{"id":483563,"date":"2024-05-27T05:48:30","date_gmt":"2024-05-27T09:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=483563"},"modified":"2024-05-27T05:38:08","modified_gmt":"2024-05-27T09:38:08","slug":"lebron-james-will-terminate-lakers-contract-agent-reveals","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/lebron-james-will-terminate-lakers-contract-agent-reveals\/","title":{"rendered":"LeBron James will terminate Lakers contract, agent reveals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NBA playoff battle may be intense, but <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/lebron-james\/\">LeBron James<\/a> has managed to dominate the headlines even after the <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/los-angeles-lakers\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/los-angeles-lakers\/\">Los Angeles Lakers<\/a><\/a>&#8216; elimination.<\/p>\n<p>The attention shifted to him following an announcement by his agent, Rich Paul, on TNT. Paul revealed that LeBron will become a free agent, and his next task is to find a new club for the basketball superstar.<\/p>\n<p>LeBron James had signed a two-year contract with the Lakers last summer, which included a clause allowing him to decide whether to complete the second season. If he chooses to stay with the Lakers, he would earn $51.4 million. However, given the Lakers&#8217; disappointing playoff performances in recent years, LeBron is seriously considering seeking a new challenge before ending his illustrious career.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">OFFICIAL: LeBron James will become a FREE AGENT this summer (via Rich Paul) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/czs0Gvc3oz\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/czs0Gvc3oz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Basketball Forever (@bballforever_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bballforever_\/status\/1794551297653498321?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 26, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;LeBron is a free agent. I have work to do to find him a club,&#8221; said Paul about the NBA&#8217;s all-time leading scorer. This news has sparked significant speculation about where &#8220;The King&#8221; might play next and has added an intriguing subplot to the ongoing NBA playoffs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NBA playoff battle may be intense, but LeBron James has managed to dominate the headlines even after the Los Angeles Lakers&#8216; elimination. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":483564,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16972,16970],"news_category":[16706],"gn_keywords":[17644,17645],"acf":{"announce":"Rich Paul announced he is searching for a new team for \"The King\"","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/483563"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483563"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/483563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":483565,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/483563\/revisions\/483565"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483563"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=483563"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=483563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}