On April 12, Beijing time, the NBA's 2021-22 season of regular season officially ended, the Lakers held a season summary meeting, James was the first to be interviewed, during which James said that he would not play a meaningless game for the scoring king, and wanted to win another championship for the Lakers; during the period, James also revealed that this summer plans to develop new skills to create foul penalty scoring.
Asked which aspect of his game he wants to improve in training this offseason, James said: "I want to stand at the free throw line. So I wanted to figure out how to fool the referee. I want to clarify this. I need to fix it; I've seen too much statistics on penalty area scoring, I'm ranking first in the league in terms of goals per game in a reasonable collision zone, but my average of free throws per game is at the end of the league, and I'll solve that problem.
James also stressed: Listen, I'll fix it. I used to be at the top of the league in terms of free throws, and I used to be at the top. Before I went to Miami, I was at the top of the league in terms of free throws per game; but after I went there, they did that.
James has averaged 30.3 points per game this season, ranking second in the league, averaging only 6 free throws per game, while this year's scorer Wang Embiid averaged 11.8 free throws per game, Alphabet Brother averaged 11.4 times per game, Ha appeared on the field averaged 8.2 points, etc.; Indeed, in the game, James is often violated by opponents but does not want to whistle, and now James openly expresses his dissatisfaction with the referee blowing penalties, and plans to learn to "deceive the referee" this summer to stand on the free throw line.
James wants to win another championship for the Lakers, his contract is still one year left, this summer he is eligible to renew the new contract with the Lakers for 2 years 97.1 million US dollars in advance; talking about the future of James and the Lakers, Pelinka said: Every sign I see now shows that the Lakers will be James's long-term home; Pelinka also took the initiative to take responsibility for the failure of the season and hope to play a championship-level game next season.