LeBron James informed both the management of the Cleveland Cavaliers and Joe Johnson that he was willing to slide to power forward on a permanent basis to accommodate him.

"All I care about is winning. That's all that matters to me," James said "A piece like Joe, you know what it does to your team and if he was concerned about playing time or concerned about starting, then I'll sacrifice. I'll sacrifice to get a guy like that to help us try to win a championship."

Johnson instead signed with the Miami Heat.

James has been reluctant to play power forward on a full time basis.

"Man listen, I'll do anything to win. I'll kidnap my momma to win," James said.

James was asked if he would consider such a sacrifice in the past.

"I don't know. I don't know. I can't answer that, but I know I'll do it now," he said to cleveland.com. "I mean, you're trying to make a push. We're in March. You get a guy like Joe Johnson, you get a guy that can change your team for the better. I wouldn't have a problem with [moving to the four].

"If he wanted to come in and start and we wanted to keep J.R. [Smith] in the starting lineup and if Double-T (Tristan Thompson) or Mozzy (Timofey Mozgov) had to come off the bench in order for Joe to start and slide Kev [Love] to the five, I would have done it."