James will join the Mavericks after being bought out, Lakers and Doncic force James to leave the team

After the offseason started, James' team originally wanted to reach a new contract extension with the Lakers, but so far, the Lakers have not mentioned this at all. James had to execute a contract of $52.6 million in the last year, but the Lakers said that all their signing work in the offseason would be centered around Luka Doncic rather than James.

, and many opinions from James' team were also rejected. At this time, Ritchie and Paul also stood up to criticize the Lakers' management many times. This approach is simply to destroy the bridge. In the end, the Lakers and Luka Doncic were exposed and forced James to leave the Lakers. There is news that the Lakers are waiting for James to apply for a trade. If he cannot trade him, he will be bought out directly and make him a free agent. Subsequently, the Mavericks' team reporter revealed that once James is bought out, the Mavericks will reach a new contract with him, allowing him to continue to work with two good brothers, Irving and Anthony Davis.

At this time, many people said that the Lakers no longer need James after they have Luka Doncic, after all, James is already 40 years old. Subsequently, the Lakers' team reporter said that the team's management hopes that James will retire after playing this season, which means they hope that James will hold a retirement tour this season. But it was rejected by James himself.

From this we can see that the Lakers want to squeeze James' last bit of value. If it is really worthless, they will buy it out directly and let it leave the Lakers. After all, James now has a maximum salary contract of more than 50 million US dollars. It already accounts for a large part of the salary space.