Not even Bronny James knows Lebron’s future in the midst of the speculation of the Lakers: “He just tells me not to worry”
Lebron James could have renounced his contract with the Los Angeles Lakers, but his future with the team suddenly became one of the great question marks of the low season of the 2025 NBA.
Shortly after collecting the option of his player for the next season, James’s agent, Rich Paul, not so thin suggested that his client would monitor what the Lakers would do while trying to build a long -term contender. This could mean that nothing happens this summer anymore … or something else.
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James could know what he wants to do later. Paul would probably do it even if this was the case. In the meantime, James’ older team son and Lakers, Bronny, begged ignorance when he spoke with journalists on Wednesday, through Espn:
“We don’t talk about it much,” said Bronny. “I think that when things like that occur, he only tells me not to worry, not to pay attention to it [and] Just block what you are going on right now. And that’s what will make me improve and keep me concentrated. I think it’s good that tells me not to pay attention to that stuff. “
Bronny, who is preparing for his second campaign with the Lakers’ summer league team, hinted that he was more focused on the preparation for the season:
“Obviously, being in the team, I think we will return even better than we were last year,” said Bronny. “We just have to come here and come to the gym with a purpose and be ready to work every day and be ready to improve every day.”
Whatever his son said, Lebron’s future with the Lakers is cloudy as he has never been in his seven years with the team. It all starts with the trade of Luka Dončić, who sent James’ longtime co-protagonist (and colleague Paul) Anthony Davis while positioning the Slovenian star as the future of the Lakers. James has never been the focal point of the present and future of his team.
Lebron James is under contract with the Lakers for another year. (Photo by Mitchell Leff/Getty Images)
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The Lakers were also relatively inactive in the free agency. They took a big step by hurry up the former center of Portland Trail Blazers Deandre Ayton on Wednesday, finally filling their hole in the center, but Jake Laravia was their only real addition.
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In the meantime, starting the advance Dorian Finney-Smith, he has just left for the Houston Rockets. Los Angeles could theoretically add more, but there was also a relationship that is trying to preserve the hood space for the low season of 2027.
All this adds to a very curious position for the elderly James, who will try to maximize his possibility in a fifth ring with every season he has left in the NBA. As for Bronny, he remains under the control of the Lakers during the 2027-28 season, thanks to that four-year agreement he came out of the second round of the NBA Draft of 2024.