During the Los Angeles Lakers contest on Tuesday, fans in Indiana at the Bankers Life Fieldhouse chanted to Lakers players “LeBron is going to trade you.”  This would obviously upset anyone if their own fans told them they were going to be traded.

Ryan Ward asked James how he would handle this kind of situation. Some may even say that he's put the players into this unfair spot. It's unfair for both James and his teammates to be put in this tough spot.

James told Clutch Points:

“That's just fans being fans & if you let that bother you, you're in the wrong sport. Fans are going to be fans. I've heard all. I've been in rival games pretty much my whole life since I've started playing ball. I've heard way worse.”

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For the past few weeks or the Lakers have been putting trade calls in for New Orleans Pelicans big man Anthony Davis. He had just formally announced that he would like to be traded away from the team. Since then, the Lakers have been going back and forth trying to figure out a trade for the superstar.

Some of the young layers mentioned in the deal have been Lonzo Ball, Kyle Kuzma, and Brandon Ingram. This is almost the entirety of the team's young core. Even if the Lakers don't complete a deal for Davis, each of these young assets could be packaged in a deal for a star down the road.

The Lakers are now 27-27 and sit in the 10th seed of the NBA's Western Conference.