All week long, ever since LeBron James said at All-Star weekend that “the door’s not closed” on a possible return to the Cavaliers, Lakers fans have had to deal with reports that the noise that James will leave Los Angeles is as loud as its been since the last time he left Cleveland, and endless speculation about his future.
It turns out, however, that all the projections and guesses about whether or not James would actually go home again — or if there is another motivation for his transparent media manipulation attempts — may all be for naught, and not just because James won’t be a free agent until 2023 at the earliest.