What does LeBron's 'frustration' mean for his Lakers future?
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Unsurprisingly, we saw LeBron make a couple of appearances at Summer League.
A report came out from Anthony Irwin, a senior insider at the Lakers, saying that LeBron has become increasingly frustrated.
And unhappy with the direction of the team since the Russell Westbrook trade.
Is this just noise?
What, what are your take on it?
Yeah, well, first off, you forgot the main reason he was at Summer League.
His son was playing, right?
Oh you guys are watching, you gotta watch Bronnie of course last year too, exactly right.
Um, and listen, Bronny has given him reason to be excited about watching him play this summer.
That's good.
It is funny that when you zoom out from all of it, the headline is more like, report, man who opted into contract will stay with team that is paying him.
You were absolutely right to point to the notion that it is difficult to trade a $52 million contract.
If LeBron James wanted to be anywhere else, he could have opted out.
LeBron James isn't gonna go someplace else and sign for, you know, the biannual exception.
LeBron James is going to get the, the top possible dollar.
The questions moving forward are all about what does this mean like on the court next year?
What does this mean when we get to next summer and we revisit this whole question about where does LeBron want to be for the balance of his career?
Is he, does he decide that he's done?
Does he decide that he wants to play 23 more years?
He's gonna stay there to make as much money as he can possibly make right now, because he opted in and said that's what he wanted to do, doesn't seem like a super shock.
And then the rest of it is kind of all noise.
Yeah, now that the Lakers have new ownership, I'm curious to see where Rob Polinka's place in this standing is.
Like, maybe he's bulletproof for a while because he acquired he traded for Luca.
Like he got off of that, right?
Yeah, yeah, I'm curious to see where this goes.
I don't, I don't think this is gonna end up being a midseason trade or anything like that.
I think LeBron's gonna play out the final year, and then we'll see what's next.
Maybe it's retirement, maybe it's going somewhere else.
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