LeBron has a player option… THAT’S ALL I’M SAYING! – Brian Windhorst James’ future w/ the Lakers 👀

LeBron has a player option… THAT’S ALL I’M SAYING! – Brian Windhorst James’ future w/ the Lakers 👀

Exactly one week away from the trade deadline and around the Los Angeles Lakers Brian it feels like there is no calvalry that is coming if the Lakers don’t make any significant improvements any significant moves between now and the deadline and don’t meet like the postseason standards right that LeBron

Has LED and has held his teams to what do you think that means for james’ future here in Los Angeles well I’m just going to make a couple of statements of fact I’m just going to make a fact and I’m not implying anything I’m not implying I

Have any knowledge I’m just going to make statements of facts so don’t run with them okay LeBron has been a Laker for six years he has signed three contracts those are facts LeBron has never before been in position with the Lakers to be a free agent at the end of

The season he has an option in his contract for this next season that’s a fact I also don’t believe that he would walk away from La nor do I think he wants to walk away from $50 million but he does have an option in his contract

That’s all I’ll say facts LeBron he goes from playing at TD Garden to Madison Square Garden or rather being out in TD Garden to hopefully playing in Madison Square Garden for our Saturday Prime Time match up on ABC in the ESPN app the Lakers they’re in New York next to take

On Jaylen Brunson and the Knicks our coverage begins with NBA Countdown at 8 Eastern some breaking news here on MBA today staying in New York the Knicks have announced that Julius Randall his dislocated right shoulder will be re-evaluated two to three weeks our Adrien Wen rasy reported that there was

Hope that Randall could avoid a surgical procedure and return in a matter of weeks not months so that is some good news for Julius Randall in the Knicks perk you have been claiming New York as your team what’s your level of optimism here for the next well New York has been

Claiming me I mean that’s me but look look this is great news because he don’t have to have surgery right you think you fact in the allstar break Julius Rand will be back jayen Bronson Josh hard you know the crew they going to hold it down there’s still some really interesting

Decisions to make around the All-Star Reserve spot the official rosters are going to be released a little bit later today first let’s just take a quick look a reminder of who the starters are in the Eastern Conference in the Western Conference here in the East you have Halbert and Lillard Tatum Giannis and

Joel embiid joic Durant LeBron Shay and Luca round out the West so we got seven more spots in each conference to fill out J do you want to take the east in this I can do the east beast of the East all right let’s get to it this this is

My allar reserves I’m so happy to have a selection here so I’m going to start with the front Court we’re going to go with bam at of Bio who’s been averaging 20 and 10 doing well for the heat then we’re going to move to you know what

This might surprise people as a lock for me I’m going to go with Paulo benero who’s done so well 237 and five for the magic bringing them back to relevance we’ve got Julius Randall rounding out my front Court as expected thank you sir and now let’s head to the guards these

Two were quite easy for me Jaylen Brunson he was a starter for me in the ballot that I actually sent out to the league and then secondly I’m going to go with Donovan Mitchell who was a hard you know deviation between the two because they’ve been putting up really great

Numbers as of late now that leaves for two wild cards and I’m going to go for wild card Jaylen Brown of course the the best team over the the course of the NBA and then lastly I’m going to go with where he at there he go in perk’s voice

Tyrese Maxi so this is my Allstar East Reserve all right Brian wior do you like the list yeah the only one I would have different I would put Jared Allen on that list and I know that Jared Allen probably won’t make it but he has been

An All-Star for the last 20 25 games and got the Cavs where they want um look if Julius Randle makes it CH he’s not going to be able to play in the game Jared Allen can replace him and everybody can be happy yeah everybody wins I like that what about the West

Kendrick okay hello embrace all this embrace all this let’s get to it there there we go CH there we go in my front Court I have sabonis I have kawh Leonard here we go right here kawh Leonard Leonard Jordan he’s averaging around 24 points a game

Right now the hottest team in the league I actually voted him as a starter I got sabonis also in my front Court averaging 1913 and8 how can you not put him in there next up I got car anony towns right one of the best records in the

League with the duo of Anthony Edwards they’ve been doing this thing he’s averaging around 22 and9 and my guards now this way get tricky I have Anthony Edwards 255 and five is what he’s averaging right now and he has been on a tear lately the kid is just flat out

Special deserving to be in allstar game next dear Fox right averaging about 27 game right now we know what def Fox do we know what he been doing for that franchise and in my wild card I have Devin Booker okay he’s averaging 28 a game and my last wild card is Paul

George now I know some may get in their feelings I know some may get in their feelings and say where’s Steph Curry Davis where Steph Curry where’s ad I’mma tell you where they at not on my list of all star reserves are they on yours

Brian and here I want I want to know if they’re on Brian oh go ahead yeah and then we can hear why this I mean in all honesty perk it’s kind of not even fair to Steph to have him as a wild card he should be one of the Bonafide guards but

Okay if you want to make him a wild card but with all due respect it’s indefensible not to have him on the team um and also I I know you’re putting dearon Fox on over him and he’s had a good year but two kings on a I mean if

You’re going to going to penalize the Warriors for underachieving it’s not like the kings are tearing up the league so two kings and no step that’s a hard sell man well Wendy I love you so much but look I actually put myself into the coaches position because they’re the

Ones who vote for the reserves and when I know when coaches vote they actually look not only at a player of production but what their team is doing that’s why I don’t have Steph or Anthony Davis in there both of those guys are below 500 the Warriors are four games below 500 in

The 12th spot in the Western Conference I just couldn’t I can’t get on the same page as you are Curry come on now he’s still doing what he does we’re going to find out the answers officially in a matter of Hours

Brian Windhorst, Kendrick Perkins, Chiney Ogwumike and Malika Andrews discuss the Los Angeles Lakers’ headed into the NBA Trade Deadline and then speculate who they think will be picked to be the all-star reserves.

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