What about James's $154 million deal with the lakers over four years

Lebron James, 33 and a half, is going to the Los Angeles lakers, 54 million in four years.
The lakers' tradition is to have legendary guards and buy super centers.
West, magic, kobe, they raised him after the draft.
Pick up McCann from Chicago, get chamberlain from Philadelphia, get skyhook from Milwaukee and sign sharks from Orlando.

Another lakers tradition, as you can see:
West, magic and Bryant are all among the top five defenders in history.
McCann, chamberlain, skyhook and shaq, the greatest centers of all time, except Russell and big dreams, are here.

The celtics have more championships, but when it comes to wrist positions, they're not as good as the lakers.
The lakers have always been the biggest spender, the biggest player.

Lebron now has four regular-season MVP. Exactly half a century ago, chamberlain went to the lakers with four regular-season MVPS, joining west and baylor as the three biggest names in history.
When skyhook arrived with the lakers in 1975, he played for six years in the NBA, three regular-season MVP.
Of course, even with the lakers' many legends, no one came close to beating lebron in 2018.

Los Angeles has everything a superstar needs: the long history of the lakers, the legacy of big cities, the California coast, and the Hollywood media that made shaq so happy two decades ago. There is nothing like it except New York.
They're perfect for each other.
It's a good choice for lebron himself.

Dan gilbert wrote to thank lebron. Though they were never able to cope, this time was different from eight years ago, and the guests enjoyed themselves. Gilbert specifically mentioned June 19, 2016, when lebron took the cavaliers to the title.
That's it.

At this time eight years ago, in addition to going to the south coast, lebron faced other options:
Go to Chicago and partner with rose and Noah, who were not yet famous, and pick up the young bulls: it was about choosing honor.
Go to New York and become a world-famous legend: it's about choosing to succeed.
Stay in Cleveland: that's choosing loyalty.
Now he's going to Los Angeles, sort of like in 2010 he chose Chicago + New York:
Reconstruction with young people has become a worldwide legend.
I met lebron once in Beijing 798 in 2009. At that time, a big brother of a sports brand asked me in east coast English with doubts:
"Why is lebron so great and not as good in Asia as, say, kobe, AI and t-mac?
We break off for a while, chat style (" McGrady and kobe Bryant, AI style is more fair, more suitable for Asia "), chatted inheritance (three of them, after all, "Bryant older"), about the sense of belonging (" natural with the lakers and rockets in mainland China market "), finally the eldest brother a clap a thigh:
"He should go to the big city!

At the end of March 2018, a former NBA veteran in China told me occasionally, "lebron is still not as good as kobe." "I'm not talking from a sporting point of view. After yao Ming and kobe Bryant, we've been looking for a star like that.
Finally he shook his head. "leblanc will be in the big city!"

Shaq starred in video games and shot Pepsi ads before going to the lakers in 1996. Since 1996, music, performing arts and television have taken off and become one of the most famous people in the world. Big city bonuses, that's scary.

In 1991, magic was the second most popular player in the world, after Jordan. Off-court income is six times the stadium salary. He has a business mind, knows how to promote his image, and has won the rights of Pepsi in several areas of the United States early. He wanted to have an NBA team, and of course, as we all know, he retired at 31 with an unfulfilled ambition because of HIV.
When Jordan becomes charlotte's boss, does the magician feel, "should I have bought a team first?"
Now, the magician will meet lebron. What will two geniuses with a business empire do in Los Angeles in the age of social media?
The lakers want to be the reigning capital of the sports industry again. They fit well together.

For the east, it's good, it's bad. The good thing is, lebron James left the iron throne, Boston and Philadelphia's young people to compete for: similar to the east of a power vacuum, or to Jordan retired twice, some is Russell stepped down in 1969.
The bad news is that the west and east, which had a tendency to draw closer, seem to be pulling back.
The truth is: over the past 17 years, all the MVP awards, except lebron and Ross, have come from the west. And now, all the former MVPS who are still playing -- lebron, curry, durant, Williams, harden, dirk, Ross -- are all in the west.

Finally, on the court.
Yes, for this level of lebron's superstar, outside the stadium factors - dimension in Los Angeles, brilliant in big cities, historical heritage, the empire together, the balance of power in both east and west - a bit heavier.
And the average player signs a team, involve team strength and salary balance problem at most, still cannot talk about so big pattern.

The lakers have young players: Jason kidd, who has a poor shooting attitude. Ingram was more reliable than George in the latter half of last season when he played point guard. The kuzma image (jamieson + van horn) /2, and is well suited to this small ball age; Randall's fine. He's short of height.

Over the past two years, coach Luke Walton has given the lakers a good system. Their defense is, if only one keeps the Ingram lacks a little power but the arm length and mobile enough, Randall lack some height but diligence is good also, when the ball's defense is underestimated: he is the best in the young defender on the ball one of defenders.
On the offensive end, the lakers have a good habit of passing and running, but without a superstar, they're not efficient.
For lebron, a group of defensive youngsters let him play, and the results weren't bad: a goal defense, Ingram's move, kuzma and KCP's long shots.
But that's not all.

As we all know, once lebron became a free man, he was like an exile, he could take one vote with him.
The James Jones followed him wherever he went. He can easily arm a team with half a rotation. James Jones and the corvalls, for example, probably followed.
But that's not all.

Big free agent of 2019: Leonard has said he thinks of the lakers. Other top free agents include durant, Owen, clay, butler, horford, kenba and loew.
The big free agents of 2020: Davis, green, hayward, drazen.

That may help explain why lebron, who signed once a year, signed four years ago.
Show Los Angeles the sincerity, both to the lakers and to other business partners: "I'm here to stay! At least four years! You can trust to invest for me!"
"-- send a signal to all players," I'm here to stay! At least four years! You can come in peace!
Los Angeles is a big city. A beautiful view from the west coast. Lebron's four-year contract.
Guess how many players will flock to it?

Not even until 2019. In the summer of 2018, the lakers will have time to recover. Lebron + Leonard + young talent, healthy, is a 55-win team.

Mentioned: at the beginning, for example, the Los Angeles lakers, the tradition of the legendary defender, buy super center - at the moment, they had room to talk to the pelican the possibility of a super center operation: well, I said that, the dmanisi Cousins.

33 to a rebuilding team, in a normal player is a little old, but given that he is a handful in league history, can alone will team quickly from the ruins on the existence of the peak, and he to 33 years old is still in violation of the laws of nature to his face, so who knows? When he returned to Cleveland in 2014, the cavs were no better off than the lakers are now. As for Cleveland's appeal to free agents, it's not in the same league as Los Angeles.
Lebron James has always been a very sensible man. His decisions, whether on or off the field, when it comes to trade-offs, turned out to be deliberate.
One last thing.
Lebron - that is, the famous agent richie Paul to Tristan and JR Smith signed a super big contract with the agent - 2002 when lebron is a throwback jerseys are flipping the elder brothers. Lebron was under 18 and Paul was 21.
His first gift to lebron was two jerseys:
A Joe namath Los Angeles RAMS jersey and a magician's Los Angeles lakers jersey.
There are many things you can't tell whether you had expected them, or whether they were meant to be