ESPN’s NBA Insider Shams Charania shared that LeBron James' agent Rich Paul told him "every contender" has called about LeBron. Well... the Celtics were/are a contender.

Marcus Smart and LeBron James spent the first four years of the former’s career as adversaries. Smart’s Boston Celtics and James’ Cleveland Cavaliers faced off in the playoffs three times in four seasons — James winning all three — before he made the move West to join the Los Angeles Lakers.

It’s a big offseason for the Boston Celtics, but then, in today’s NBA with a humming trade market, a bustling draft and new collective-bargaining rules dictating that ever dollar much your teams spends be closely monitored, every offseason is big.

He and his teammates have a difficult road ahead to get there, but 22-time All-Star LeBron James is imagining another installment in the legendary playoff rivalry between the Los Angeles Lakers and Boston Celtics.