LeBron James Discussion: Not Returning To The Lakers

LeBron gave Jae Crowder a signed jersey …I couldn’t fit the whole pic

 

Not sure where he went during his time off, both physically or mentality, but he's different.

A masterclass in the first half on imposing your will.

Great job setting the tone

But the biggest difference is the defensive buy in





You can hear him in the background of Austin's interview, too.




Not bad

 

Old dude needs a scheduled break occasionally.

 

Yeah. The rest really helped him and he’s setting the tone for the team.
Love it.

 

Adrenochrome. Allegedly.

 

Cap had more help

https://hoopshype.com/lists/nba-rankings-top-10-players-over-older-than-40-years-old-ever-history/

 

That’s quite a list.

 

If this is what LeBron can look like after a few days rest, we need to rest him here and there going forward.

 

Interesting stats and was before he even took a break

 

Lol..No D in Lebron? Cookie thought?

 

Not bad for a nearly 40 year old lol

 

so mad we gave up the three on that insane block.

 

Great show from Bron and Steph. The battles are nearing an end unfortunately.



Hell of an outing. Watching him abuse the smaller matchups was high quality entertainment, even our old friend Dennis.

Could've gotten after the boards a little more but with everything else and trying to save something for the close, it's OK.

 

He delivered tonight. Plain and Simple.

Even through all the b******* and the rumors of him getting traded to GSW...I just don't see him ever doing that or wanting that when we've BEATEN GS in the play-in and the playoffs during LeBron's tenure. Funny how everyone just thinks LeBron will join Steph when it shoudl be STEPH wanting to join LEBRON and AD to have a shot at winning. GS started out hot...I think they were 12-3 to start out, and they've gone 3-11 since then, and now sit at 15-14 and 10th place in the west just a half game above 11th seeded Spurs. The wheels are falling off from GS and guess what...their next 5 are @LAC, PHX, CLE, PHI, MEM, SAC and MIA (yes they'll have 6 straight at home after @LAC but they're all tough games).

I could easily see the Warriors 2-3 games under .500 by first week of January...

So yeah I wanna see those "Steph to LA" rumors before "LeBron to GSW" rumors...because LeBron STILL dominates Steph when it comes down to it...and Lakers are still the better less desperate team at this moment in time

 

lol exactly what i was saying after the game last night--begging for someone to write the "should steph demand a trade to the lakers?" piece, if only in jest. i want the full cap gymnastics and everything. i want reporters to ask him about it before their next game.

smug mfers. they are in TROUBLE over there. you want to know how i know? because i've been watching our team for the past three years while i've also been watching theirs! i know this boat. i'm on it. but so are you. annoying that the media just relentlessly trashes the lakers, rob, jeanie, etc. and completely lets gs/lacob/dunleavy, etc. off the hook. especially after all the crowing they did during their little mini-dynasty. so. much. crowing.

well, both your timelines are up, joe!

 

The Lakers have been worse with LeBron James on the court

LeBron has already accomplished one he'd prefer to reverse: For the first time since James' rookie season in 2003-04, his team is worse while he's on the court than when he's not.

It's well-understood that plus-minus metrics can be noisy, as they're often influenced by the many players who share the court, but the Lakers' performance when James plays without Anthony Davis (minus-12.1 points per 100 possessions) is perhaps the most illustrative -- and problematic. It represents a whopping reversal of 17 points per 100 possessions from last season. In Monday's loss to the Pistons, for instance, Los Angeles was a plus-17 in the James-Davis minutes, but a minus-18 in the minutes James played without his fellow star.

James is a minus-107 overall, the NBA's second worst among those who play for a team that would be in the postseason if the season ended today. (Only Denver wing Julian Strawther, at minus-117, had a lower plus-minus heading into the Christmas games.) That makes for a stark contrast from the plus-218 James logged last season or the plus-214 he posted in 2022-23.

The bottom line is this: The 17-13 Lakers have been 8.7 points worse per 100 possessions with James on the court than they've been with him off. That huge net-rating gap is equivalent to the one between the 14-14 Wolves and the 7-22 Charlotte Hornets.

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/43126881/nba-themes-watch-christmas-lebron-jokic-wemby-defense