After last year’s wild trade that brought Luka Doncic to the Lakers, a lot of NBA insiders started thinking—maybe anything really can happen in this league. So, what if “anything” means the Lakers actually trading LeBron James? He has a no-trade clause, so he’d need to approve it, but there are only a handful of places he’d even consider.

One of those places? The Warriors.

The idea actually came from Bill Simmons at The Ringer. He threw out a scenario where the Lakers send LeBron north to Golden State, and Jimmy Butler goes to L.A. It sounds a little crazy, but it does sort out a couple of headaches for both teams. The Lakers get a tough, defensive-minded forward in Butler—a better fit next to Doncic at this stage than LeBron, honestly. The Warriors, on the other hand, pick up a forward who can actually keep up with Steph Curry’s style, instead of slowing things down the way Butler tends to. That’s where LeBron fits.

So, just swap them, right? Seems simple enough.

Not so fast, says Rich. Paul is LeBron’s agent. On his podcast with Max Kellerman, “Game Over,” Paul didn’t even pretend to entertain the idea. “Why don’t we just play duck-duck-goose?” he joked. He shut it down quickly: “It’s not going to happen, so why are we talking about things that aren’t going to happen?”

Technically, the trade works on paper. And you know both LeBron and Curry would love a shot to play together before they call it a career. Neither guy’s team looks like a lock for a deep playoff run this year, either.

Curry’s 37, dropping almost 29 points a night, but the Warriors are only 18-16. LeBron just turned 41 and is still putting up over 20 a game, but the Lakers are 20-11 and just lost four of their last five.

Would putting LeBron and Curry together actually work? Who knows? But it’d be fun to watch, and honestly, that’s more than either team can say about this season so far.

Still, Paul made it clear there are reasons—he didn’t really get into them, since Kellerman kept jumping in—why a Lakers-Warriors deal isn’t happening. He did admit that Butler would look good in L.A., and LeBron would fit just fine in Golden State, but then again, those guys would fit pretty much anywhere.

“You and Bill can play fantasy basketball all you want,” Paul told Kellerman. “You can do that with anyone in the league. Any team with LeBron makes basketball sense. Jimmy Butler? He plays the game right—he fits anywhere. But right now? I like him on the Warriors.”

So don’t count on anything changing.

Usman Khawaja isn’t holding back as he steps away from international cricket. Announcing his retirement, he called out the “racial stereotypes” still hanging around Australian cricket, saying the game is “still very white.” This last Ashes Test in Sydney, his hometown, will be the end of a 15-year run in the Baggy Green. And honestly, he’s going out swinging.

Khawaja, Australia’s first Muslim Test player and born in Pakistan, spoke his mind at the SCG on Friday morning. He didn’t rush it either—he spent more than 45 minutes talking to reporters, saying he was “off the leash now.” You could tell he wanted to get a few things off his chest, especially around the way he’s been treated.

He talked about plenty of old wounds but also pointed to the recent coverage of his back injury during the first match against England. According to him, the way people talked about it, you’d think he was the only player ever to tweak something. He felt like he got singled out unfairly.

“I’ve always felt a bit different, even now,” he said. “Different in how I’ve been treated, different in what’s happened to me.”

He mentioned the back spasms—something he couldn’t control. “The media and old players just came out swinging. I copped it for five days straight, everyone taking shots. Then the old racial stereotypes came in, saying I was lazy. That’s something I’ve heard my whole life. If you’re Pakistani, West Indian, or just a player of colour, suddenly you’re selfish, you don’t care about the team, and you don’t train hard enough.”

He figured people had moved past that stuff, but he’s not so sure now. “All these things came back and made me realise we’re not quite there yet.”

Khawaja pointed out the double standards. “I can name plenty of guys who played golf the day before and got injured. The media didn’t say a thing. Or guys who had fifteen beers the night before got hurt, and nobody batted an eye. That’s just ‘being Aussie blokes,’ right? But when I get hurt, suddenly it’s about my character, who I am as a person. Usually, when someone gets injured, people feel bad for them—‘Poor Josh Hazlewood,’ ‘Poor Nathan Lyon.’ No one goes after their character.”

He finished by saying, “We’ve come a long way as a society; we’re a lot more inclusive than before. But there’s still work to do, because Australian cricket is still very white in a lot of ways.”