At the end of the NBA regular season, it was reported that the Warriors' Klay Thompson was leaving the team due to contract reasons, and the next stop could be the Los Angeles Lakers or the New York Knicks and Orlando Magic. After the recent news that 39-year-old veteran Chris Paul may join the Lakers with a base salary, Klay Thompson, another big man on the Warriors, is also interested in joining the Lakers.
If Klay Thompson really joins the Lakers as he wishes and returns to his hometown team to play, then next season the Lakers will form a Big Four lineup dominated by James, Davis, Thompson and Paul. For this reason, James will also jump out of the contract in his career, give up his salary of $54.1 million next season, and re-sign a new contract with the Lakers, according to the well-known NBA reporter Shame, James may make big concessions because of this, and even take the initiative to reduce his salary by up to $16 million.
It is reported that Klay Thompson left the Warriors because of salary problems, and he wanted to get the last big contract of his career like Curry and Green, but the luxury tax on the Warriors' side exploded and could not provide him with a big contract. Moreover, when he was reimbursed for the season with a torn cruciate ligament injury in his knee a few years ago, the Warriors still provided him with a large contract with a maximum salary, so that he could recuperate from the injury without worries, which was indeed enough for him to respect, and now that he is getting older and declining, the impact of the injury is indeed no longer worth a top salary, and the influence is not as good as Curry, so the middle-class contract that the Warriors offered him is also reasonable. But Klay Thompson is reluctant to compromise and wants to test the free market and leave the Warriors in search of a big contract.
According to the report, the Lakers are willing to offer James any contract he wants, including giving him trade veto power, and according to NBA salary rules, if James chooses to jump out of the contract, the Lakers can offer him a maximum of a three-year, $162 million contract, with the new contract averaging an annual salary of up to $54 million. James will be 42 years old by the third year of his contract, and because the NBA's contract amount is incremental, it is hard to imagine that a 42-year-old veteran can get a contract with an annual salary of nearly $60 million and still play as the team's starting team, which is unique in NBA history.
A few days ago, the NBA draft meeting of the Lakers selected James' eldest son Bronny with the 55th pick in the second round, the reason why he won Bronny is more commercial than practical, in fact, Bronny's strength is far from reaching the NBA level, and some scouts report that he may not be as good as the CBA Guangzhou team's undrafted Cui Yongxi. Of course, the NBA is a business league, attracting traffic and making money is the most important thing, the first picture in NBA history of father and son on the same stage and competing on the same court will be staged on the Lakers, such top IP and topics are definitely one of the topics that fans are most concerned about in the new season.
One is an all-time NBA superstar, the other is a stinky kid, and it doesn't matter if Bronny can adapt to the rhythm of the NBA or how high James can take him, because he has already managed to enter the league.
Of course, if James still has the ambition to take a pay cut and let the team sign famous players like Paul, Klay, and even Harden, and there will also be other veterans to shoot, it is not impossible for them to win the championship again next season. Leading his rookie son to win the championship at the end of his career will be another NBA-level topic in history, and the amount of topic traffic and attention generated at that time is unimaginable.