The King’s Cup

This is incredible. Every year the NBA should allow a free agent to volunteer as tribute for the NBA cup award. Whomever gets selected (panel of Simmons, SAS, and Windy) receives a 3 year contract matching the top current contract in the league, and then sits out the start of the season. The team that wins the cup gets the player but only 25% of their salary counts towards the cap (0% is crazy guy). The player has to sit courtside during the final and has to come on the court for every jump ball and is responsible for deciding on challenges. The winning team has to then determine which player on the roster will be replaced, and then they execute this player live on court during the trophy celebration.

Lakers winning that would be so fucking funny

Only if they rename it the NBA LeCup 🏆

and a giant decorative cake should be wheeled to the center of the court and LeBron can pop out it like Marilyn Monroe

This is actually a great idea

LeBron should be banished to Sacramento.

This might be the best stupid summer idea I’ve ever seen on here.

NGL. This is actually a good idea. (Completely serious)

LeBron Cup, right now. Off season basketball.

I think everyone agrees this would be a fantastic idea and I am sad that it won’t happen

Lebron’s chasing that number 2 spot in assists. No way he sits out any extended period willingly

Loser of the cup gets Bronny

Imagining LeBron suspended above the court of Hinkle Fieldhouse like a WWE ladder match.

Give LeBron to Iran for peace ☮️

I’m down for this because there is a chance that some awful team goes on a short heater run and gets LeBron, only to win 20 games all season.

And when I saw some awful team, I mean the Nets.

Funny thing is, LeBron can just decide and announce that this is what he will do. You don’t even need the league to make a whole thing out of it. Nothing stopping this from happening (I guess the salary cap thing but whatever, he can also just take the vet min)

Bah gawd that’s Darvin Ham’s music!

Pocket full of Sunshine by Natasha Bedingfield begins to play

Okay, this idea is so silly that it’s actually awesome.

You know what the best part is? This shit is over after like, the first third of the season. So, no need for load management, you just get LeBron for 50- 55 games or whatever the hell.

I like it. I don’t think James would, but I do. lol.

The winner gets both LeBron and Bronny.

And it’ll be named 2Brons1Cup.

LeBron should be sitting on a throne the whole game, and the throne is hanging from the rafters.

I think every team aside from the ones he’s already played for should get him for one game, and then after those 27 games there should be a fan vote to determine which team he plays for after that

Close but you’re way off.

LeBron is hanging above the ring and the Cup finale is a ladder match!

What a fun idea

Someone send this to Adam Silver rn

Yohhhh I’m down for that, would be crazy NGL, King’s Cup goes hard

Why punish the winners? This makes no sense

This is a brilliant idea. I’m going to write an article based off it

I honestly hate that I don’t hate this lol.

I know this is somewhat in jest— but I love the idea of giving the team other perks besides $$. Organizationally, giving the cup winner for salary cap flexibility without luxury tax/apron ramifications would make teams play HARD.

What if they do the NBA cup then the team that wins goes into a final 4-team bracket with the 3 previous cup winnets?

OP, it’s actually not that bad of an idea LMFAO.

But TBH, in order to make these games more watchable, I think they should award the winner of NBA Cup tons of points counted towards playoffs. Winner gets 10 wins worth of points, 2nd 5 wins, rest none or something like that.

SOMETHING needs to be offered other than just some cash and I think that win points would actually be something worth playing for.

And does the loser get Bronny?

We could watch lebrons reaction when it’s suns vs grizzlies.

LeCup

I honestly believe teams would play so damn hard lol I like this

LeCup

LeBron on a Forklift Match

Time for Pockets and the Prince that was Promised to show who’s the boss (of the NBA cup)

What if NBA Cup winner gets their 1st round pick bumped up 10 spots? (Or if already traded, they get a 1st rounder back directly after what would be their original pick)

LeBron is now the trophy wife

this is unironically what Lebron/Rich Paul are pitching for NBA Europe

first international team is getting Lebron, bookmark this comment

lmaoooooo peak summer

Prime offseason post

Oh, have I got your attention now? Good. Cause we’re adding a little something to this month’s sales Cup contest. As you all know, first prize is a Cadillac Eldorado Lebron James. Anyone want to see second prize?  Second prize’s a set of steak knives Ben Simmons.   Third prize is you’re fired Bronny.  You get the picture? You’re laughing now?

This is the kind of unhinged offseason idea I can get behind. Bron at $32M off the cap for a playoff run would make those Cup group stage games actually watchable.

Your NBA cup champion… the Memphis Grizzlies.

I can’t put down LeCup

I’d like to propose a twist to your idea. LeBron gets max contract, but from the league. Doesn’t count against the cap as you said. He chooses where he starts this contract. Whoever beats the team with LeBron in a game, gets LeBron. This last until he retires.

Toronto respectfully declines and nominates the Lakers to come get they mans

Winner gets the GOAT

Yeah whoever won the cup last year should get him, who was that again 🤔 👀

Technically the first NBA cup winner had this happen.

The NBA turning into The Bachelor would be top tier TV.

The Holy Grail 

For tribute

Getting players on a retirement tour for no cap hit for winning the cup would actually be kinda fun. Let’s them rest longer too.

Best idea so far for LeBron’s next season!

Naw, rather see all of the GMs fight in a King of the Mountain battle royale for the right to sign him.

I love this

So you want teams to tank the Cup?

Be hilarious if the Lakers won. “Just when I think I’m out…”

What’s to keep him from sitting out until October and then signing with the team with the best record?

This is actually an incredible idea

The prize is slow-ass ball hog and his D-League failure son?

He should follow the steps of Marbury

LeChina incoming

I’ll go further with your sick proposal: from now until LeBron retires, every NBA Cup is for control of LeBron. After the win, each team gets to say “King me.“ 

lol so you want to hand feed LeBron a championship by putting him on the best team..

Hey OP, April’s Fool been over for like, 3 months.

imo lebron should be able to decide which team he wants to play basketball for

Worst prize ever

The lamickey cup

Call it the Swackhammer Cup

What if they don’t want him?

so the knicks get him first? 🤪

If he really wants to be the goat he should win a title in Chicago like Jordan

The loser gets Ayton

Yeah I legitimately like this lol. It would be fun as fuck. Buuut you’d have to change some things because the optics may be weird. So LeBron would need to be able to veto it but his salary for his next team goes down or something. Some kind of penalty. Because otherwise… yeah bad optics lmao.

Looser gets Victor Oladipo

I think we outlawed that practice (outside of prison’s unfortunately) in 1865

The Knicks won the NBA Cup by beating the Spurs and they later won the championship the same way. If Lebron wants to go to a team to compete for another championship, I think this is the best way.

This is brilliant

Imagine OKC winning and being like Nah actually we’re good 

The ratings would rival the World Cup

Winner gets to have their team removed from rich paul’s whiteboard

Eww, the fuck is this? Lol.

I’m sure teams are just dying to acquire max contract 45 year old Lebron