Fu Zhenghao: The Lakers respect James but do not allow them to point fingers at the team building plan, and they do not want to become a puppet

Media person @快快球网 posted a blog and talked about the current situation of James and the Lakers.

The original text is as follows:

ESPN two famous reporters said that the Lakers plan to break up with James in the spring of 2026 (that is, the middle of the new season). This is not a secret. The previous talk between the two sides has already indicated that there are serious differences between the two sides on the direction of team building and the current goals. It is not a problem for the Lakers to break up with James, but the problem is how to break up?

First of all, although James was selected into the second team last season, his actual transaction value was about zero. He is nearly 41 years old, has an annual salary of 52 million yuan, and it is still uncertain how long he can play in the future. This offseason, he did not contact the team he liked, and this was the first time he chose the execution player option in his career.

Although next season is a contract expired, he is a bit arrogant and holds the right to veto the transaction and has absolute voice in transactions. If he leaves the Lakers, he only wants to go to a team that can win the championship, but a team that has the ability to win the championship is unable to afford his salary, and he may not be willing to go to a bad bottom. Therefore, how to trade James is difficult to operate at the practical level. The Warriors' nursing home tried to trade James in the first two seasons, but they didn't have any decent bargaining chips either.

If the transaction cannot be traded, there is only another way left to break up: the Lakers and James negotiate to buy out their contract with an annual salary of 52 million yuan. There are currently reports that the Cavaliers are not interested in trading James, but if James is bought out, they will consider signing with James.

NBA teams are now extremely simple and crude in dealing with stars with obvious no-brain attributes, and they buy out directly without the patience of trading. This summer, the Bucks cut Lillard, and Lillard's contract with a remaining two years of up to 113 million will be paid in five years in installments. Ayton's remaining one-year, 35.6 million contract expired was directly bought out by the Trail Blazers. Of course, it is said that Ayton gave up about 10 million yuan, and he then signed a two-year, $16.6 million contract with the Lakers in the form of 1+1. If James can give up part of his salary, let the Lakers buy out and then join the championship team, there are some possibilities.

In James' previous NBA career, high salary, ball rights, superstar partners, team core status and even team voice are standard. He only thinks he and the team boss are in a partnership, not an employment relationship. Only he took the initiative to break up with the team, and he has never been broken up.

is a big team with 17 championships. Before James came, he had 16 championships, a very successful business model and extremely high business value. Are there any James? They are one of the most successful teams in the NBA and they have their own philosophy of building a team. The Lakers respect James, but they will never let James swear or publicly criticize the Lakers' team building plan, and they will not make the management and coaching staff a puppet of James' team like the Cavaliers back then.

Even though the Lakers' history superstars emerge one after another, even though the Bass family treats many team superstars such as Magicians and Kobe as close as their families, they still talk about professionalism and sense of boundaries, and are very disgusted with players' intervention in management affairs. Both Magicians, O'Neal and Kobe have encountered soft nails in this regard.

Kobe was tired of partnering with Smash Parker, Kwame Brown and others, wasted the golden period of his career. He asked the team to strengthen but was ignored, which once forced Kobe to be traded. With magicians and Kobe in front, even if superstars like James who come to shoot halfway through can give the team advice, the Lakers will not tolerate James being so strongly pointing fingers at the Lakers' team planning. What's more, the Lakers have now replaced their new boss and have the future team-building core Doncic, and James is no longer the indispensable person.

When the Lakers changed their boss, they only notified Doncic, but did not notify James. After James announced the execution of the player option, the Lakers even had a basic response and were only interested in renewing the contract with Doncic in advance. The Lakers treat James and Doncic differently. With James' arrogant heart, they will definitely plan a way out for themselves and choose another family. Both parties have written their thoughts on their faces. Now it depends on who will take the initiative to be the evil person and who will break up first. It can be predicted that the mouthpieces of both sides will have more outspoken news and shouting from the air in the future.