re: What are the odds of LeBron to NOLA, and would that work?

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Bron hasn't shown any interest playing with a young team. I don't see it starting now.

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They won't be young.

It'll be him, pg, and shipping off a few of those young guys for a 3rd

Nah when healthy he’s a top 5 guy likely. Stud 2 way player that has hit clutch shots in the postseason and already has a finals MVP.

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With both teams over the cap, don't the salaries have to match?

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The way I see it explained is that it is defined as "maximum incoming salary", which would be 125% of a team's outgoing salary. But there is no minimum incoming salary that a team has to take back.

So in this example, Houston can only take back 125% of the $35.4 million they are sending out. So they can only take back a maximum $44.25 million.

In Cleveland's case, there is no minimum that they have to take back. Only a maximum of $54.45 that they can take in.

And in Chicago's case, since they are under the cap they can take in whatever.

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The other thing is that if Lebron leaves, Cleveland is more limey to blow it up and will surely get out of paying luxury tax, so I don't know why they'd want to sign and trade Lebron, taking on salary in the process.

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They would be shedding millions by trading LeBron for Gordon, putting them well below the tax. And they can also flip Gordon for a pick if they wanted to shed salary even more.

Also, that trade would give Cleveland a $22 million dollar TPE... which would be huge for them.

Lebron doesn’t want a good coach. He wants to be in control of everything.