{"id":23672,"date":"2024-02-03T01:19:27","date_gmt":"2024-02-02T22:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/23672\/lebron-james-wont-ask-for\/"},"modified":"2024-02-03T01:19:28","modified_gmt":"2024-02-02T22:19:28","slug":"lebron-james-wont-ask-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/?p=23672","title":{"rendered":"LeBron James won&#8217;t ask for trade or be traded by Lakers, agent says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LeBron James won&#8217;t ask for trade or be traded by Lakers, agent says\u060c<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"article-meta\">\n<ul class=\"authors\">\n<li class=\"mugshot-shown\">\n<div class=\"author-img\"><\/div>\n<p>Brian Windhorst, ESPN senior writer<span class=\"timestamp \">February 2, 2024, 3:48 p.m.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"author-overlay\">Close<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>ESPN.com NBA writer since 2010<\/li>\n<li>Covered the Cleveland Cavs for seven years<\/li>\n<li>Author of two books<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>LeBron James will stay with the Los Angeles Lakers, agent Rich Paul made it clear to ESPN on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;LeBron will not be traded, and we&#39;re not asking to be traded,&#8221; Paul said in response to growing speculation about James&#39; future ahead of next week&#39;s trade deadline.<\/p>\n<p>James could have contributed to the whirlwind by <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KingJames\/status\/1752594250594652402\">put an hourglass emoji on your X account<\/a> this week after a defeat in Atlanta.  He hasn&#39;t spoken to reporters since to clarify the message, and he missed the Lakers&#39; <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/tag\/win\/\"   title=\"win\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">win<\/a> Thursday in Boston with an ankle injury.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline editorial float-r\" data-behavior=\"article_related\">\n<h2 class=\"editorial-title\">Editor&#39;s Choice<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/LeBron-James-wont-ask-for-trade-or-be-traded-by.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/li>\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/1706912367_199_LeBron-James-wont-ask-for-trade-or-be-traded-by.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>1 Related<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>The Lakers have been active in trade talks over the past month as they look to bolster a 25-25 team and ninth place in the Western Conference.<\/p>\n<p>James has a $51.4 million player option in his contract for next season with the Lakers.  He has until June 29 to exercise the option.  His son Bronny, who plays for USC, is a candidate for the NBA draft, scheduled for June 26-27.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LeBron James won&#8217;t ask for trade or be traded by Lakers, agent says\u060c Brian Windhorst, ESPN senior writerFebruary 2, 2024, 3:48 p.m. Close ESPN.com NBA writer since 2010 Covered the Cleveland Cavs for seven years Author of two books LeBron James will stay with the Los Angeles Lakers, agent Rich Paul made it clear to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23673,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[634,1252,2036,3157,624,2239,1852],"class_list":["post-23672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-sports","tag-agent","tag-james","tag-lakers","tag-lebron","tag-trade","tag-traded","tag-wont"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23674,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23672\/revisions\/23674"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}