When Stephen Curry removed the Golden State Warriors from his Instagram bio last week, speculation soon followed that the four-time NBA champion might want to relocate. Internet sleuths saw the joint post with LeBron James and the obvious conclusion: Steph to the Los Angeles Lakers.

Is there a world where the Warriors would trade one of the world's most popular players? Even if they remain a borderline playoff team for the final two years of his contract, having Curry's name on the roster may motivate Golden State to reject any suitors.

But what if Curry reached out to ownership with a trade request to the Lakers to finish his career with James, and the Warriors were willing, perhaps out of respect for Curry, to start their restructuring early and honor his request?

The immediate issue for the Lakers is finding a way to add Curry's $55.8 million salary, which would require the team to aggregate contracts, triggering a second-apron hard cap of $188.9 million. That's an issue when Los Angeles is about $45,000 below that line.

L.A. can't take back more than it sends out (without a first-apron hard cap of $178.1 million) and needs to get back to the minimum of 14 players. Meanwhile, the Warriors are almost $534,000 under their spending limit after acquiring De'Anthony Melton, Buddy Hield and Kyle Anderson—they cannot take on the excess salary the Lakers need to send out.

It's not workable without additional teams. The following four-team trade is the best approximation of what it would take to get Curry to Los Angeles, and while it may be improbable, it's not technically impossible: