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LeBron James is a Philadelphia Sixer, and Bam Adebayo is not holding back his feelings about it. The Heat went all in trying to bring LeBron back to Miami, made a serious push, and came away empty. Adebayo's blunt reaction says everything about how much that sting still lingers in South Beach.
Meanwhile the trade deadline pressure is mounting in New York, and the Mets are not pretending otherwise. Freddy Peralta is headed to Tampa Bay in exchange for three prospects, the latest move in a full-blown sell-off for a club buried at the bottom of the NL East. Earlier in the week AJ Minter went to Minnesota, and this roster is being stripped down fast.
And out in Los Angeles, the Lakers are circling a familiar name connected to Luka Doncic's time in Dallas, a power forward sitting on a sixty-four million dollar contract with proven chemistry and size the Lakers desperately need. Cleveland is also in that conversation, with the Cavaliers exploring the same player as a potential alternative to their long-running pursuit of Jonathan Kuminga.
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