LeBron James

Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James sent a clear message to the front office about making trades ahead of the deadline.

has now won five straight games to get back in the postseason mix though and at 19-21, the team is just two games out of the 5-seed in a wide-open Western Conference. 9 deadline, especially now that James has been loud and clear about what he wants to see happen. You guys know. For a while it looked like the team wouldn’t be making any moves considering they looked to be far away from contender status. I don’t have time to be… Well if you guys know, then you guys know.

James, fresh off a 37-point showing in the Lakers' fifth straight win, applied pressure to L.A.'s front office.

The next month leading up to the Feb. His comments late on Saturday made it clear that he is not a fan of the approach the front office is taking. I want to win and give myself a chance to win, and still compete for championships," James said. What James is referring to is the Lakers trading one or both of their remaining future first-round picks in 2027 and 2029 to get him some help. "I'm a winner and I want to win. "Y'all know what the f--- should be happening," James said.

Winning a fifth straight game normally would be a celebratory occasion for any team, even one as middling as your lackluster 19-21 Los Angeles Lakers.

On Sunday, the Athletic's Sam Amick reported that LeBron James "made it clear that his patience is waning" during an interview regarding the Los Angeles ...

But it's hard to imagine that he isn't acutely aware of the Lakers' roster limitations and how much that caps their upside. It's hard to imagine a team that started the season 2-10 or one that was under .500 in January going on to win a championship. "Man, listen, I play the game," he added in the interview. We've known for a few years that LeBron James would be positioned to become the NBA's all-time leading scorer this season. Any team with James and Anthony Davis will pose some semblance of a threat in the postseason, especially with LeBron still going strong at 38. "Y'all know what the f--k should be happening," James said.

LeBron James is beating Father Time. But one thing a candid one-on-one talk we shared revealed is that he clearly wants more help. And soon.

[LeBron James has honored his commitment to the Lakers. In the end, the choice was made to wait for a deal that made a more significant impact on the Lakers roster, both in the present and the future. … We just want to play the game. With travel essentials in hand, James strolled toward the team bus and chatted with The Athletic after his postgame news conference with reporters. But as James discussed during his postgame news conference, and as he So many assumed that he’d be relegated to record-chasing during this time, with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s all-time scoring record of 38,387 points now just 422 points away. I don’t have time to be… All along the way, there has been a concern that this team isn’t good enough to justify trades that would cost the organization its few remaining assets while leaving it well short of title-contender status. The internal debate regarding those picks and how to best use them has been ongoing since last summer. And with the Feb. As James headed toward a plane bound for Denver, with the Lakers having pulled their way back into the playoff race that seemed to be slipping away from them when Davis went down with a right foot injury in mid-December, it was his two minutes of candor on the Lakers’ roster management that will likely be remembered even more than his latest remarkable outing. “I don’t need to talk.”

In his most extensive comments yet on the Lakers' lack of upgrades — and more specifically the reluctance to trade the 2027 and 2029 first-round picks that ...

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NBA has never seen something like this before, and nor have the Los Angeles Lakers. And yet, they fail to surround The King with something good enough for a ...

If they decide to trade LeBron James by the end of this season, they should well start from scratch and be done with AD and his injuries too. failing to get wins the day in and day out. The GM was hesitant to trade the 2027 1st round picks when the Lakers could have gotten maybe Kyrie Irving or Buddy Hield plus Myles Turner, and some of the other rumored players they had interests in a few weeks back when the fans were sick of James and Co. With Anthony Davis still in their ranks, they will be able to build around him if James really decides to leave. According to Athletic, recent developments in LA are suggesting that its King isn’t happy with the current roster. NBA has never seen something like this before, and nor have the Los Angeles Lakers.

Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James emphasized his desire to win games now despite all the individual accolades he's accomplished.

Thomas Bryant has been a big part of the team’s turnaround and Outside of the 2020 NBA Championship, James’ tenure in Los Angeles has been underwhelming and that’s saying something considering how well he has played this late in his career. … So as we sit here right now as a franchise and as a team that’s below .500 — we’ve been playing some good basketball as of late, but we want to and I want to win at the highest level.

Winning a fifth straight game normally would be a celebratory occasion for any team, even one as middling as your lackluster 19-21 Los Angeles Lakers.

I can’t — it’s not my … "You guys know. James has been picking up the scoring burden in a big way with AD shelved. "Man listen, I play the game," James said about the club's team-building. The flip side to that equation: the team is actually just two games behind the West's fifth seed, the 20-18 Kings. But ageless (well, 38-year-old) All-Star superstar LeBron James isn't satisfied with being two games below a .500 record.

LeBron James walked back explosive comments he made to The Athletic about the direction of the Lakers organization ahead of the trade deadline.

LeBron James of the Lakers hasn't explicitly stated that he thinks the front staff should trade its 2027 and 2029 first-round picks in an effort to improve ...

After all, none of the top teams in the Western Conference have isolated themselves as the undisputed favorites to advance to the NBA Finals. The only viable trade chips for the Lakers who earn more than the minimum salary are Russell Westbrook ($47MM), Patrick Beverley ($13MM), and Kendrick Nunn ($5.25MM), and none of them are regarded as favorable assets. The likelihood of the Lakers making a significant deal appeared to decrease after Anthony Davis suffered a foot injury last month. The organization's senior decision-makers including president of basketball operations Rob Pelinka, though, have reportedly been reluctant to trade the 2027 and 2029 first-round picks unless doing so would greatly increase the team's chances of winning the championship. You guys know." You guys know.

'You make it sound like I'm frustrated': LeBron rips journo over reporting of LA's roster plans.

The only other future first rounders the Lakers own are their 2027 and 2029 selections. I worry about who’s in the locker room. I can’t do nobody else’s job,” he told The Athletic. “Man listen, I play the game. I told you over and over, my job is focused on the guys in the locker room, my job isn’t the roster. And I said what I said with the,” James tweeted out on Monday morning (all times AEDT).

Lakers superstar LeBron James took to Twitter on Sunday following previous comments made about his supposed "waning patience."

It’s always been my goal since I entered the league… That has always been my passion. “Hey Sam actually my patience isn’t waning.

Multiple teams bracing for LeBron trade bombshell as contender eyes star duo: NBA Rumour Mill.

And I think if the Cavs had their choice, it would be very very close… If they had their choice, it would be between Bojan and Tim Hardaway Jr,” he said. It comes as Bogdanovic is producing a career-best season for the NBA-worst 11-32 Pistons, averaging 21 points per game on 48.6 per cent shooting from the field and 41.8 per cent from downtown. James, who signed a two-year, $97.1. “According to executives around the league, multiple teams are at least preparing for the possibility that James will seek to force a trade this summer as he, having just turned 38, looks to finish his career in a winning environment,” Deveney wrote. [According to Heavyweight.com’s Sean Deveney](https://heavy.com/sports/los-angeles-lakers/lebron-james-trade-cavaliers-suns/), multiple NBA teams are “at least preparing for the possibility” the 38-year old James will hand in a trade request next off-season.