{"id":59809,"date":"2025-05-27T18:02:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T18:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/59809\/"},"modified":"2025-05-27T18:02:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T18:02:11","slug":"lebron-james-reportedly-likely-to-opt-into-player-option-with-the-lakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/59809\/","title":{"rendered":"LeBron James reportedly likely to opt into player option with the Lakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ESPN&#8217;s Shams Charania suggested that LeBron James will likely return to the Los Angeles Lakers next season after losing to the Minnesota Timberwolves in the first round of the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Charanaia appeared on the Pat McAfee Show and shared what he knew about the 40-year-old&#8217;s future with the team.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m told he&#8217;s likely to opt in,&#8221; Charania said. &#8220;He&#8217;s got a player option of $54-57 million. He&#8217;s got a massive player option. That&#8217;s likely, that&#8217;s the plan. His option date is June 29, so he still has about a month to figure [it] out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>James is in the second year of a two-year, $101,355,998 million contract with the Lakers with a reported cap hit of just over $52.6 million in the 2025-26 season <a data-i13n=\"cpos:1;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.spotrac.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/2257\/lebron-james\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:per Spotrac;cpos:1;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">per Spotrac<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This story will be updated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ESPN&#8217;s Shams Charania suggested that LeBron James will likely return to the Los Angeles Lakers next season after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59810,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3782],"tags":[7,185,150,307,152,3954,6,2881,14945,5033,567,308],"class_list":{"0":"post-59809","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-minnesota-timberwolves","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-lebron-james","10":"tag-los-angeles-lakers","11":"tag-minnesota","12":"tag-minnesota-timberwolves","13":"tag-minnesotatimberwolves","14":"tag-nba","15":"tag-pat-mcafee","16":"tag-pat-mcafee-show","17":"tag-player-option","18":"tag-shams-charania","19":"tag-timberwolves"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114581113816150817","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}