LeBron James has only so much power. He’s not the Lakers general manager. He can’t force the team to sign Carmelo Anthony.

And according to former NBA player and James teammate Kendrick Perkins, James couldn’t get the Cavaliers to sign Anthony either.

“How do you know Bron haven’t went to the Lakers and told them to sign Melo? I’ve witnessed GMs Tell Bron no several times! Bron tried to get Melo in Cleveland and the Cavs told him no!” Perkins wrote on Twitter in response to former NBAer Royce White saying James is letting Anthony down by not bringing him to Los Angeles.

White thinks James has a role in Anthony being blackballed by the league.

“All of us here that played the game at the highest level know how good Melo is, and we know that there’s no way that the Lakers would go out and sign Jared Dudley and not sign Carmelo Anthony,” White, a member of the Enemies in the Big3 league, told Fanatics View. “And another question is, while a guy like LeBron is walking around here like he’s the face and voice of the players, how is he letting his banana-boat brother hang out there in the wings? And they go sign Jared Dudley and not Carmelo? If anybody watching this thinks that Jared Dudley can hold Carmelo’s jockstrap, I’ll slap him.”

The 35-year-old Anthony has been out of the league since he was traded to the Bulls and waived Feb. 1. He appeared in just 10 games for the Rockets last season before the deal.