LeBron James' Uncertain Future with the Los Angeles Lakers

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00:00lebron james and the los angeles lakers are having themselves quite a weird off season

00:05to try and play catch up and explain this and if at any point jay why you think i'm missing

00:10something or leaving something out feel free to interject the los angeles lakers awaited lebron

00:17james decision on his player option as many of us wonder would this possibly be lebron's last year

00:23year 23 would set the record for most seasons he's also past age 40 now how much longer could

00:28this possibly go on lebron james ultimately opted in and that was it no opt-in and extension

00:35that was it just an opt-in he said that wasn't just it lebron via rich paul let it be known that

00:42they've really appreciated their time with the lakers and their partnership with genie boss and

00:47rob palenka and everybody in the organization and they understand that the organization with

00:52luka donchich now in town want to keep their eye towards the future lebron james though wants to

00:57keep his eye towards a championship and they always want to make sure that they explore the

01:03best options for lebron which started to turn some heads does lebron james not think that his best chance

01:09for a championship is with the los angeles lakers i think we could certainly have that debate are the

01:17lakers pushing all in for a championship this upcoming season very clearly obviously not why are

01:23they being given a pass for that we'll talk about that as well there's just one piece of this i'd like

01:28to clear up to make this very easy for everyone because there are a lot of people who keep going

01:32well why did lebron opt in if he doesn't want to be there lebron james finished sixth in mvp voting

01:40and made second team all nba last season not five years ago although also five years ago or not

01:48two years ago but again also two years ago it's that lebron james this past season according to

01:56any person you speak to was one of the 10 best players in the league are you comfortable with

02:02one of the 10 best players in the nba taking the minimum or playing for eight million dollars on the

02:07mid-level exception i'm not and i know for a fact that if lebron did that none of you would be

02:13as well so let's stop doing this thing where we pretend to be confused as to why lebron james

02:19who is the now 13th highest paid player in the nba which means it's a discount opted in to that deal

02:25because that right away is providing a disingenuous conversation the important conversation we should

02:33have here jy is should lebron be pleased with how the lakers are operating and do you think the lakers

02:43who are right now trying to balance a two timeline thing of win some games this year but we want a

02:51clean cap sheet in two years do you think the lakers are going about this appropriately absolutely not

02:57i mean also reeves was another person he decided he didn't want to sign an extension because he wants

03:01to wait the next year to get more money so when you look at the lakers it's a hot mess express

03:05besides the fact that when they were getting a new owner they decided to luca but they didn't tell

03:09lebron so shout out to all that changes lakers being run now by uh woody johnson in the new york

03:15jets i'm sorry here's my football reference for today's show so when you look at it folks i want you

03:20to understand this as a coach okay and and there's been times i've been on lebron but besides points per

03:26game ready in the playoffs lebron rebounds higher assist off by point two steals higher blocks higher

03:35less turnovers less files better assist to turnover ratio all more he shot better from the floor and he

03:42shot better from the three-point line than luka dodgich so you mean to tell me that lebron

03:49shouldn't be a little bit upset at what's going on that denomination is your big move now i'm a

03:56deandre now i'm not the president of the deandre fan club i'm the only person in the fan club right

04:02now with deandre it's true so he's going to be better but is that going to be what's going to move

04:07the needle for lebron james a guy that wants to win another championship see this is the thing

04:14i said a crazy comment i think during the draft or during the show why i said to kevin and kevin

04:18almost lost his mind like i zigzagged and said lebron james put pressure by saying rings don't

04:24matter in order to try and get la to do something now he's seeing la do nothing and now he's like

04:30get me up out of here he won't say it but the best thing for both parties is to move on let him go

04:41find a good trade spot for him where he could win and then you could say this is lucas team

04:48lebron is gone and let's start to see what we could do moving forward but i want people to be careful

04:55i want people to be very careful about how they do this with lebron okay because you are going to bank

05:04on luca donchich who is a phenomenal talent but his defense has been questioned his work ethic his

05:14time has been questioned and his conditioning has been questioned name me one time in his 23 year

05:23career that you've questioned one of those three things about lebron james

05:27you

05:29you

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