LeBron James signs with the Los Angeles Lakers. Now what?

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LeBron James signed a 4-year, $154M contract to become a Los Angeles Laker on Sunday.

This coming after Paul George signed a 4-year, $147M contract to stay with the Oklahoma City Thunder.

So if George isn’t coming to LA, and the Spurs have shown no interest in trading Kawhi Leonard to the Lakers, who is going to be playing with the King?

I’m a little surprised at the current combination of Lance Stephenson, Javale McGee, and Rajon Rondo… but those are all 1-year contracts, which opens up A TON of flexibility for next season.

LeBron has called DeMarcus Cousins “the best big man in the game” before, so, even though he signed with the Warriors on a 1-year, $5.3M deal yesterday, there’s still a big chance that he could end up signing in LA next year.  Cousins won’t play until late December or January anyway, since he is coming off of an Achilles injury.  Who knows when he’ll be back to form?

So who else is left this year?  Not a lot of big names, but guys that could fit.
  • Wayne Ellington (great from 3)
  • Nick Young (Swaggy P back in LA?  He’s a shooter…)
  • Tyreke Evans (he can score)
  • Dwayne Wade (he did well for Miami… but he didn’t do well for Cleveland early last season)

…and that’s where I start to run out of names.

But here’s what King James is looking at for next season (2019):
  • Carmelo Anthony
  • Klay Thompson
  • Kawhi Leonard
  • Kemba Walker
  • DeMarcus Cousins

Imagine Klay or Kemba, Melo, and Kawhi in LA with the King and possibly Boogie Cousins.

So if you’re looking for the Lakers to win a championship… don’t look for it this season.  Look for 2019.

Gary Segars

Gary began his first website in 1998 as a sophomore in high school, writing reviews of cds and live shows in the Memphis area. He became editor of his college newspaper, then moved towards a career in music.He started the infamous MemphisTider.com blog during the 2006 football season, and was lucky enough to get into blogging just before the coaching search that landed Nick Saban at Alabama. The month and a half long coaching search netted his site, which was known for tracking airplanes, over 1 million hits in less than 90 days. The website introduced Gary to tons of new friends, including Nico and Todd, who had just started the site RollBamaRoll.com.After diving into more than just Alabama news, Gary started up his first installment of WinningCuresEverything.com in 2012. After keeping the site quiet for a while, it was started back up in April 2016. Gary then joined forces with high school friend Chris Giannini and began a podcast during the 2016 football season that runs at least 2 times a week, focusing on college football, NFL football, and sports wagering, and diving into other sports and pop-culture topics.E-mail: gary@winningcureseverything.com Twitter: @GaryWCE