The Lakers may be forcing James to leave, but if they stay, there will be no reinforcement, which may indicate that James is about to leave the team

The Lakers' boss has changed recently. Generally speaking, when the boss changes, past players are likely to face the fate of leaving the team. Because new bosses often have their own plans, it is obvious that they hope that James can leave, or ask James to give up the trade veto and seek the possibility of transfer.

The Lakers seem to be interested in letting James leave the team. They may think that only when James leaves can the lineup be strengthened. The current situation is that the management does not seem to be optimistic about James and does not believe that he can lead the team to win the championship again. He plans to wait for James to leave before signing other players with his salary.

The answer to James' future plans may be obvious. Pelinka publicly stated that her goal is set in 2027, which actually implies that James may no longer stay in the Lakers roster or retire at the end of the 2026-2027 season. This is also the general prediction of James' future within the Lakers, which is about two years away.

However, it is difficult to predict whether James will obey the wishes of the Lakers management. Because the current actions of the Lakers management are obviously contrary to James' wishes. Looking back on the period before Kobe retired, the Lakers management also adopted a similar forced attitude.

I have a strong premonition that James is about to leave the team, and the Lakers are clearly locked in 2027, and it is completely consistent with James' goal. Judging from LeBron's attitude of continuing to win the championship for more than a year, he and the Lakers seem to have obvious differences. As for the 1+1 contract, LeBron obviously wants to maintain the veto power and handle the situation flexibly, almost mastering the management and dominating his own destiny. However, he did not get such a contract, which shows that it was the management that was rejected, not the LeBron side.

For comparison, in the 2024 offseason, LeBron had long expressed his willingness to lower his salary to strengthen his lineup, which at least means that he had communicated with the management and the management was willing to renew his contract. Ultimately, he did accept a hundreds of thousands of dollars in savings to support Pelinka, which is the benefit of a 1+1 contract. However, this year's situation is abnormal, and according to reports, there seems to be no discussion about LeBron's future contract.

If LeBron is willing to cut his salary in 2024, he should also be willing to cut his salary this year. With just a reduction of $5 million, the Lakers can provide a contract similar to the Rockets' DFS, and then watch Ayton's performance to increase flexibility. Considering the Lakers' extremely conservative trading strategy this season, I conclude that LeBron and Lakers management have begun to have cracks.

The end of the season, the management may not have negotiated with LeBron on a contract renewal, so LeBron can only execute the contract and wait and see the future development. If 27 years are determined as a window period, then LeBron may no longer have a place in his future plans. Therefore, we should probably look forward to a big deal. I boldly guess that the fate between LeBron and the Lakers may have come to an end.

At the end of his career, James was eager to win the championship again, and he didn't have much time left! I have been in contact with Zhan Mi for more than ten years and have a relatively good understanding of Zhan’s personality. Although it looks easy-going on the surface, it is actually delicate. He must hope to announce his retirement at the celebration after the championship. Standing in the spotlight, worshipped by everyone, became Goat announced his retirement, leaving behind a legendary career that is unprecedented and has no future!

The Lakers are sad for the Lakers' current inaction and missed opportunities. I think even Rivers is much higher in the Lakers than James, not to mention James, who is already 41 years old. How can a player who scored 23 points in the playoffs and performed poorly when facing the Wolves? So far, he has not performed well against the Pacers like the Bucks' base salary Trent. Just because he gets along with him, the Lakers are willing to give high salaries such as Laravia, who has no defense and low scores, which is really ridiculous. It can be said without any politeness that if it weren't for this bad team in Los Angeles, he wouldn't have any value.