That's why it's really hard to win championship as everything should be perfect. Not just the players, but the coach and their assistant as well. They will have to form a bond with their players or maybe go and think out of the box just like what the legendary coach Phil Jackson did during his prime with the Bulls and the Lakers.


I'm not really sure what you mean by Ayton having a attitude problem. The problem that he had with the Suns is that the management didn't give him a max rookie contract and so that could have build a distrust between the two that's why he as traded. I haven't heard any issue with him with the Portland team. Or maybe I just missed that news.

The fact that the Lakers got Marcus Smart where the one who approached on him is Luka himself is a proof that the Lakers management are ready to move on from Lebron and will not build a team on Luka.

This contract extension made the Lakers fans happy that's for sure, and with this contract signing, Luka's eligible for a 5-year $415M contract extension on 2028. Well, there are lots of support from other players with this contract signing.

They have a mediocre bench if you will ask me. Vando's injured for the majority of the season, they aren't giving Knecht playing time, and Kleber? I don't know if how healthy he is for the upcoming season. Comparing their bench to other team's benches in the West, they aren't that good if you will ask me. I respect your opinion though.

As for Le-GM, he will be out next season that's for sure and the fact that the management didn't gave him a contract extension is a sign. He might retire next season as well, but my prediction is that, he will sign to another team in the 2026-2027 NBA season - maybe he will sign a 1-year deal with the team who drafted him which is the Cleveland Cavaliers, but now with a much, much lower contract. Redick's coaching performance next season will be crucial because that will be the year when they will think if he's a good coach of the Lakers or not.

Another thing that make things worse in LA is the reporters making issue worse on players, they always want to stir things up, every season although its their work, LA better stay away from issues, because distractions make team worse every time, if ever lebron get another ring is a good thing before retiring, but i hope people stop bashing the guy, and witness greatness, because we know hater or not they are going to missed the guy.

Yup, it can backfire to them if you know how to handle those types of criticizm, just adjust and prove them wrong and everything will be on your side, just like you said, it's part of being popular, all eyes are in you whatever you do there's always something that will be use against you to create noise and attentions, that will bring traffics and those people behind are generating profits.

Maybe not, let's hope for the best on him because he's shown the built that he's got and he seems committed on it. And as Ayton was also there, I think this form of Luka could also make him play better.

That's what they need as of now and it's already filled.

Looks like it's the opposite, they're forming to built with Luka by having him signed. But let's see if after the 3 years, they'll give him that extension.

Because the Mavs did him dirty with that contract when he's already eligible for a max contract.

Everyone is talking about Luka and the Lakers and there's this news about Jokic declining his contract extension with the Nuggets. I thought that this was a fake news but after searching about it, it shown a lot of results that the same news about him declining that contract. And since the talk is there about Luka, are we going to see that he's going with the Lakers? I don't think so, they've got already a big man and I think that they have to release some players since it will hit a salary cap if they're going take Jokic with them. As they say, they're close friends and maybe Luka is actually recruiting and trying to convince him play together.

Thanks, they also have Gabe Vincent, who I think can also give them quality minutes. He had some few games with the Lakers and he is hitting good outside shot. Maybe he is not that consistent, but I think he got a lot of experienced under his belt and could really help the Lakers this season.

And as you have said, a much better Luka in terms of his physical might boost the whole team as they see him grinding it hard pre season and keeping himself fit as that is one of the criticism he got from fans. I'm putting Smart like a good defender for the Lakers, not much of a scorer. But needed in crucial minutes to get a stop.

Lebron retiring as a Laker would make sense. But if I was Lakers team, I would learn when he would retire before the season starts.

We all remember the retirement tour that Kobe had, he was selling arenas for insane amount of money and yet they were all sold out. This is why I believe that they should get the date before whenever he retires, imagine how much money could Lakers make from that.

I mean why would Lebron care of course, it's illegal for them to give him some money on the side, but it is Lakers, they probably have some Hollywood connections already, so he can get paid on some "other" job more than he deserves kinda way.

In the end, if they learn one year before, on the summer, they can prepare a farewell tour, and it would be awesome.

The only question is when he will retired? 

Lebron is still not showing any sign of retirement since he is physically fit on most of his recent games. He doesn’t suffer sever injury due to his good physical strength.

He might be jumping to different team first before he will decide to retired once his stats drop significantly.

Is there a free market in the NBA, or does the player who won the previous year's MVP get the highest salary?
I came across a similar article a while ago. It was said that because Shai was the MVP, he would receive the highest contract offer next year.
I saw the news that Luka Doncic would receive $165 million from Los Angeles over three years, and I was confused.
Can teams in the NBA pay any player they want, or are there specific conditions?