Colin Cowherd

I mean, he just finished up a 50, what, $52 million option year.

So you would think...

to improve some of the pieces around them that he's not looking dollar for dollar for the same number.

All right.

It's not, it's not like, you know, this gets into this like almost labor dispute of like, why is it up to us to tell him that he should make a little bit less?

It's real simple.

Hey man, what are your goals?

Are your goals to be a better team?

Then we can't pay $50 million for this year, you know?

And I actually think the Lakers have done like a lot of great things for LeBron.

And you'd think it still makes more sense for him in Los Angeles.

There is not another team out there where I don't know that they would have.

There's not many teams with cap space and the teams that have cap space, like sure, maybe they'd throw a big number to sell a bunch of tickets, but would he really want that to be his last season?

I mean, I would think all of them can get on the same page here, but every now and then, like he's a difficult partner.

You know, he's going to play it out.

He's going to play the whole thing out.

But them running it back and hoping Luke is healthy and improving center, the center position, like even if there's a gap between a healthy OKC and San Antonio, all the next teams, that's not necessarily a bad plan to have to go into next year.

We are constantly obsessed in this league of like, oh, you came in a championship.

Well, start over.

You're like, well, that's not fun either.