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Los Angeles Lakers: How LeBron James probably saved the NBA

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LAS VEGAS, NV - JULY 15: Head coach Tyronn Lue (L) of the Cleveland Cavaliers talks with LeBron James of the Los Angeles Lakers after a quarterfinal game of the 2018 NBA Summer League between the Lakers and the Detroit Pistons at the Thomas & Mack Center on July 15, 2018 in Las Vegas, Nevada. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and or using this photograph, User is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images)
LAS VEGAS, NV - JULY 15: Head coach Tyronn Lue (L) of the Cleveland Cavaliers talks with LeBron James of the Los Angeles Lakers after a quarterfinal game of the 2018 NBA Summer League between the Lakers and the Detroit Pistons at the Thomas & Mack Center on July 15, 2018 in Las Vegas, Nevada. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and or using this photograph, User is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images)

 With one questionable decision, by signing with the Los Angeles Lakers, LeBron James might’ve saved the NBA

The NBA wasn’t necessarily broken and even if it was it’s certainly not fixed, but what LeBron
James did this summer will, at the very least, help shakeup the Association.

And, in my opinion, keep it from losing popularity.

The NBA needed LeBron to make a big splash free agency, and by signing with the Los Angeles Lakers that’s exactly what he did. Even though the LeBron-led Lakers aren’t going to run the Western Conference next season, much less the NBA, the best player simply on a storied franchise  adds value to this upcoming campaign.

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The simply intrigue that it represents outweighs any moves that the Cleveland Cavaliers could’ve made to keep LeBron happy.

From a newswire standpoint, LeBron on the Lakers is going to be one of the best narratives in all the league – potentially even more so considering that this team still has a ton to figure out. Especially when it comes to their roster construction. This move, at the very least, will give us a distraction from the Warriors absolutely dominating every team in the NBA.

In fact, I might go all the way to say that LeBron James helped save the NBA. At least when it comes to the immediate future. I’m not sure how many more years of Cavaliers-Warriors in the NBA Finals we, as a general public, could’ve taken. Especially with how much of a discrepancy there was between the two teams over the course of the last two meetings.

Are the LeBron-led Lakers going to knock off the Golden State Warriors in the Western Conference Finals? Absolutely not. Not as they are currently constructed. Heck, you could even make a solid argument that they won’t even have home-court advantage in the first round of the playoffs.

Still, I can’t help but think that LeBron James, even in the simplest of forms, helped save the NBA from potential disaster.

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