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LeBron James Discussion: Not Returning To The Lakers

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LA Bron said: ↑

It’s LeBron. People will hate no matter what he does.

Takes Max
“Look at him. Doesn’t want to win.”

Takes 3M Less
“3M?! He doesn’t need money.”

Signed for the Vet Min
“HE’S STACKING THE DECK!”
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abeer3 said: ↑

yeah, he's got a consistently weird way of talking/press releases. i guess it's better to be careful with your phrasing than to just speak wildly off the cuff, but he comes off like an AI poet half the time.
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He comes off like a Snake Oil Salesman.

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FrontOfJersey22 said: ↑

He comes off like a Snake Oil Salesman.
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Because he is. He's a weasel.

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Some interesting quotes in here

"Just imagine if you were a kid, you were born into a situation where your dad was super famous, super wealthy and you the kid still had the drive to want to be able to accomplish things for yourself," LeBron continued. "I personally don't know if I would've been able to do that if the roles were reversed. ...

"When I was coming up, I had no choice. I literally had no choice. ... I had to make it out for me. My mom, my family, my hometown, my city. Bronny has all the choices in the world. If Bronny wants to stop right now or never played basketball or just wanted to be a gamer or wanted to be a chef or wanted to be nothing to whatever, he could have done that. ... People don't understand how hard that is and the commitment for him to be coming out of heart surgery less than a year ago, for him to be able to be in the NBA, the kid, he's special.

"But he doesn't care. He doesn't. It doesn't bother him."
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LeBron's agent, Rich Paul of Klutch Sports, told ESPN that his client was willing to take even less money in order to open up the $12.9 midlevel exception for the Lakers to use to try to sign an "impact player." The players that fit that bill included Klay Thompson, James Harden, Jonas Valanciunas and DeMar DeRozan, sources told ESPN.

L.A. was unable to land any of them.

"It takes two to tango," LeBron told ESPN of the Lakers' failed attempts. "I think our front office, our coaching staff, they tried to do the job that they wanted to do or tried to get guys to come and it didn't happen. And that's OK. That's part of the business. I've been in this business long enough to know that sometimes it happens, sometimes it don't.

"So we don't sit here and lie about or cry about it. We move on and Klay's a great player. Obviously DeMar's a great player. Valanciunas was one of those guys who ended up going to Washington, was someone that was in talks with us, but we move on to see how we continue to get better.
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The roster he'll join looks mostly the same as it did when it lost to the Denver Nuggets in five games in the first round of the playoffs. Yet LeBron said he still believes he can win another title before his tenure in L.A. is finished.

"Of course," LeBron told ESPN when asked about the possibility of the Lakers contending again while he's still with the franchise. "Because we've done it before. We've done it before and we still have two guys who commit every single day with myself and AD. We commit to excellence and commit to win. And we feel like any situation, any given year, we can put ourselves in a position to be able to succeed. And we're not that far off.

"We were one year removed from the Western Conference finals. Obviously, this year it didn't go as well this past year. Didn't go as well as we would like, but we're not that far off.

"And there's so many teams in the league ... But we don't see that we are that far off in the West."
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The question remains just how far off retirement is for James, who will turn 40 in December. If he plays out the contract he just signed, he will have served 23 seasons in the league -- beating Vince Carter's all-time record of 22.

"I mean, it could be [the last contract I will ever sign]," LeBron told ESPN. "I'd never sit up here and say, 'Oh, maybe not.' Yeah, it could be. Easily. But we'll see what happens."
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Weezy said: ↑

Some interesting quotes in here

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This is good.

We still have our assets. I still think we're right around 5th to 6th right now if everything goes right, and that's fine.

However, if he suffers an injury or AD for any extended period of time, we're a play-in team, and that's increased x10 because of his agent and AD's fragility.

But thanks for the quotes.

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Weezy said: ↑

Some interesting quotes in here

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All I need to “understand about Bronny” is that he works hard to significantly improve. He’s a project- nothing more.

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Some interesting quotes in here

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LeBron's point about Bronny is valid. It does take dedication. We'll see how real it is.

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after the two to tango bit, there's an abrupt cut. i want to know what he said there because he was clearly still talking about it.

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abeer3 said: ↑

after the two to tango bit, there's an abrupt cut. i want to know what he said there because he was clearly still talking about it.
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I think it was probably just the bit from the article

”It takes two to tango," LeBron told ESPN of the Lakers' failed attempts. "I think our front office, our coaching staff, they tried to do the job that they wanted to do or tried to get guys to come and it didn't happen. And that's OK. That's part of the business. I've been in this business long enough to know that sometimes it happens, sometimes it don't.”

"So we don't sit here and lie about or cry about it. We move on and Klay's a great player. Obviously DeMar's a great player. Valanciunas was one of those guys who ended up going to Washington, was someone that was in talks with us, but we move on to see how we continue to get better.”
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Bron has handled this really well.

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I think it was probably just the bit from the article
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ah yeah, forgot.

i'm also still wondering about the valanciunas situation, as we're discussing in the other thread. still think he'll be available in december if we were really serious. at that point, you can swap gabe and seconds for him--something that wasn't really possible right now.

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Lil' Melo is smart. Might have some repercussions at home. But he's knows how it is.

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Well, LT, now that LeBron has resigned it is time for you to quit complaining about him and get on board...lol.

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WUT? You’ve got me confused with others …. as far as the basketball side of the discussion.

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yeah, who here doesn't LOVE LeBron?

That's crazy talk.

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yeah, who here doesn't LOVE LeBron?

That's crazy talk.

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Those of us who aren’t narcissists.

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Oh ye of little faith…

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