Hoops Tonight - WHO SAYS NO: LeBron James to Warriors, Jimmy Butler & picks to Lakers | NBA Mailbag
The Herd with Colin Cowherd
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🗓️ 29 January 2026
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Jason answers NBA mailbag questions from subscribers including how a trade sending LeBron James to the Golden State Warriors and Jimmy Butler to the Los Angeles Lakers would look, and how it would affect Steph Curry. He also discusses Luka Doncic's defense, superstar player movement, whether the Detroit Pistons should make a trade at the NBA trade deadline, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
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| 0:19.9 | All right, welcome to Hoops Tonight here at The Volume. Happy Wednesday, everybody. Hope all of you guys are having a great week so far. As promised, we're getting to your mailbag questions today. Got a bunch of questions from around the league. It's going to be fun. Can't wait to get into it. You guys know the Joe before we get started. Subscribe to this channel so you don't miss any more of our videos. Excuse me. Don't forget to like this video. |
| 0:38.3 | That helps us a lot. |
| 0:39.3 | And the last minute, |
| 0:39.8 | at least, if you want to get mailbag questions into our future mailbags, just find our full episodes on YouTube, go into the comments, put mailbag with a colon, write your question. We'll get to them. Usually on Fridays, it's just a little different because I've got some friends in town to ski this week. But usually on Fridays we'll have mailbags throughout the rest of the season. |
| 0:55.0 | That's how you get questions in. All right, let's talk some basketball. So our first because I've got some friends in town to ski this week. But usually on Fridays we'll have mailbags throughout the rest of the season. |
| 0:55.0 | That's how you get questions in. |
| 0:56.4 | All right, let's talk some basketball. |
| 0:57.6 | So our first mailbag question. |
| 1:01.0 | This one is kind of funny. |
| 1:02.7 | Who says no? |
| 1:04.0 | The Lakers send LeBron James and Bronny James, |
| 1:07.8 | and the Warriors send Jimmy Butler, |
| 1:10.6 | Will Richard, and a 2028 first round pick. |
| 1:13.9 | So, I don't know if anybody says no to this deal, other than maybe LeBron. |
| 1:19.8 | The tricky thing with this is like, if I'm the Warriors, I'm turning a massive salary slot with a torn ACL into LeBron James, who's been very much |
| 1:31.0 | LeBron Jamesy over the course of the last month and a half or so, and a guy that immediately |
| 1:35.9 | puts the Warriors back on the map as a championship contender within this season. |
| 1:40.8 | Ronnie James is just a throw-in, obviously. |
| 1:43.5 | If you're the Lakers, you get Will Richard, who is the type of player that they need, just a guard with some athleticism who can dribble shoot and pass. So, like, for the Lakers, that's amazing. In a first-round pick, turning 41-year-old LeBron into a first-round pick. Like, wow, right? I think, I think, again, |
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