 and not at a veteran minimum contract is if LeBron will take less in his contract for this year. They have a verbal agreement. From my understanding, it hasn't gone to paper just yet. So they were hoping to be able to talk Clay Thompson into joining the Lakers, work a sign-and-trade with the Warriors. Instead, he ended up going to the Mavericks at similar money, maybe slightly more in Dallas than he could have gotten in L.A., but...