The Houston Rockets have recently been mentioned as a team with a realistic chance of signing LeBron James in 2018.

James is very close friends with Chris Paul and also played on the United States Olympic team in 2012 with perennial MVP candidate James Harden.

League sources say the concept of James and Paul wanting to spend their final NBA seasons together as teammates an overstated assumption.

The Rockets also lack the cap space to sign James, Paul and Harden to max contracts, which would mean James and Paul take significant discounts. All three players are eligible for contracts starting at 35 percent of the cap.