{"id":415625,"date":"2023-01-09T14:46:28","date_gmt":"2023-01-09T14:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/?p=415625"},"modified":"2023-01-09T14:46:28","modified_gmt":"2023-01-09T14:46:28","slug":"lakers-star-lebron-james-hints-at-changing-the-roster-as-lakers-target-500-this-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/lakers-star-lebron-james-hints-at-changing-the-roster-as-lakers-target-500-this-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakers Star LeBron James Hints at Changing the Roster as Lakers Target .500 This Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LeBron James scored 37 points in another spectacular performance as the Los Angeles Lakers defeated the excellent Sacramento Kings last night, keeping up their strong run of success. The Lakers appeared to be on the verge of a season-ending collapse when superstar Anthony Davis went down with an injury. Davis had been performing at MVP-caliber levels and there was no current estimate for when he would return.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bhJIh9WoMvs\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>However, the Lakers&#8217; success has been largely attributed to James&#8217; brilliance, with role players stepping up significantly in recent weeks to support James. LeBron James spoke with The Athletic about the lack of action on the trade front after his performance in the Lakers&#8217; victory against the Sacramento Kings, which extended their winning run to a season-high five games. James made himself extremely plain.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ALSO READ: <a title=\"Former NFL Star and Analyst Michael Strahan Trashes LeBron James-Hater Skip Bayless Over Insensitive Tweet After Damar Hamlin\u2019s Injury\" href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/former-nfl-star-and-analyst-michael-strahan-trashes-lebron-james-hater-skip-bayless-over-insensitive-tweet-after-damar-hamlins-injury\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Former NFL Star and Analyst Michael Strahan Trashes LeBron James-Hater Skip Bayless Over Insensitive Tweet After Damar Hamlin\u2019s Injury<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>LeBron James speaks up on his future<\/h2>\n<p>LeBron James implied that he will leave any trade ideas to the media when he talked to Amick during his postgame press conference that his job is to play the games and let the front office manage roster transfers.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Hey Sam actually my patience isn\u2019t waning. You make it sound like I\u2019m frustrated when I\u2019m really not. I told you over and over, my job is focused on the guys in the locker room, my job isn\u2019t the roster. That\u2019s the reality of that conversation. And I said what I said with the <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NocLse0dVf\">https:\/\/t.co\/NocLse0dVf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; LeBron James (@KingJames) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KingJames\/status\/1612172257564184576?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 8, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Listen, you guys know. It&#8217;s not rocket science. It&#8217;s not rocket science. Y&#8217;all know what the f-k should be happening. I don&#8217;t need to talk,&#8221;<\/em> LeBron James <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nba\/news\/lebron-james-questions-lakers-for-reluctance-to-make-trade-yall-know-what-the-f-should-be-happening\/\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">LeBron James is currently averaging 38 PPG since turning 38 years old.<\/p>\n<p>Unreal\u2026 \ud83d\udc10 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Q6xgZwqgUy\">pic.twitter.com\/Q6xgZwqgUy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Legion Hoops (@LegionHoops) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LegionHoops\/status\/1611963760901775361?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 8, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>LeBron James is alluding to the Lakers sacrificing one or both of their two remaining first-round selections in the future draughts in 2027 and 2029 in order to acquire his services. However, the front staff has been hesitant to part with either asset out of concern that doing so would put an average team&#8217;s future at risk. 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The Lakers appeared to be on the verge of a season-ending collapse when superstar Anthony Davis went down with an injury. Davis had been performing at MVP-caliber [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":398119,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-415625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-los-angeles-lakers","category-nba"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415625","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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}