Lakers reporter both excited and disappointed by reported new LeBron deal

Trevor Lane said the Lakers will struggle to make signings in the offseason due to LeBron James' new contract

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00:00So normally we would be we would be happy in this situation, right?

00:04Normally, this would be a good a good thing for the Lakers. They get some certainty

00:08They know he's gonna be on the roster this season

00:10It is a one plus one so he can opt out after this season. We can be right back in this spot next summer

00:16Which maybe isn't a surprise the Lakers were willing to give him whatever kind of contract he wanted whether that's a three-year deal to your

00:21Deal, whatever

00:22He also got a no trade clause, which is also something that we expected

00:26But the news that came out a few days ago about LeBron bullying being willing to take less than a max salary if the Lakers

00:33could land a

00:34certain certain amount of players with the the money the financial freedom that would have been

00:41Freed up by doing that

00:43By him taking a pay cut that got people excited that hey, okay, they're gonna get clay Thompson

00:48They're gonna get the Marta Rosen

00:50They're gonna get whoever James Harden or Jonas Valanciunas or whoever else was on the bronze list

00:56And the Lakers struck out they weren't able to get any of those guys for the mid-level

01:00Exception that LeBron would have freed up by taking less money. And so he wound up just taking the max

01:04So had we not known about all that?

01:07I think people would feel a little bit better about this

01:09but

01:09given that

01:10It seemed like they missed a golden opportunity

01:13There to add some talent to the roster because they weren't able to find somebody that would have been an impact piece for that mid-level

01:19exception

01:20There's a little bit of disappointment right now