LeBron James East prediction

    by Yetundejones: LeBron James

    LeBron James on the state of the Eastern Conference: "[Jaylen Brown] going to Philly and Giannis going down to Miami... Cleveland is going to be back trying to compete... and you got the New York Knicks for sure. I think the East right now is going to be very exciting."

    Transcript (en)

    You know, Brian, I want to talk about this offseason. Obviously, there's a lot of stuff going on in the NBA. A lot of players moving around, going different places. You've got the East, the West. I think you've got Giannis going to Miami, right? You've got Kawhi going to Toronto, allegedly. I think so. The Knicks coming back after winning the championship. You've got Jaylen Brown. Jaylen Brown, yeah. What I wanted to ask you was, is this the first time in your career where the East is almost more interesting than the West? Well, I would say the first time in my career because my career started in like the 70s. But I think the excitement that's coming to the Eastern Conference this offseason has definitely been talked about a lot more. And obviously you had LaMelo go over to the Wolves. You had some things happen in the Western Conference, obviously. But, yeah, JB going to Philly and Giannis going down to my - You look at Boston every two, you know picking up Mitchell Robinson. I think that's gonna help Paul George you look at Cleveland is gonna be back, you know trying to compete you guys would be back competing. You can't forget Orlando You can't forget Detroit, you know obviously and you got you got the New York Knicks for sure So and that's not even all the teams in East obviously So I think the East right now is gonna be very exciting And I will say this is like the first time in a long time that coming into a preseason that the Eastern Conference will probably get talked about a little bit more than the Western Conference. You know, but we know the Western Conference is still the Wild Wild West, but the East is going to definitely have something to say about it coming into this year. Right. And I think...