{"id":1183480,"date":"2022-08-19T00:05:25","date_gmt":"2022-08-19T00:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/19\/lebron-james-los-angeles-lakers-agree-to-2-year-97-1-million\/"},"modified":"2022-08-19T00:05:25","modified_gmt":"2022-08-19T00:05:25","slug":"lebron-james-los-angeles-lakers-agree-to-2-year-97-1-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/19\/lebron-james-los-angeles-lakers-agree-to-2-year-97-1-million\/","title":{"rendered":"LeBron James, Los Angeles Lakers agree to 2-year, $97.1 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"497\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/LEBRON-750x536-1-696x497.png\"   alt=\"Lebron James\" title=\"Lebron James\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lebron James<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James has agreed to a two-year, $97.1 million contract extension that includes a player option for the 2024-25 season, Klutch Sports CEO Rich Paul told ESPN on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The extension, which includes a 15% trade kicker, makes James the highest-earning player in NBA history with $532 million in career guaranteed money, surpassing Brooklyn Nets star Kevin Durant.<\/p>\n<p>James is ineligible for a no-trade clause because he agreed on an extension \u2014 not a new deal. But the new contract\u2019s starting salary of $46.7 million, the 15% trade kicker and James\u2019 stature as one of history\u2019s great players likely make him a Laker for as long as he chooses.<\/p>\n<p>James had been entering the final season of his contract (worth $44.5 million) and now joins All-Star Anthony Davis with the ability to negotiate new deals with the Lakers or become free agents in two seasons.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>With the deal, the four-time NBA champion and MVP and 18-time All-Star eliminates concern that he could enter free agency next summer.<\/p>\n<p>Despite approaching 38 years old, James remains an All-NBA-level player and the centerpiece of the Lakers\u2019 contention hopes.<\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"qV2npmr4Y2w\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"As I said at first, I don&#039;t want to marry her again - Husband Tells - Obra on Adom TV.\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qV2npmr4Y2w?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lebron James Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James has agreed to a two-year, $97.1 million contract extension that includes a player option for the 2024-25 season, Klutch Sports CEO Rich Paul told ESPN on Wednesday. The extension, which includes a 15% trade kicker, makes James the highest-earning player in NBA history with $532 million in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1183482,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[4492,806,9145,901,7402,15990,9147,290],"class_list":["post-1183480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-2year","tag-agree","tag-angeles","tag-james","tag-lakers","tag-lebron","tag-los","tag-million"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1183480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1183480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1183480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1183480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}