Why would you rather break up the championship team than provide him with a contract?

Who would have thought that LeBron, who had "decided" to stir up the alliance structure in the past twenty years, would now stand at the crossroads of passive acceptance of fate. The news thrown by Lakers' team reporter Dan Woike on the podcast is like a thunderbolt: the Purple and Gold Army has clearly refused to take over any contracts that exceed the 2025-26 season in all transaction negotiations involving James. This means that even in the trade, the Lakers want to completely cut off their future connection with the team's scoring champion.

This attitude caused an uproar in the fan forum. Some netizens bluntly said: "From the Lakers need James to the James drag down the Lakers," but in just two years, the reality of competitive sports is more cruel than the Hollywood script. "Someone even found out that at the 2020 championship celebration, Lakers boss Jenny Bass said, "LeBron is the best signing in the team history" now seems full of irony.

Ritchie Paul's two responses are PR textbooks. The first time I denied the transaction application through ESPN, the embarrassment between the lines is "the more I draw it, the darker it becomes." The second time I simply turned into a life mentor, and the sentence "Enjoy the summer well" tried to calm the storm, but was interpreted by fans as "the helplessness of refuting". After all, when league executives bluntly say in front of the Forbes Sports camera that "LeBron's whereabouts will cover the entire offseason," any silence seems to be a default.

In the current rumored territory, the Clippers and the Heat are eyeing the chips of the "50 million expiration contract", but they are still holding on; only the Warriors, like a persistent suitor, have expressed their interest in the mid-season in the past season to the official inquiry this offseason, which made fans jokingly say that "Curry's love for James is more hot than the sunshine in the Bay Area."

But the complexity of this potential transaction is far beyond imagination. If the Warriors want to get 39-year-old James, they will have to break up the existing core framework of "Spray Tea". This is like a big bet for them who have just been eliminated in the first round of the playoffs. An anonymous Western executive commented: "The Warriors' interest is more like a strategic temptation. They know that James can bring box office and topics, but if he really wants to coexist with Curry, the reconstruction of the tactical system is as difficult as rebuilding the Golden Gate Bridge. "

And the contradictions within the Lakers are even more acute. Forbes reporter Evan Sidery revealed that if the team cannot introduce top ball holders like Lillard in the summer window, James is likely to take extreme measures to force the palace before training camp. This "ultimatum"-style game reminds people of his words in 2010, "I want to bring my talent to the South Coast." But this time, he is no longer the 25-year-old peak king who controls everything.

When everyone is speculating on James' next home, 19-year-old Brownie is standing at the beginning of her career, facing a cruel additional question. If his father leaves the Lakers, will this rookie who just showed defensive vitality in Summer United be left to be a symbolic figure in the "post-James era"?

Netizen "Bathball Believers " comments came to the nail on the head: "Brownny's situation is very similar to Rivers Jr., whose father's halo is both a protective cover and a magnifying glass. Staying in the Lakers, he may get more exposure, but he will be compared with his father by fans; if he leaves, although he can get rid of the shadows, he has to prove from scratch that he does not rely on his surname to gain power. "

In fact, the Lakers' positioning of Brownie has always been vague. In the summer league, he averaged only 4.8 points and 2.3 rebounds per game, with a shooting percentage of less than 40%, which obviously has not reached the NBA rotation level. If James leaves the team, will the Purple and Gold Legion still be willing to invest in training resources for this "family contract"? This may be a big question mark.

From the teenager of Akron to the King of Los Angeles, James has always moved forward in breaking the rules and enduring controversy. Today's game about the future is not so much a "betrayal" by the Lakers, but rather a must-answer question given to all legends by time - when the peak is gone, how can you fight for the final dignity for yourself in the rules of the business alliance?