Brian Windhorst and Ramona Shelburne gave the masses an impression of the Los Angeles Lakers drifting further and further apart from LeBron James. One of the major tokens that would have spoken to that was James being kept in the dark about the team's sale. That proved not to be the case.
ESPN applied a major correction to the original reporting of the inside look of the situation in Los Angeles. After suggesting James was unaware of the record-breaking sale, unlike Luka Doncic, that notion was walked back.
The new update wrote, "After the publication of this article, sources said James was notified of the sale, via his representation.