Can you still go back to the Knight? Love open recruitment James returns! James continues to play father-son basketball?

After losing 110-121 to the Suns in this game, the Lakers have officially decided that they will miss the playoffs this season, and fans' expectations that they will become the favorites to win the championship this season have been dashed before the start of the season. Whether it's because of the poor functioning of the team's management or the injury of the team's main players, their failures have become a fact that cannot be changed. At present, many media have begun to speculate about what the future of the Lakers will be, and the discussion about whether James will leave the team in the offseason is very hot.

As for James's next team, the most speculated is undoubtedly his old club, the Cavaliers, and many Cavaliers players have thrown olive branches to James. James' former teammate, Love, who was once one of the Cavaliers' Big Three, reportedly said in an interview: "If he comes back, it's like the ending in the story, and I don't want to relate to the future for him, like what he wants to do, what he doesn't want to do." But look at our team, we're going to win for a long time, and Cleveland, Akron and all the Ohio people love him. As can be seen from Love's words, the current Cavaliers are very much hoping that James can return.

In fact, the topic of whether James can return to the Cavaliers has been stirring up as early as the middle of the season. The reason for this comes from the fact that during the All-Star Game, when James was asked in an interview whether he would return to the Cavaliers in the future to start the third stage of his career, James had said that the door to that matter was not closed, which means that he still has a high probability of returning to the Cavaliers in the future. If James's remarks at that time were still a warning to the Lakers management, then after the Lakers officially missed the playoffs, James' remarks are likely to become a reality.

After all, this season, James has been very unhappy with the Lakers. On the one hand, James, who is 37 years old this season, has given everything he needs, so far, James has played 56 games for the Lakers this season, averaging 37.2 minutes per game in recent seasons, averaging 30.3 points, 8.2 rebounds and 6.2 assists per game, shooting 52.4% from the field, shooting 35.9% from three-point range, and many statistics have set new highs in recent seasons. Even with an ankle injury, James still tried his best to bring the team to victory.

However, due to the poor performance of other players on the team, James is really powerless to return to heaven, and finally the Lakers have completely missed the playoffs after the current 7 consecutive losses, which will undoubtedly make James feel very disappointed. On the other hand, the poor attitude of the Lakers management also made James very dissatisfied, and a large part of the reason why the Lakers could not achieve good results this season was due to the inaction of the team management. With the team's record in the first half of the season not ideal, James hoped that the team management would be able to trade reinforcements at the trade deadline, but the management not only did not make any move in the end, but did not have any communication with James Davis before the trade deadline came, which reportedly made James very angry.

For all these reasons, James has not only been unhappy with the Lakers this season, but more importantly, he has been disappointed and dissatisfied with the team, which is not a good signal for the Lakers. On the other hand, James' old club, the Cavaliers, can be described as playing well this season. In the offseason, the Cavaliers selected Mobley with a probing sign, who has averaged 14.9 points and 8.3 rebounds per game this season and is now a hot candidate for the best rookie. In addition, trading rubio and Markkanen is a very important operation.

At the beginning of the season, although the Cavaliers were generally not optimistic about the Cavaliers' large lineup of Aaron, Markkanen and Lefour, the lineup played a dazzling performance under the tandem of Rubio, who had rejuvenated the second spring of his career, and even though the team's main defender Sexton was reimbursed early in the season, they still ranked in the top five in the East. But the good times were short-lived, and Rubio, who brought them a qualitative change, also suffered a season reimbursement injury, and the team had to trade Rondo to alleviate the crisis of the team's understaffer.

Before the trade deadline, the Cavaliers got LeVert from the Pacers in a robbery trade with Rubio as their main chip, and they still ranked in the top six in the East under all-Star players Garland and Allen. However, injuries have once again brought trouble to the Cavaliers, who have lost their most important interior core with Allen's injury and have now fallen to seventh place in the East, and with little left in the regular season, they already have to face the challenge of the playoffs. Still, this season's Cavaliers have given fans renewed hope, after all, in previous seasons, they were the fish-belly teams that struggled to make it to the playoffs after James left.

On the basis of the current Cavaliers lineup, if they can get James' return in the future, although James will be in the final years of his career by then, their strength can still be greatly improved. Judging from the current trend, if the Cavaliers want to get James back, their most attractive chip is not the size of the contract, after all, James has also made it clear that salary is not the most important factor, but he very much wants to compete with his son Brownie. That said, the biggest chip in the league to compete for James at the moment has become who can select Brownie in the next draft.

As Love put it: "It would be great if the Brownies could also come, and we look forward to the day." "Leaving aside brownies' strength, James' and son's competition on the same stage is something that all fans are looking forward to, after all, this will be the first time in NBA history that father and son will be in the same game." For James himself, after he has now had the honors he can get, the choice of the third stage of his career, the championship is no longer his primary consideration, which team can get brownies, it will become the most powerful team to compete with James.