Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James and Milwaukee Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo selected their All-Star rosters for the All-Star Game coming up next weekend in Charlotte.
Upon wrapping up their selections, though, LeBron James proposed a deal to Giannis Antetokounmpo, offering to send Russell Westbrook to Team Giannis in exchange for Ben Simmons.
Antetokounmpo accepted, and both players have switched teams.
There has been a trade! đź‘€@BenSimmons25 will play for #TeamLeBron and @russwest44 will play for #TeamGiannis in the 2019 #NBAAllStar game! pic.twitter.com/c9XII5sOJ1
— NBA on TNT (@NBAonTNT) February 8, 2019
Russell Westbrook and Joel Embiid have a budding rivalry going on, so Giannis said before the draft he wanted to have Russ and Joel on his team so he could play the role of peacemaker.
LeBron helped The Greek Freak by proposing a trade, a brilliant move by The King. Ben Simmons now gets to play with James on Team LeBron, while all eyes will now be on Westbrook and Embiid to see how they interact with each other during All-Star weekend.
James is the hero on Thursday. Without the four-time MVP not offering the trade, we wouldn't have been able to see Westbrook and Embiid on the same team. Now, we have to see the reactions of Westbrook and Embiid about this epic draft day trade.
The All-Star game is on February 17, Sunday, at the Spectrum Center.
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