LOS ANGELES, CA. — Well playas…the King has finally come home to Hollywood!!! On Sunday Klutch Sports Group let a boy know that LeBron James had just signed a 4-year deal worth $154 million to play for the Lakers. He’s now officially the celebrity among celebrities and the Staples Center is the main attraction in LA all over again.
Can you imagine the foolishness that’s about to go down out there with LeBron in town. This has absolutely nothin’ to do with basketball bruh. You’ve got the best basketball player on the planet in my Bootsie Collins voice in, “Um LA California-IA the city of Angels…Hollywood!!”
Before we even talk basketball, think about the celebrity attraction that Lakers games will be again. It’s Showtime!!!! I wouldn’t be surprised if Magic pulled a Dr. Buss move and recreated the Forum parties at the arena for the VIP fans after the games. It’s goin’ to be NUTS!!!!
Now let’s keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1st! This move makes absolutely NO sense from a LeBron basketball perspective. From a personal and financial perspective it’s 100 because he’s got crazy film projects on deck. It’s the perfect place for all of that but let’s stick to hoop for a minute playa.
He’s in no better situation than he was in Cleveland and as a matter of fact, it’s worse from a title contender standpoint. Playin’ in the East he could get up in the mornin’ and get to the Finals. Now he’s got to go through both Houston and Golden State just to get to the Finals and that’s problem A, B and C.
Then he’ll be playin’ with a bunch of young cats that he can completely dictate policy on includin’ the darn coach. Luke Walton can’t coach a dun that knows more about the game of basketball than he does and they’re peers. Walton and LeBron were drafted in the same class in 2003.
So guess who’ll be coachin’ the darn team again? It’s Ty Lue all over again bruh. They added Lance Stephenson and JaVale Magee on Sunday night as well. That’s a dumpster fire waitin’ to happen. You’ve got Lance “The Don Dada” who I loved in Indiana because he was the spark off of the bench that they needed.
However, he was a handful to keep in check and duns like Charlotte, the Clippers, Memphis, New Orleans and Minnesota found out first hand over a three year span. The dun can be a loose cannon at times in practice and he’s literally JR Smith reincarnated because there are times when he doesn’t think with the ball in his hands. Every beer man or woman workin’ the first few rows in the Staples Center will need to be trained on keepin’ their heads on a swivel because that dun will hit at least one cat in the head per night with an errant pass. That’s goin’ to frustrate the crap out of LeBron and that’s the edited version.
JaVale Magee was playin’ in a perfect system with shooters everywhere in Golden State. They would spread the floor and get the best shots. All he had to do was clean up. There was no pressure on him. So unless the Lakers are goin’ to suddenly become Golden State, the former star of Shaqtin a Fool will be back and guess what, LeBron is goin’ to be pullin’ the rest of his hair out playin’ with him.
And don’t think for one minute that San Antonio is about to trade Kawhi to the Lakers so that they’ve got to compete against them. That makes no sense. They’ll ship that dun to a truck stop in Green Bay, Wisconsin before they trade him to the Lakers.
So big shout to Lebron for changin’ his basketball address but his frustrations will be the same because there’s nobody on sideline to manage him. He’s so good that he can and does play every position on the floor all night every night. That makes him the best player I’ve ever seen play this game but it doesn’t make him the best winner.
Why? Because as he’s floatin’ between positions all night the cats that he’s playin’ with can’t ever get into a rhythm. One minute he’s playin’ the point then he’s at the 4 then over to the 2 and so on and so forth. So every time a boy gets up to refill his drink LeBron is sittin’ in his seat when he gets back. That’s frustratin’ to any legitimate superstar that has a defined position a’ la Kyrie Irving. That’s why he demanded a trade.
If you don’t have a coach in place that can manage his talent then it’s a problem. Great players need coaches that understand how to manage that type of talent and ego. That’s why Jordan found success as a winner once Phil showed up. He was scorin’ all kinds of points before Jackson arrived but he was losin’.
It wasn’t until ole boy broke Mike down and said, “You can keep winnin’ scorin’ titles or you can learn how to win NBA titles!” That was the game changer. A coach that understood how to manage great players. Luke Walton ain’t that dude playa.
So the window dressin’ will look great but that’s about it, at least for this year anyway. Next year Kawhi will be an unrestricted free agent and then it’ll be Chris Brown up in that piece, “On and Poppin’!” Stop me when I start lyin’!
Playas Thesaurus:
1) Dun: noun – the person in question, dude, guy, etc. It’s whoever I’m talkin’ about and its non-gender specific.
2) Ole boy: noun – the person that I’m currently talkin’ about.
The G is excluded from the endings of all words because the G is near and dear to my heart because I’m from “The G” which is Gary, Indiana. So I only use the G when I’m talkin’ about “The G!”
The caption under the photo isn’t real but its real talk!