The Dallas Mavericks are seemingly reluctant to do one thing when trading for Los Angeles Lakers superstar LeBron James.

James was reportedly asked by ESPN if he wanted to share thoughts on picking up his $52.6 million player option and speculation surrounding a supposed strained relationship with ownership, but he declined. "I ain't got nothing to talk about," ESPN's Dave McMenamin said James told him off camera.

James spoke on his Mind The Game podcast about how inspiring Jordan has been to him. Then he wrote out the headline for us: "I can see the headline already: 'LeBron wants to play with Michael Jordan,'" James said.

The honor of being sports media’s staunchest LeBron James defender isn’t something that Nick Wright takes lightly. You can think of FS1’s First Things First star as the Ra’s al Ghul of LeBron James discourse,