{"id":403157,"date":"2022-08-17T15:22:05","date_gmt":"2022-08-17T15:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/report-lebron-james-reaches-2-year-97-1m-deal-with-lakers\/"},"modified":"2022-08-17T15:22:05","modified_gmt":"2022-08-17T15:22:05","slug":"report-lebron-james-reaches-2-year-97-1m-deal-with-lakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/report-lebron-james-reaches-2-year-97-1m-deal-with-lakers\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: LeBron James reaches 2-year, $97.1M deal with Lakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Los Angeles Lakers superstar LeBron James agreed to a two-year, $97.1 million contract extension that includes a player option for the 2024-25 season, ESPN reported on Wednesday. <\/h1>\n<h2>Per the network, James&#8217; extension &#8212; which includes a 15 percent trade kicker &#8212; makes him the highest-earning player in NBA history with $532 million in guaranteed money. <\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p>James, who turns 38 on Dec. 30, had been set to make $44.5 million entering the final season of his previous contract.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>James, obviously, had plenty of money prior to this contract. Forbes estimated his net worth at $1 billion in June, making him the first active NBA player to reach the status. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>James has won four NBA championships, been named league MVP four times and been selected to 18 All-Star teams. He also has won two Olympic gold medals.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>He averaged 30.3 points, 8.2 rebounds and 6.2 assists in 56 games last season.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Field Level Media<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles Lakers superstar LeBron James agreed to a two-year, $97.1 million contract extension that includes a player option for the 2024-25 season, ESPN reported on Wednesday. Per the network, James&#8217; extension &#8212; which includes a 15 percent trade kicker &#8212; makes him the highest-earning player in NBA history with $532 million in guaranteed money. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-403157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-los-angeles-lakers","category-nba"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}