeBron. In fact, like I've been suggesting we do for a while now, I would trade a second rounder... not our second rounder this year but that late second from Memphis or the future Detroit second and/or cash to get the conditions taken off of the pick we owe Chicago, so I could send the Lakers our 2025 first rounder too.
pick 7, 2025 first rounder top 4 protected, Bledsoe, Hart and Winslow for LeBron James. I would then trade the Pelicans pick, assuming it conveys, for Grant. I would draft a backup center with our second rounder, I would use the TPMLE to get a veteran backup guard.
Dame, Ant, Grant, LeBron, Nurk, Nas, 2nd rounder C, TPMLE, ring/LeBron chasers and a young guy already on the roster pops and gets in the rotation as well. We would win it all.
I don't know if that would be enough for the Lakers but I would also do it if we landed the 3rd or 4th pick and Jabari and Paolo were already gone... I don't think I'd include the future first in that situation though. The Lakers get a really solid shooting guard in Hart, Winslow would start for them at the three or four with how busted their roster is, they'd be able to draft an immediate starter with whatever pick we sent them. That's a lot of holes filled and would make them a lot more competitive than they were this year. Russ would also likley contribute a lot more with Bron gone.