After co-interim general manager James Jones bought out Tyson Chandler less than three weeks into the regular season so he could go join his hometown Los Angeles Lakers, many started to connect the dots with Jones’ deep connection to former teammate and good friend LeBron James.
Well, we might have been on the verge of Jones helping out LeBron once more on December 15 by shipping Trevor Ariza there, but talks quickly broke off once Phoenix was insistent on including one of the Lakers’ young core pieces (Lonzo Ball, Kyle Kuzma, Brandon Ingram, and Josh Hart).