James and the Lakers had a bad time, and the most recent trigger was that Pelinka did nothing before the trade deadline, and with the urine of the Lakers management, it was not good to say whether Pelinka did not want to do it or could not do it.
According to Pelinka herself, he and James reached a consensus on the point of not moving until the trade deadline.
But soon ESPN's Dave came out and punched him in the face, saying that James's sources said that Pelinka was lying, and that James and Thick Brow wanted to make a move, but Pelinka didn't do anything in the end.
Then, in the All-Star stage, James uttered two passages that poked at the media's G-spot: first, the door to his return to the Cavaliers has not been closed; second, the final year of his career will be spent with his son, where Brownie is, he is.
If you are a media person, you should have enough sense of smell for this statement; if you are the management of the Lakers, this statement is enough to make you chrysanthemum and produce some inexplicable emotions; if you are James, you should know what kind of shock will occur after blurting out this statement.
But he still said that people must be trying to express something when they start talking, so the topic was re-taken out: James wants to leave the Lakers and return to the Cavaliers?
I believe James said that he would play with Brownies for a year at the end of his career, whether it was for the reputation of "playing father and son soldiers" or for his son to stand, it is a good story.
But it's too early to talk about it, Brownie has two more years to go into the draft, two years is enough to happen too much, for the NBA, two years is almost like two lives.
On the question of James' return to the Cavaliers, I wrote a special article last Christmas. The conclusion is impossible, and there are three main reasons:
First, returning to the Cavaliers in James' current situation is not necessarily certain to win the championship, as long as they do not win the championship, there is a suspicion of escaping from the battle, because this Lakers team is saved by him. Once he returned to the knight unsuccessfully, it would inevitably damage his historical position.
Second, whatever you do in Los Angeles after retirement is going to do better than in Cleveland.
Third, he still has a family and children, without considering money, would you rather your children grow and develop in Shanghai or return to Tieling? Poor parents in the world, no matter what, is the same.
I still hold this view to this day, knowing that going back to the Cavaliers to take young people to compete for the title and the last year to play with his son for a year, to help him stand on the platform and hold a grand farewell ceremony are two different things.
In fact, the relationship between the players and the team is very similar to the couple, when the wind is downwind, it is okay, but life inevitably has a bad and bumpy time, at this time both sides will have temptations, so that the other side can show their attitude.
In real life, if your object rightfully says to you, "I'm leaving," or moves a box in front of you to pack up her clothes and looks like she's going to run away from home, she often won't actually go.
She's just telling you, I'm upset, you quickly say two nice words to keep me. If you really make up your mind to go, it's all silent.
Do you see what words really came out of harden's mouth before he left?
James is just sending some signals to the Lakers right now, giving them some sense of urgency. This is not fundamentally different from your girlfriend's usual temptations of you, but if you always ignore them, the temptation will become action.
The first opportunity to verify this summer, this year is the penultimate year of James's contract with the Lakers, James can choose to renew his contract with the Lakers early this summer. Whether the Lakers proposed a contract extension explains the team's attitude, and whether to renew the contract or not explains James' attitude.
Speaking of James and the Lakers, their core contradiction is that there is a shift in the judgment of James's ability and value.
The Lakers began the season with an ambitious championship look, but half a season later, their roster tests failed markedly. So the trading deadline in front of the Lakers is two choices, change or unchanged.
What is the premise of change?
It was the Lakers who used the few chips in their hands to give it a go, and after the fight, I believe James still has the possibility of impacting the championship with the latest lineup.
That is to say, the Lakers do not believe that James still has the ability to rush the championship with a new lineup, if they believe it, if they do not believe it, then they must slow down to make plans for the future.
The Lakers' lying flat on the trade deadline says it all.
But James is 37 years old, he doesn't have much of a future, he has to think about the present. He's going to be desperate to storm the championship, and he needs the Lakers to cooperate with him in doing so.
James knows very well that this lineup is not good now, but it may not be impossible to change the lineup.
James, as a generation of male masters, will certainly not think that he can't do it until he completely falls down. Even if it doesn't work, it has to be tried to know, and in his eyes, the Lakers have not been given the opportunity to try.
At this point, the two sides are already in different camps, and their butts are not on the same side.
To get your ass back on the same side, you have to pull both value judgments back to the same level.
Either James will tell the whole league with his performance on the court, I'm okay; or the Lakers management will use the performance on the court to tell James that you really can't do it. But whether it works or not, this season is probably really not working.
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