The lakers are moving on from LeBron James after this season and LeBron feels a way. LeBron camp “Luka didn’t even want to be a laker”.
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They should have waived him after Space Jam 2.
The thing that people dont realize or choose to ignore is that they got together and stayed together because they saw the same thing in each other...previous glory and star power. Lakers werent close to the best choice for a 34 yr old Bron. A nikka going into year 16 after playing a billion minutes used to a certain level of influence wasnt close to the best choice for them.
They made it work in the form of a chip. Woulda likely went on a run if not for covid but we did have covid. Both got exposed thereafter. Bron became human and started getting hurt and couldnt carry a squad like he used to but he still brought the drama. They had no plan or vision beyond "Hey its a star" and still approached coaches and role players like it was the 80s. So they clung together. You never heard any real discussions of separation until Luka got there, even with AD there.
All that said, I think he finishes next year there.
murksiderock
Superstar
He should just pack it up after this year; 23 years will set the record for longest career ever. End this shyt, he needs to figure out where he wants to go, and call it a career after this year...
He's been in a gradual, but annual, decline, ever since popping his hamstring Year 1 in LA. They won the title the next year....but he has never been the same player he was before then, nor should he have been, he was 34 and Year 16 when that happened. Its a clear line of demarcation, from his impact and capabilities perspective...
I can understand after winning the title, wanting to run it back. And I can understand chasing the scoring record. There's nothing left there, after 2023, 20 years in, he should have called it quits, woulda went out on a high of a WCF run...
Instead he's gonna potentially go out ugly the way a player of his caliber never should, its turning into some Aaron Rodgers shyt...
The play always should have been to stay in The East, either going back to Miami or, I remember the Sixers were a good landing spot at the time (2018). The Heat had two more Finals runs in the following 5 years, with mid rosters and Jimmy Butler as the franchise player. They woulda built a contending team for him; he woulda won the same ring he won in LA, and because he would have played in multiple Finals, he could have won another...
Going to LA, I guess I understand, I wouldn't have done it, but I get it. This listless franchise has shown many times over though, in the 7 years he's been there, that they aren't the most savvy basketball people around, and they should be held accountable for their missteps since he's been there----->I'm okay with then showing him the door, though!
Both sides have reached a point where neither is useful to the other anymore...
I'm a Bron guy straight up and down and believe, with zero qualms or hesitation, that he's the greatest basketball player of all time. I have ZERO question, but ultimate confidence, about that...
But I've been ready for him to retire, end this dumb shyt and go home. Ready for this nikka to go...
Worthless Loser
Blackpilled
Going back to Cleveland with his son makes sense. But honestly I hope Cleveland rejects that offer if Bron tried to go back. He left Cleveland high and dry twice. Don't take him back. Let him sign on with another team or retire. He can go back to Miami or some shyt.
murksiderock
Superstar
There's an old sports saying, thats been around as long as I can remember, that the superstar athlete is always the last one to realize he ain't got it anymore...
Whether that "it" is ability, or power and influence, or all of the above, that saying has been around a long, long time...
Dude has been a baller his entire life, has literally been a household name since he was 16 years old (and at least a bigger than average name in Ohio since even before then). He's been catered to every step of the way, so this is hard for him, I get it. Imagine being 40 and almost everything you could ask for, being granted to you, since you were a teenager. He doesn't know how to leave gracefully...
Its been arguably the greatest career in NBA history. Time to let it go and learn how to live as a retired superstar the way everybody else had to. Part of me thinks the nikka is afraid of life without ball, its akin to Brady's last few years. Mf couldn't let football go because he didn't know how he could live and exist without it...
Whether that "it" is ability, or power and influence, or all of the above, that saying has been around a long, long time...
Dude has been a baller his entire life, has literally been a household name since he was 16 years old (and at least a bigger than average name in Ohio since even before then). He's been catered to every step of the way, so this is hard for him, I get it. Imagine being 40 and almost everything you could ask for, being granted to you, since you were a teenager. He doesn't know how to leave gracefully...
Its been arguably the greatest career in NBA history. Time to let it go and learn how to live as a retired superstar the way everybody else had to. Part of me thinks the nikka is afraid of life without ball, its akin to Brady's last few years. Mf couldn't let football go because he didn't know how he could live and exist without it...
Pure Water
Veteran
The NBA has the worst fans.
Trojan 24
Veteran
I feel like 2018 when he dragged Cleveland to the finals was the last year he was in his "prime" imo. That was the last year where you could say he was still the best player in the world
nikka just retire already
If only so his bytch ass fans can disappear and stop trying to rewrite history
Dallas' 4 Eva
Superstar
Lebron's best chance to win a championship before he retires and have an amazing farewell tour is in Cleveland as long as he doesn't try to make them trade away the entire team to get him. If he takes a team friendly deal for once and allows Cleveland to keep most of what they have he realistically could get a ring with them and get to #5 and tie Kobe. That would require Bron to humble himself though and realize he is on the wrong side of 40... the fact he is on the wrong side of 40 is why he should humble himself.
murksiderock
Superstar
It was the last peak year we got from him, for sure. His prime at least extends thru the 2020 championship year (and you could argue maybe even after)---->but '18 was definitely the last, apex version of Bron that existed...
Which has made all the annoying nitching Kobe heads have done in his time there, that much more dumb. He was already old when he got to LA, and popping his hamstring 34 games into his first year there underscores the point---->he never played a game in a Lakers jersey, at the level he was at pre-LA for years. The Lakers never got peak LeBron James. And still brought a title to the franchise...