Legend: For the first time in his 23-year career, LeBron James has the potential to be abandoned

And this "scumbag" is the Los Angeles Lakers.

Yesterday, ESPN reporters Ramona Shelburne and Brian Windhorst jointly released a joint article, deeply revealing some deep secrets between the Lakers and James after the end of last season.

explains why James chose to execute his last year's $52.62 million contract instead of renewing his signature 1+1 contract with the Lakers.

Core content includes:

① Four days after being eliminated by the Timberwolves this year's playoffs, Lakers General Manager Pelinka, head coach Redick, Doncic and his agent completed a dinner to discuss the issue of contract renewal and the team's future development direction, and James did not attend the team's "summit".

② Before the free agent market opened on July 1 this year, the Lakers did not submit a renewal offer to the James team as in previous years. James's co-agent Ricky Paul, Jr. and Yang Hansen's co-agent, could only choose between the two paths of executing the last year's player option and jumping out of the contract to become a free agent.

③ Before the Lakers exchanged their clubs with a "10 billion subsidy" this year, Doncic was informed in advance, and LeBron not only did not receive any news in advance, but also did not make any statement afterwards. He was really not as good as the attitude of his own star and team leader.

The author of this article, Wenhorst, was the media mouthpiece in the LeBron 1.0 period, and he jumped from an unknown sports journalist to a famous NBA media person.

But he broke up with LeBron during the Heat and lost the most important news resources. In the past few years, the revelations about the Lakers and LeBron were almost all cold-blooded and guessing. But this time his heavyweight revelation completely revealed all the disputes between the Lakers and LeBron under the table this summer.

All signs indicate that LeBron has now encountered an unprecedented cold reception in his career in the Lakers. Not only is he not a part of the team's future, he has no say in his current team building work.

The Lakers management did not break this window paper just out of decency and respect for his many years of league status.

Since entering the league in 2003, LeBron has always firmly controlled his career with his strong strength, unprecedented eternity, and extraordinary operating mind. Not only has his team always been shifting with his will, but as long as there is a possibility of appearing in the player market, most of the league will flock to it.

He and his fans have become accustomed to and enjoyed this feeling of being the only one who is the only one, and take it for granted.

No matter how high and low his career goes, he controls the team and does not accept any interference or control from investors. During the 1.0 period of Cavaliers, the team almost broke the bankruptcy for him and begged him to renew his contract.

During the Heat, even though he was unhappy with the management, Riley was asked to lobby himself with an old wine when he jumped out of the contract in 2014.

Although 2014 and 2018 are already thirty-year-old veterans, half of the league teams can line up to bid to please the dragon's face.

It can be said that LeBron's career is different from any player in history. He enjoys the feeling that the team management bows his head in front of him and tries his best to favor him.

But unfortunately, his opponent this time is the Los Angeles Lakers.

This is the team that has the least shortage of superstars in history. Half of the top ten stars in history come from here. Among the top five players in history, they only lack Michael Jordan.

They are the team that treats superstars the most well-behaved, but they are also the ones who are good at dealing with superstars.

People often give the Magician a 25-year contract with Bass. Bass Jr. still enjoys the highest salary in the league in the last two years, which is used to prove the reason why the funding legion has attracted superstars.

But behind this is that after giving Kobe a high salary, the Bass family no longer invested in any reinforcements, but began to select a bunch of new players and started to level up slowly. Since 2013-16, Black Mamba has not even scored in the playoffs. It is precisely because of these chips that it is the confidence to attract James and Davis to join in the future.

We only see the Lakers' open goodwill towards the super giants, but we don't know how many confrontations and compromises there have been behind them. The premise of

is just a top super giant like LeBron and Kobe, not to mention the next one.

In 2004, Shark openly asked Bass for a contract extension at his personal concert, but was sent to the Heat in the next year in "choose one of two" with Kobe. At that time, O'Pang was only 32 years old. At that time, many people mistakenly thought that Kobe had driven away the shark. Many years later, the parties involved decrypted the secrets themselves and let the truth be revealed to the world.

Bass didn't want to renew his contract with the old (actually not that old) and lazy Shark, and let him leave. Kobe was just the scapegoat to block bullets for his boss.

In the 1998-99 season, in order to give young Kobeten the position, he sent away All-Star guard Eddie Jones, whom he trained, in 12 years, in order to win the league's first center Howard sent away the Western Conference All-Star starting center Bynum, and since 2011, he has been selling two champions Gasol and Odom, and this year, he sent away Thick Brow for Doncic.

Where did the Lakers' 11th championship since 1980 and Jerry West's reputation as "agent GOAT" come from?

has always been smart and ruthless.

We can regard LeBron as Cao Mengde, who "would rather let me down the world than let me down the world", but Zhu Yuanzhang, who killed meritorious officials like killing chickens, was the sake of his descendants for thousands of years and took the heads of his ministers and his descendants for thousands of years..

Especially after the Bass family sold the team for tens of billions, the responsibility and shackles for the future suddenly became extremely relaxed.

The Lakers are no longer their family industry, but belong to the Jewish consortium with a market value of hundreds of billions, and they also hold the rebound of the MLB giants Los Angeles Dodgers Walter.

Compared with the family workshops with more emotional Bass family, the Lakers in the future are more cold-blooded and rich people with Wall Street flavor.

From any perspective, LeBron's seven years with the Lakers deserve respect from every fan.

He and the management have always been in peace and get along well. Even if they introduce a big misunderstanding like Westbrook in 21, they can work together and overcome difficulties.

Although it is still renewed 1+1 every year after 22 years, there has never been any threatening to leave the team. Last year, in order to keep the team under the second luxury tax and to have more flexibility in operation, he took the initiative to cut his salary.

With his business value and rejuvenation contribution to the Lakers (the Lakers have not entered the playoffs for four years before joining in 2018), his net worth of 50 million is even lower.

If it weren't for the current restrictions on labor-management agreements in the league, LeBron would have a good deal even if his annual salary of over 100 million yuan.

But now the league's salary is all within the framework of salary cap and luxury tax, and only considers competitive factors, not commercial value.

The 40-year-old James has been eliminated by the Nuggets and Jokic for two consecutive years, indicating that he is no longer the top combat power of the league.

It is not that as long as you are healthy, you can tie the opponent once you turn into "all-out James" in the playoffs. Now this league only talks about the influence of the game.

Jokic, Antetokounmpo, Alexander, and Tatum are all above him. This has not yet considered his physical condition if he has to return to the blue for a while if he plays with all his strength.

The Lakers are not the Cavaliers who have never won the championship in history. They know too much about what the background of a real superstar is.

The older superstars are not a big deal here, and they must be kept until they retire.

For James fans, this is undoubtedly a harm that has never been seen in more than 20 years. They never thought that one day, LeBron would become a decay from the "little sweet" that everyone competes for, and the "Madam Niu" who needs to look at others' faces.

For young Lakers fans, they are also unfamiliar with this cold-blooded and even a bit merciless Lakers. It was a foregone conclusion that LeBron had a retirement ceremony side by side with Kobe. Unexpectedly, the Lakers' repentance this time, for example, our big girl breaks the engagement and needs to be clean and neat.

But for old Lakers fans who have experienced the cleansing of sharks, Gasol was angry, and even legendary celebrities such as West, Riley, and Zen Master were cleaned up, it is no longer surprising.

If you are not cruel and can't stand firm, otherwise how do you think the 17 champions come from?