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LeBron and AD will win a championship within the next 2 yrs – Broussard

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Two blockbuster trades reshaped Los Angeles overnight, and FS1’s “First Things First” crew wasted no time arguing about who wins first.

Within days of each other, the Lakers landed Anthony Davis to pair with LeBron James, and the Clippers answered by signing Kawhi Leonard and swinging a deal for Paul George. The July 2019 offseason produced two superteams in the same city, and on “First Things First,” Chris Broussard, Cris Carter, and Nick Wright dug into which pairing gets to a title first. Broussard’s take: LeBron and AD win a championship within two years, and they do it before Kawhi and PG.

• The Lakers completed their trade with the New Orleans Pelicans to acquire Anthony Davis, pairing him with LeBron James.
• The Clippers countered by signing reigning Finals MVP Kawhi Leonard and trading for Paul George from the Oklahoma City Thunder.
• Broussard predicted James and Davis will win an NBA championship within two years — and do it before Leonard and George’s Clippers.

Broussard’s Case for LeBron and AD

Broussard built his argument around the interior-perimeter fit between James and Davis, calling it a combination that can dominate the Western Conference right away. His reasoning wasn’t about roster length or bench depth — it was about the two best players on the floor being immediately complementary, with James creating and Davis finishing and protecting the rim at an All-Defense level.

That’s a notably aggressive stance given how the league office and most bettors were framing the two Los Angeles rosters that July. The Clippers, on paper, had the deeper two-way roster around their stars. Broussard’s counter was that peak talent and chemistry between two elite players can outrun depth in a seven-game series, and he was willing to put a two-year window on it.

LeBron and AD will win a championship within the next two years.

The Counterpoint on Clippers Depth

Cris Carter and Nick Wright pushed back on the panel, leaning into the Clippers’ case: Leonard’s two-way résumé, George’s perimeter defense and shot-creation, and a supporting cast that looked more complete on wings and in the frontcourt. The debate wasn’t about whether Kawhi and PG were talented enough — nobody on the panel argued that — it was about whether the Lakers’ top-heavy superstar fit could outpace the Clippers’ balance in a playoff series.

That tension — top-end talent versus roster depth — is the same argument that fuels prediction segments across sports every offseason, the kind of confident call that either ages perfectly or gets replayed for years as a punchline, similar to how bold forecasts get revisited years later to see who actually called it right.

Two Contenders, One City, One Question

What made the segment notable wasn’t just the prediction itself but the fact that both rosters were built in the same market within the same week. The Lakers and Clippers, for the first time in years, entered a season as co-favorites out of the same arena, and the panel treated it as a genuine title race rather than a hypothetical — the kind of instant-contender stakes usually reserved for a championship-level matchup rather than a July roster swap.

Broussard’s framing set up a two-year clock: not “will the Lakers win a title” but “will they beat the Clippers to it.” That’s a sharper bet than most offseason predictions, and it’s exactly the kind of line that gets replayed on FS1 the moment either team hoists a trophy — or doesn’t.