Lakers News: Bill Simmons Responds To LeBron James-To-Dallas Theory Being Aggregated

And now we're aggregating his response to the aggregators!

When news broke that The Ringer's Bill Simmons had boldly postulated, on his own podcast, that he would try to find a way to join the Dallas Mavericks to create a super team, Simmons had to know that he would be aggregated.

Simmons infamously loathes aggregator websites. And to be fair, he has a point: oftentimes, we take snippets of interviews and articles and build out extensive, extrapolative riffs on their content.

NBA Central, a frequent Twitter aggregator, often cites other sources without embedding links to the work in question, an odd practice that makes it hard for folks to understand the initial context of a quote in the first place.

To wit, it appears that they did it again with this Simmons claim about James. Simmons today took umbrage with some of the word choices NBA Central made in trying to unpack his own quote:

“Plotting” definitely 100% a word I didn’t use or even insinuate. NBA Central is content aggregation after 5 drinks. https://t.co/2dSZXNdP25

— Bill Simmons (@BillSimmons) March 29, 2023

And now here we are, aggregating Simmons' reflections on his initial aggregators. Because that's how the NBA news cycle goes, baby.

Back to the Dallas idea. So the Simmons quote in question theorizes that James will find a way to join up with former Cleveland Cavaliers comrade Kyrie Irving, young Mavericks superstar Luka Doncic, and current Golden State Warriors power forward Draymond Green to form a new powerhouse deep in the heart of Texas. 

It's a fascinating idea, but obviously one short on defense aside from Green. It would be tough to house all that talent without some really stellar role players. Ascendant young guard Josh Green, currently still on his rookie-scale deal with Dallas, would be the kind of player the Mavs would need to retain alongside all these starry new pieces.

The Russell Westbrook trade proved James still wants to team-build with his "Big Three" approach that netted him titles with the Miami Heat and Cavaliers. Given how successful the Lakers' model was in its two seasons, featuring two superstars surrounded by quality role players who made sense around them, and how unsuccessful the Westbrook era was (to be fair, he was no longer a superstar at that point, despite being paid like one), one would think James might be more amenable to the Lakers model these days.

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