James is facing 4 situations now in the Lakers!

This offseason is really tormenting for James, who was built and packaged by capital as soon as he debuted!

When the Lakers changed their new boss, they ignored him, who was once known as the "son of choice". Not only did they publicly declare that they would prohibit James from using the crown to celebrate, but they were also reluctant to give him a contract renewal with a basic salary. In a blink of an eye, James' relationship with the Lakers fell directly to freezing point. After many considerations and trade-offs between James and the agent team behind him, he finally did not dare to jump out of the contract and test the free agent market. In desperation, he had to choose to execute the player option and fulfill the contract with the Lakers with a salary of 52.6 million in the last year.

After choosing to execute the Lakers' last year's contract, James is now facing the following four situations in the Lakers. What are the four specific situations?

The Lakers continue to use James as the core of the team, and increase their efforts, strengthening his lineup at all costs, and fully cooperating with him for the fifth championship in his career. This is what everyone who supports James is most willing to see.

The second type: trade James. James's agent Ritchie Paul revealed that four teams in the league are very interested in getting James. The 4 teams include the Warriors, Cavaliers, Mavericks and Clippers. In fact, it may be true that these four teams are interested in James, but the one who is interested is definitely not James who earns an annual salary of 52.6 million. Through the transaction, the price of equating James's 52.6 million annual salary is too high, and no team wants it. Even James's parent team, the Cavaliers, publicly stated that they are not interested. The Lakers also made news through the media and were only interested in expired contracts. The Lakers have a very clear goal and have cleared a lot of salary space to prepare for renewing Doncic's contract and helping Doncic strengthen their lineup to compete for the championship.

The third type: directly put it on the slap. In the 25-26 season, James received an annual salary of 52.6 million yuan and played a bad role in the Lakers. He left freely after a year and went wherever he wanted. It is probably difficult to start a retirement tour, retired jersey, and erect statues in the Lakers after the show is bad.

The 4th type: Team buyout. The Lakers directly bought out James' last year's contract. In the end, this situation is acceptable to James and his agent team. The annual salary is a little bit, and he can also withdraw from other strong teams to continue chasing the championship. It’s just that the face is too low. People who claim to be the GOAT of the league in the end will be bought out by the team and given up. This is embarrassing and has a huge impact on historical rankings.

At present, it is unlikely that the Lakers will cooperate with James to appear in the first and second situations, nor is it likely that the fourth situation will directly buy out and let him leave in vain. The biggest probability is that James will decide whether to make a bad move in the last year, and not work hard, or cooperate with Doncic to make the final transition and handover. The ideal thing is that James announced his retirement after the 25-26 season. The Lakers started his retirement tour with a decent look on his retirement tour, making it easy to get along. As for the effectiveness of the tour, whether other teams in the league accept and cooperate is another matter.

What will James be in the final situation with the Lakers in the new season? What do you think?