{"id":394636,"date":"2024-06-29T19:26:58","date_gmt":"2024-06-29T17:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=394636"},"modified":"2024-06-29T19:26:58","modified_gmt":"2024-06-29T17:26:58","slug":"lebron-james-reportedly-willing-to-take-a-pay-cut-to-help-lakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/lebron-james-reportedly-willing-to-take-a-pay-cut-to-help-lakers\/","title":{"rendered":"LeBron James reportedly willing to take a pay cut to help Lakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LeBron James has decided not to exercise the player option for 2024-25 included in his contract with the Los Angeles Lakers.<\/p>\n<p>According to Chris Haynes The Chosen One is considering taking a pay cut to help the team get the full midlevel exception.<\/p>\n<p>LeBron James is now eligible to sign a three-year $162M deal with the No Trade clause.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">With LeBron James opting out to re-sign with the Los Angeles Lakers, the superstar is considering opening up a pathway for the team to obtain the full midlevel exception for the right targets, league sources tell <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBAonTNT?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NBAonTNT<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BleacherReport?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@BleacherReport<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rzew2q2V9Q\">pic.twitter.com\/rzew2q2V9Q<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Chris Haynes (@ChrisBHaynes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChrisBHaynes\/status\/1807092607031357933?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 29, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Los Angeles Lakers would have a little over $30 million left to spend below the $178.7 million first apron if they use the $12.9 million mid-level exception with the current roster build.<\/p>\n<p>They could create more space through trades to re-sign LeBron James to more than that. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GXkkGwbutP\">https:\/\/t.co\/GXkkGwbutP<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7tnvat22e5\">pic.twitter.com\/7tnvat22e5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Yossi Gozlan (@YossiGozlan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/YossiGozlan\/status\/1807094787478311278?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 29, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LeBron James is now eligible to sign a three-year $162M deal with the No Trade clause.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":389615,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[175],"typology":[183],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-394636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","rumors-nba-rumors","typology-rumors"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/05\/lebron-james-76ers.png","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394636"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=394636"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=394636"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=394636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}