Will Lebron James return to the Lakers Media Day between the year? ‘Perhaps’
Was there so much soil to cover the Lakers Media Day, so many questions about this team that was heading towards the season: is it “lean” Luka Doncic ready to guide this franchise and a better list built to play around him? Can Deandre Ayton be the high -level defensive that this team needs to be in the paint? Austin Reaves is a good form playing alongside Doncic as a creator of secondary or tertiary shots, or his skills are too redundant and the defense is too big?
Yet everything to the average day seemed to return to Lebron James and his future. For the first time in his career, Lebron is not the main goal of a franchise and will be a free agent next summer. What are his plans? The atmosphere can be summarized by a video, when Lebron appeared on the broadcast of the local cable network of the Lakers and the conductor Chris Mcgee asked him if they would have seen him next year at the Lakers Media Day.
Lebron used more words to say “maybe” To the question about his future by journalists.
“I don’t know when it’s the end, but I know it’s long before …
“It would literally be my decision, together with my wife and two of my boys they have already gone … it will be a decision between me, my wife and daughter. There will not be even a meeting with my teammates.”
LeBron’s decision will also depend on how this season takes place in Los Angeles. Will Lebron play another season after this? (The conventional wisdom around the championship is yes, but nobody is sure, probably not even Lebron.) If he plays another season, do you want it to be a farewell tour? In this case, is it in a Lakers shirt? A knife of Cavaliers? Another team?
For Lebron and the Lakers, the attention as a training open is on the qui-e-hour. Lebron said that his motivation to put all the job to return this season was quite simple.
“The complete season with Luka,” said Lebron.
The way that entire season with Lebron and Luka will have had everything to ask with the other questions to the Lakers training field. For his part, Doncic seems ready to guide and show some athleticism and motivation added to the Eurobasket.
The biggest question is around Ayton: the Lakers need a large body center in the paint to defend themselves from one end, so they put the screens for Doncic and roll strong on the edge on the other. What the Lakers need is a return of Ayton’s 2020-21 version, when it was all those things that played next to (and are pushed by) Chris Paul in a Suns team that reached the NBA finals.
“It’s the greatest opportunity I can say about my career” Ayton told Media Dayunderstand the implications of this season on his next contract. “Some people say it’s my last leg, some people say it’s my last chance. This is an opportunity that I can say that I will not really take it for granted. It is almost like a wounded animal. I feel all the tension and I know where I am. I was in the gym every day.”
Ayton will be driven by Lebron and Doncic, but the latter is enthusiastic about having a center of this caliber.
“I was very excited when they told me we were trying to get from,” said Doncic. “Obviously, we have entered the draft together. I have known him for a long time. So, I am very enthusiastic about having it in my team.”
Doncic is also enthusiastic about having an entire season together with Lebron James, two of the highest players of Qi and best passers -by the League, which should create a fun and difficult to protrude offense. If he does, would this Lebron more likely to return for another year?
Perhaps.