Annual salary of 52.6 million, I am disliked to stay in the team and it is difficult to be sent away! James may be the time to retire tomorrow summer

This year's offseason is different from the previous years. When the Thunder and Pacers Finals were in full swing last season, Durant was sent to the Rockets, and Bain also exchanged five first-round pick chips (four unprotected first round + one first-round swap) and sent to the Magic. When the trading market opens, it is basically possible to determine who will be the offseason winner on the first day. The Rockets get Capela + Durant + Finney Smith, and the Nuggets get Cameron Johnson + Hardaway Jr. + Bruce Brown + Valan (the Nuggets may force themselves to stay). Both teams have the capital to challenge the championship Thunder in the new season. In addition, among the top six in the Western Conference, the Timberwolves entered the Western Conference Final for two consecutive years, but the framework has not changed; the Clippers made up for Lopez, and the team should not be underestimated.

There is only one team left, and is left in the spotlight because their offseason operation was really too failed, and it is the Lakers. After the trading market was opened, the Lakers signed Laravia for 12 million in two years and 16.6 million in two years and 18-year No. 1 pick Ayton, and also renewed the contract with Hayes. At least the team finally has a center to use in the new season. However, due to Finney Smith's departure, the Lakers' assisted defense sweeping ability in the new season will definitely decline sharply. What's more, James is 41 years old, Reeves and Doncic are also players of strong offense and weak defense, and the lower limit of the Lakers will become very low in the new season. In the medium and long term, the Lakers' goal of building a lineup around Doncic remains unchanged, but in the short term, they are bound to their hands and feet, and the reason lies in James.

Let's start with a detail. Teammate Irving analyzed the situation of the Lakers, Doncic's joining, and James' team found that he had been in a stage he had never experienced before, becoming the team's second-person, and would not ask for his opinion on lineup adjustments. When James executed the $52.6 million player option, agent Ritchie Paul issued a statement bluntly saying that he needed to see what Lakers management did in the next week before deciding James' future. But things are not that simple. James has the right to veto the trade, so the Lakers cannot send him to a team he doesn't like; James wants to buy out the contract on his own initiative, but the Lakers will not agree (the Lakers are definitely unwilling to sacrifice their commercial value in vain). Ritchie Paul said bluntly that James wants to compete for the championship and hopes that the Lakers will support him. Can it be supported?

are just two options. The first one is to increase the goal around Doncic + James. Obviously, the Lakers are unwilling to do so. They even stopped Ma Wei's trade before. Even if they got Ayton, the Lakers' defensive lower limit in the new season determines that the upper limit of the playoffs will not be high. After all, the Lakers were stuck by James' $52.6 million contract. The Lakers' total existing contract salary has reached 193 million, and the operating space is very small. They can only wait for James' contract to expire next summer! The second type is to send James away and directly say the answer: the probability is almost equal to 0! If James leaves the Lakers, he must hope to join competitive teams, such as the Cavaliers, Knicks, Mavericks, and Warriors who are slightly interested in him.

is not easy! The new labor agreement stipulates that the team can always absorb 125% of the salary, and James' annual salary next season is $52.5 million, so the Cavaliers can match it by at least 43.3 million from Allen + Hunter; the Knicks can match it by Bridges + Hart's 4440, and the Mavericks can match it by Clay + Washington + Gafford. But the Knicks and the Mavericks triggered the second rich man's hard hat, and the transaction could not be completed! If the Cavaliers package the contract, it will also trigger the second rich man's line hard hat, which means that they must accurately match their salary before completing the transaction. The Cavaliers really want to get James, at least they need to get Garland, and Hunter + Allen + Struth are two of them. To put it bluntly, this is equivalent to the potential next player's championship competition framework being broken up.

Including the Warriors, if you want to get James, you must give Butler to make up your salary. Maybe the Warriors are willing, but are the Lakers willing? Finally, after James and his salary space are freed up, he will be a burden to the two-year, $110 million Butler. How long will he delay the reinforcement around Doncic? James's reality is that staying in the Lakers is indeed disliked. Of course, the Lakers have known for a long time that James will implement the player option and have no intention of providing James with a new contract extension to James tomorrow. They are preparing to free up salary space to strengthen, so whether this summer's operation actually has little to do with James. Doncic is still young and he can wait, but James can't. But James can't get away even if he wants to, because a competitive team really can't afford his big contract.

Borrowing the famous reporter Windhorst, James and his team should understand the importance of the support of Lakers fans for the huge commercial value of Lakers' former legendary Magic Johnson, O'Neal, Kobe and others after retirement. At this stage, as a shrewd businessman, is James really willing to take this risk and choose to leave the Lakers? James' future path is basically certain. He will retire as a Lakers player until next summer. As Los Angeles media analyzed before, the Lakers are willing to let James say goodbye for the entire season next season and get along well with the Lakers. As for the future, it was the era of Doncic.