Bill Reiter (CBS Sports) on the Russell Westbrook trade: There was a strong level of disagreement within that Lakers organization about whether or not Russ was the person they needed to pursue.

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Windhorst The Los Angeles Lakers would be very open to the prospect of trading LeBron James for Jarrett Allen

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Windhorst LeBron's intention is to play and the focus right now is making a deal with the Lakers They are negotiating I think he's going to try and make a deal with the Lakers The league generally believes the two sides are going to come together

Windhorst Hes only worth 30M instead of 50M youre not getting that from LeBron James LeBron James doesnt believe in that and I dont expect him to accept that If youre the Lakers and if you force LeBron to leave hell go somewhere else and play for less money