Yeah but the trade the Lakers were offering was a good deal, Stern just didn’t want it to happen.also Dan Gilbert from Cleveland was objecting to the trade too, acted like a big baby about it
It was a good deal, but it went against things Stern said he had accomplished, that could not be allowed to happen, not involving a team that Stern functionally ran. Stern’s gone though, and the league isn’t currently running any of the teams, and nobody seems to have picked up Stern’s parity torch. Of course the Lakers are in self induced cap hell, so they aren’t in the LeBron market anyway.