On February 20, Beijing time, NBA All-Star Weekend, Lakers star LeBron James accepted a media interview, when a reporter asked whether James would return to the Cavaliers to start the third period of his cavalier career? James responded: "The door to that thing is not closed. I'm not saying I'm going to come back to play, I don't know what my future holds. ”
But James said he would not take over a mid-level contract when he became a free agent in the summer of 2023 and had no intention of taking over any contract above The Promise. (In the summer of 2023, James is almost 39 years old and has to pay a maximum salary)
When reporters asked Cavaliers star Garland: "Did you talk to captain LeBron James about playing in Cleveland?" Garland responded: "No. So, what James says about the future is uncertain, but what he says next is the key.
James mentioned his son Brownie in the interview, and he looks ahead to the last season of his career, he wants to play with Brownie, no matter where Brownie plays, that's where I will go, I am willing to do anything, just to play with my son as a team. Then it will have nothing to do with money.
Brownie was born in 2004 and can run in the summer of 2023, but with his current performance, it is more likely that he will run in 2024, when James in 2023 can choose a team to sign the top salary for the next year, and in the summer of 2024, he will wait for the team that selects his son to join with a basic salary. Therefore, it is difficult to say whether James can stay with the Lakers in the future.
Lakers reporter Harrison Fagan analyzed James' remarks, and Lakers media SSR retweeted James's interview with "LeBron said he had stepped on the Lakers with one foot." Fagan retweeted the comment: The era of LeBron + Lakers is coming to an end, and now, this is a matter of time rather than a question of "whether or not".
Whether James can return to the Cavaliers is difficult to say, but in the summer of 2023 he will inevitably accept recruitment from multiple teams, unless the Lakers can improve the lineup or the probability of James leaving is very high. James is still the league's top star this season, averaging 29.1 points, 7.9 rebounds, 6.5 assists, 1.59 steals, 0.98 blocks, shooting 52.2%, so he will still attract multiple teams to compete.
Text/Yan Xiaobai