LeBron James hasn’t signaled he intends to stay with the Los Angeles Lakers subsequent season, however his choice is believed to be to remain put and have the entrance workplace maximize their probabilities of upgrading the roster.
“On LeBron, look, I can not sit right here and actually inform you I do know what LeBron desires out of life,” mentioned Zach Lowe on his podcast after the commerce deadline. “Every thing I’ve heard for years, together with right this moment, is that if he has his druthers, he wish to end his profession with the Lakers. There are pipe dream eventualities on the market the place, like, properly, Philly has all this cover area, may he choose in and ask for a commerce to Philly? I have not heard that these issues are actual. I feel he desires to complete his profession a Laker. I feel he in all probability will choose in. Is he actually opting out of $51 million?”
Lowe provides that the scenario would probably really feel completely different had James and the Lakers not received the championship in 2020.
“In case you speak to individuals round him, that title actually modifications the notion of how possibly feels about what this Lakers’ run is and may very well be going ahead,” mentioned Lowe.