LeBron James Opts for Stability with Lakers Amid Rumors

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00:00I'll start with LeBron, of course, because why not?

00:03He's LeBron.

00:04He picked up his $52.6 million player option for next year.

00:10Rich Paul put out a big statement about how, you know,

00:13he still wants to win now and everybody's kind of like mad at him

00:16because he should have took less money and declined the option

00:19and signed a different deal.

00:21It seems like LeBron wants it all, Scott.

00:24He wants to get paid his big money,

00:26but also for the Lakers to load up on other good players.

00:30Listen, I don't believe for one minute that he's getting moved.

00:36Like, I've been hearing how all day today I've heard that now,

00:40the first one was Dallas, that he was going to Dallas.

00:43That was the first bad rumor I heard today.

00:46Now, anything else beyond that is uncivilized.

00:49There is no way on hell's green earth that they're getting rid of LeBron James for anything.

00:57Like, even at 23 years into the league, he is the entire franchise.

01:05That's just all there is to it.

01:06Luka and LeBron are not going anywhere.

01:09He's going to finish his career with the Lakers.

01:11I will keel over if they trade LeBron James to anyone.

01:17He is not leaving Los Angeles with all of his entertainment company,

01:22production studios, movies, TV shows, podcast, everything that he does.

01:27This guy is stuck there like glue for the rest of his life.

01:32He's not leaving Los Angeles.

01:33Even when he's done playing, he's going to own a part of a team

01:37and still live in Los Angeles. Watch.

01:41That is precisely what he's going to do.

01:43And I've even seen the Lakers might do some crazy stuff too,

01:46obviously with LeBron staying.

01:47Now, I saw before that they're going to get Aiton from Portland.

01:52Like, Portland's supposed to be buying out Aiton.

01:55And Aiton's going to go to the Lakers.

01:56He's a free agent.

01:57I think that the minute I saw that he was available,

02:00I thought the Lakers would want him because they need a center

02:03worse than people need oxygen.

02:06And that also Portland's going to send Jeremy Grant to the Lakers

02:10and they would send Hachimura back to Portland as part of all that as well.

02:14Which would be no loss whatsoever for the Lakers.