It is difficult to understand the Los Angeles Lakers and LeBron James period.
In 2016, James decided to leave Cleveland for Los Angeles after four straight trips to the NBA finals, including Cavaliers. His time in Cleveland was very tiring, because he had a tremendous pressure to win a championship in his hometown of his hero and to fulfill the promise of the city’s 50 plus annual drought.
After James came to Los Angeles, the Lakers exchanged the entire young nucleus for almost all a young star Anthony Davis. When I look back, this trade is still logical. On the surface, it seemed like a premium draft selection package, and there was a great return for New Orleans Pelicans, who gave up a great man who was prone to injury, such as Lonzo Ball and Brandon Ingram.
However, Ball and Ingram became the franchise -changing players expected to be. The pelicans have never done much with these draft elections. And David Griffin, who applied the movement for New Orleans, was just fired. This tells you everything you need to know.
On the other hand, Davis helped James to give Los Angeles a title during the Covid-19 Pandemi during the NBA balloon. As we all know, Davis turned this season to Luka Doncic, a trade that is believed to have established Lakers for the future this season.
The NBA Bubble Championship was the fourth title of James and the third different organization in which he won a ring. You may argue that the bubble championship is one of the most difficult to win in the history of professional sports, because the teams had to take important time from the court, to test Covid-19 daily in Florida and to be quarantined in hotels separated from their families. What a strange time.
However, although this is not for the 2020 NBA Championship, it will be difficult to consider overwhelming and comprehension when James spent with Lakers.
In the first season with Lakers, they completely missed the playoffs – a stunner after taking Cavaliers to the finals four straight trip. In 2021, Lakers lost to Phoenix Suns in the first round, but the Suns continued to win the Western Conference.
In 2022, he missed the Lakers Playoffs again. They were swept in the Western Conference Finals by Denver Nuggets, who will continue to win the NBA championship in 2023.
However, he questioned the legacy of James in Los Angeles of his first round outlets. In 2024, the Lakers were not factor in playoffs. It was so bad that Darvin Ham was immediately fired and replaced with JJ Redick, who was replaced by a similar fate in the first round.
2025 Lakeer gathered within 11 hours. Mavericks General Manager Nico Harrison still seems stupid to trade Luka Doncic-perhaps a little less, but Doncic’s defense flaws appeared in the first round loss to Minnesota Timberwolves.
James after another first round He did not go into details about his future. Will be expected.
The 40 -year -old child signed with Lakers last summer has a player option. He can reject him and discover the unlimited free agency, or decide to last only his last years in Los Angeles.
It will be a fascinating decision. James still puts legitimate superstar numbers, but did not affect winning as in Cleveland in Los Angeles. Already “Meh” free agency class It was ruled by James Harden and Kyrie Irving, which will be released from a major injury.
Lebron’s impact on Los Angeles was difficult to measure – thank God for this 2020 NBA championship.
