If all of this LeBron James madness feels eerily familiar, it’s because the nearly exact same situation played out in the Lakers favor four years ago. In reality, it was a process that started well before that as murmurs of James departing Cleveland for southern California began before the summer of 2018, mirroring the current reports of James in 2022.
If James does indeed reverse course and leave the Lakers for the Cavaliers in little more than a year’s time, it won’t be a shocking move that was completely unforeseen. And it would follow a pattern laid out years prior as well.