As LeBron speculation dominates NBA news, this megathread is to keep all rumors, reports, trade ideas, and discussions in one place. A few things:

What belongs here:

- Rumors from reporters and insiders
- Trade proposals
- Free Agency Speculation
- Salary Cap discussion
- “Would you want Lebron Back” debates
- New updates

What doesn't belong here:

- Unverified rumors (e.g. “My cousin knows this guy…”)
- Low-effort trade proposals. (Put some thoughts into it)
- “He’s coming /He’s not coming” debate
- Attacking or insulting other users over their opinions.

Significant breaking news from reputable sources (e.g., Shams, ESPN, The Athletic, etc.) may still receive their own post at the moderators’ discretion.

A reminder:

No one outside of the LeBron camp knows where he is going. Please avoid presenting speculation as fact, cite sources when possible, and keep the discussion civil. It's fine to disagree, but personal attacks, trolling, or doomposting will be removed.

Whether you want LeBron back, don’t want him back, or are simply tired of the rumors, everyone is welcome to discuss respectfully.
This thread will remain pinned and updated as the situation develops.

I for one really hate the idea of trading our best young player under 25 for another player over 30. What do you guys think?

There's limited moves this off season. Another common scenario for the Cavs would be trading Allen for LeBron in a sign and trade.

In theory having Giannis, LeBron, Harden, Mitchell and we be stuck with Bryant/Wade as the starting center

I underestimated the firepower of the Knicks and was as angry about the sweep as anyone (game 1 was the most sickening NBA loss I've seen in my lifetime), but they are clearly legit. We were in the last four teams standing, and there is a degree of catharsis that comes with the team that crushed you winning it all convincingly. The "blow the team completely up" camp may not accept we are a piece or two away, but what do you think?

I'm so tired of losing. This game left me distraught and i had to take a nap after i was so upset. Is it time we just bring lebron home for these next 2 last seasons of his so we can make a championship run? We are most likely getting bounced the 1st round and if not then the pistons or magic sweep us.

Thoughts? i'm just so tired

Thoughts? Me personally, ew im sorry lol he cant shoot 3s and we need more defense but i guess i wouldnt hate it that much off the bench

Mitchell posted this picture with the caption "Back soon."

Seems that he would like the front office to run the team back.

What are your thoughts?

This post contains content not supported on old Reddit. Click here to view the full post

So it’s been a few hours after “The Decision: Part 3”, and I wanted to kind of ask everyone here: why do you think LeBron decided not to come back to the Cavs? Because to me, it made the perfect sense. The team just made the conference finals with half a year of James Harden, he would fit right into the starting lineup, its home and would give him the storybook ending, I can go on. I think at the end of the day, it’s about ring chasing. Now I’m not saying he’s wrong for ring chasing, but it’s very clear he sees the sixers as the best opportunity to win another title on. I think seeing James Harden’s past playoff failures, as well as seeing us get swept in the ECF didn’t help with that at all. Maybe I’m reading too deep into it but let me know what you guys think.

“I’ve talked to people in Philly, and I’m like what do you think? ‘We’re afraid it’s Cleveland,’ - everybody I talked to is like ‘we’re afraid it’s Cleveland,’ - nobody seems like they have optimism,” - @WindhorstESPN on the latest with LeBron James 👀👀

https://x.com/espncleveland/status/2074164408519959001?s=46&t=sN1nbxCMix9BkRqaMnaN0A

nice guard from arkansas. should provide some backcourt depth and will most likely get a lot time in the g-league. thoughts?

CORRECTION: his name is spelled Meleek.

Guys what do you think about LeBron coming back home to finish his career with the Cavs?

Other morning, I saw the video of Carman and Lima on YouTube discussing on why the NBA media keeps saying the Cavs are a bad fit for LeBron. Ken felt that it isn't really about rosters. It's about the fact that a lot of NBA media would hate the fact that they would have to come to Cleveland to cover LeBron again. He also went into detail on how they hated that they had to come to Cleveland when LeBron came back for his 2nd stint with the Cavs.

I remember after LeBron came back to Cleveland; Charles Barkley in a podcast interview said he had to check NBA media members who said that they wasn't looking forward to coming to Cleveland because it was too cold. A lot of these NBA media members are either from major cities or are biased towards them. Also, they feel that they won't be treated like celebrities or get to rub elbows with them. Just my .02. What do you think?

Summary

Box Score

thoughts? i mean, i understand that the season ended terribly for him but i wasn’t expecting this at all.

There is simply too much prisoner of the moment shit going on in this sub about Tuesday’s game, with remarkably short memories on what we’ve all been through, so let’s take a look at this. I’m going to limit this to non-elimination games in the last 50 years that were all varying degrees of worse/more painful than Tuesday night’s loss. I’m not going to rank them, instead ordering chronologically by team:

**Cavs**

* 2009 ECF Game 1 - enormous second half implosion to a comprehensively inferior (not counting the PEDs) ORL team after Mo Williams’ halftime buzzer beater
* 2009 ECF Game 4 - LeBron appears to have saved the season for the second time in three games only for a halfcourt heave to put the Cavs down 3-1
* 2015 Finals Game 1 - Without the freak knee injury Kyrie suffers in OT here, it’s not a stretch to say the Cavs could’ve swept the Finals in 2015
* 2018 Finals Game 1 - The JR Smith Game.
* 2025 ECS Game 2 - Donny’s perfect game ruined by an even bigger final 90 seconds collapse than Tuesday (117-110 vs IND, 99-93 vs NYK)

**Guards/Tribe**

* 1999 ALDS Game 4 - Chance to win the series over Boston, instead lost 23-7
* 1997 WS Game 5 - The Livan Hernandez Game
* 2007 ALCS Game 6 - Chance to win the series over Boston, instead lost 12-2

**Browns**

* 2007 @ CIN - playoff berth clinched with a win, instead lost to a shit Bengals team playing its backup QB, missed the playoffs bc they needed an Indy win in wk17 but Indy rested their starters.
* 2020 vs NYJ - playoff berth clinched with a win, instead lost to a shit Jets team who was missing 3/4 of their roster to COVID. Would’ve missed the playoffs without the Steelers’ stupidity/arrogance.

Late game collapses are an issue that go back to at least the 2025 Pacers series. I think it’s both a player and coach problem, and you can argue that a team led by Mitchell can't win a title, and you're probably right. But the reality is our roster is locked with Mitchell, Harden, and Mobley as the core for the foreseeable future, so a coaching change seems to be the last lever to pull.

I know wanting Kenny gone isn’t a hot take. But what do you think it would actually take for the org to move on? With the current parity in the NBA and not having LeBron, idk that Gilbert is defining success as Finals trip or bust anymore.

The only good reason I can come up with is if he is trying to wait out an AD trade when his extension eligibility comes up in 4 weeks.

Or do you think the Cavs might be working through trade partners for some of their pieces?

Thoughts?

Does anyone else feel like we ain’t gonna do much next season, i know we gonna be a playoff team but i feel like we ain’t gonna go far in the playoffs if we keep this team i feel like we need to do a big trade

For me, I see both sides of the argument. Personally I'm hesitant to make one since when healthy, this team is still very talented and could be a lot better than what their record says. On the other hand, we've been talking about injuries to the same players since 2021. I get why people are losing their patience. This was supposed to be the year where the Cavs could have an easier to path to get to the Finals due to Boston and Indiana being heavily injured, but at this moment, they would need to win a play-in game to even make the playoffs if the season ended today. What do you guys think?

Summary

Box Score

Cade would've been great, but the third pick is awesome too baby! Let's go!

​

Also just to get a discussion going: Do you think the Cavs take another ball handler in Green or Suggs? Or do you think Mobley will somehow fall to three since the Rockets need a ball handler more? Will the Cavs now trade one of Sexland? Will the Cavs trade down with someone like the Magic (a three for five and eight swap) in order to get more rookies who fit with the team (perhaps a Kuminga and Barnes situation)?

​

Edit: I finally understand the term 'RIP inbox'

Summary

Box Score