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418 million in 5 years, the Lakers are Doncic s team, Edwards is arrogant, James should be respected

5:42pm, 9 May 2025Basketball

TA reporters Jovan Buha and Sam Amick jointly wrote a special article about the Guan Lakers, mentioning Doncic's future. Doncic will renew his contract with the Lakers for 4 years and $229 million this summer. You can also sign a 3-year, $165 million super contract with the Lakers in 2028. Sources revealed that the Lakers will meet any requirements for Doncic in contract structure. It can be seen that the Lakers are Doncic's team now, but the combination of Doncic and James really can't go far. We still need to build a team around Doncic, trade reliable inside players and defend the number one or two positions. To determine Doncic's absolute core position, Reeves should really trade, or lower the substitute and try again for another year.

In fact, the Mavericks knew Doncic very well and found Owen for him. I didn't know him before, and I've seen it for half a season and I know him a little. He is different from other superstars. He holds the ball and has a large core, and he has full firepower at the beginning, so Irving is very suitable for him to attack in the fourth quarter. However, the Lakers have also lacked the fourth quarter's tough guys in recent years. If Reeves is not a seller, he must let him substitute Doncic. Doncic also needs to change his playing style, try to play with his teammates in the first half, and collect the game himself in the last quarter.

As for James, it depends on what the management thinks. Sources revealed that James would not consider the level of salary cuts in the same period last year. In the last game of the Timberwolves eliminating the Lakers, Edwards was very arrogant, making a gesture of salute to Lakers fans, and even squirting trash words at James. James is 40 years old and Edwards is only 23 years old. Which is better, 23-year-old James or 23-year-old Edwards? Of course it's James. James should be respected because changing teams means taking shortcuts to succeed, just like running 100 meters and running 20 meters first.

Especially when the team is in trouble, I don’t think about how to change the team through hard work, but take a shortcut to change the team. Anyone who came back after the team got better and said that in order to bring the team a championship, why didn’t he win the championship with the team at the beginning? If the Cavaliers hadn't had Irving, would James return to Cleveland? Curry's contract expired in 21 years. What was the Warriors' state at that time? Thompson's serious injury has not healed. A group of rookies have not yet been able to play. How did Curry do it? He led the team to win the 22-year championship directly.

Although 23-year-old Edwards is very arrogant, don't forget that Edwards' desperate expression when he was more than 20 points behind in the Olympic semi-finals against Slovenia, and finally those old guys recovered one by one and overtook it. At that time, Edwards had no power to fight back, and was purely like a naughty child looking desperately under the butcher knife. In terms of personal ability, it’s not the level of Zhan Duku. Just be modest. I won the championship and other honors first.

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