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ESPN NBA insider Shams Charania shared a strange \u201cwrinkle\u201d regarding the LeBron James free agency sweepstakes during a July 9 appearance on ESPN. <\/p>\n

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\u201cAll of the information has funneled through agent Rich Paul with LeBron James. So [interested teams] have been in the process of gathering information. One interesting wrinkle has occurred\u2026 some of the leading suitors for LeBron James\u2026 have been able to send a voice note to Lebron James, via Rich Paul,\u201d Charania said. <\/p>\n

\u201cWhether it\u2019s an owner, a president, or a general manager, being able to record a voice note, I\u2019m told, send it to Rich Paul, and that makes his way to Lebron James. That\u2019s a part of LeBron James\u2019 process,\u201d he added. <\/p>\n

Shams added that LeBron isn\u2019t expected to make a decision any time soon, and noted that it\u2019s \u201cunclear\u201d whether the Cleveland Cavaliers of the Miami Heat\u2014who are seen as favorites to land LeBron at this point\u2014are among those who\u2019ve sent LeBron a voice note. <\/p>\n

While the prospect of sending voice notes themselves isn\u2019t inherently strange, the fact that NBA front office and executives must resort to that in order to communicate with LeBron\u2014not directly, but instead through LeBron\u2019s agent, Rich Paul\u2014is enough to raise eyebrows. <\/p>\n

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LeBron is clearly being tough to access on purpose, which is making the process to sign him more difficult than usual. <\/p>\n

But these interested teams (which Shams mentioned were the Heat, the Cavaliers, the Golden State Warriors, the Minnesota Timberwolves, and the Philadelphia 76ers) will to whatever it takes to sign James\u2014even if it risks coming off as a clingy or desperate. <\/p>\n

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