While photos indicated that James was in Cleveland amid ongoing trade rumors, he took to social media to shoot them down.

LeBron James becoming available has, typically, been a seismic NBA event. Teams famously spent the several years leading up to his 2010 free agency clearing cap space. Pretty much all league business halted for the first 11 days of July in 2014 as teams schlepped across the country first to Cleveland and then,

Throughout the duration of LeBron James' legendary NBA career, a trade demand from him would've felt like the ultimate version of a worst-case scenario.