The Los Angeles Lakers want to build a promising team in the NBA – which is why LeBron James could be traded in his career for the first time. At the same time, Bronny James is currently causing a sensation in Summer League and shows that there is more in it than the superstar son.
As a possible “Goat” you have an advantage that hardly anyone talks about. While a lot of his colleagues in the NBA are walked back and forth between the clubs, the one of many as best basketball players ever had to move at short notice (and maybe unwanted).
Lebron James has already changed three times, but always as a free agent and out of freely. Even now he doesn’t have to worry about his NBA colleagues because he can reject a trade as the only player due to a contractual clause. And yet he could be traded for the first time before his 23rd season.
Lebron James and the Lakers: Present against the future
Although James pulled his player option and thus extended his contract by one year, his future at Los Angeles Lakers is open. The club has long made it clear that Luka Doncic is the new face of the franchise and that the team is to be developed into a real title candidate again. At the age of 40, James, on the other hand, is concerned about short -term success.
Lebron James (left) in the playoff game against the Minnesota Timberwolves
“LeBron wants to fight for a championship. We understand how difficult it is to win now and prepare for the future at the same time”his agent Rich Paul said at “ESPN” in the course of the contract extension. Nevertheless, the public has been discussing in public every day about which team James can switch to. With a content of $ 52.6 million, his new club would need the corresponding financial space and short -term goals so that a trade makes sense.
There are many speculations, but not so far. And maybe it won’t be there and James continues to play in the lacers jersey, with whom he was able to win one of his four NBA titles in 2020. Then it would be the first time in his career that he would not be number one of his team, because from now on the leader is in Los Angeles Doncic.
Bronny James inspires in the Summer League
At least James Senior was no longer wanted with the Lakers – but at James Junior, that could suddenly be the case soon. Last season there were always discussions about whether Bronny James had the class for the NBA at all or that he can only play in the best basketball league in the world because he is the son of the mega star. But now he manages to make these discussions flatten out.
In the Summer League, the preparatory games, in which the teams let their talents play their talents, the critics are amazed at the past achievements of the James sprout. Bronny achieved 15.5 points, four rebounds and three assists in the past two games at a time of 24 minutes per game. The 20-year-old has primarily decided to become more competitive on the defensive.
Bronny James in the game against the Dallas Mavericks (right)
“I definitely think about playing more aggressively – but I shouldn’t lose my defensive drive. To get on the field, I have to be defensively” “said James. He knows that he will only get a chance from the Lakers if he shows that he can keep up if the “big ones” are on the pitch and not just the talent.
Bronny James can have hopes for more minutes
In the second row, James shone last season. In the G-League, he came in the Lakers farm team, the South Bay Lakers, in eleven games on average almost 22 points and over five rebounds and assists. It is practice that Bronny James helps. “From game to game you become safer”he said now.
The fact that he will be a starter at the Lakers in the new season is extremely unlikely, at least for the time being. But his role could improve through the better defensive. When his father Lebron James leaves the club, a gap in the rotation would also result, the minutes of the game have to be distributed to new players – and Bronny James throws his hat in the ring to get some of them.