{"id":770857,"date":"2026-06-26T06:45:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T06:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/770857\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T06:45:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T06:45:17","slug":"lakers-have-not-made-lebron-james-an-offer-yet-and-communication-has-been-limited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/770857\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakers have not made LeBron James an offer yet and communication has been limited"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/teams\/la-lakers\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:The Lakers;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;The Lakers&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Lakers<\/a> can create up to $50 million in space and James may be willing to be flexible on his contract depending on how the team uses the space to upgrade its roster as <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/players\/6014\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:Luka Doncic;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Luka Doncic&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Luka Doncic<\/a> begins his second full season with the team. <a href=\"https:\/\/basketball.realgm.com\/wiretap\/286284\/LeBron-James-Hasnt-Received-Contract-Offer-Yet-From-Lakers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:&quot;There was a check-in call made, to my understanding, early in free agency once teams were able to start negotiating with their own free agents after the end of the NBA Finals,&quot; said ESPN&#039;s Shams Charania on NBA Today. &quot;Since then though there hasn&#039;t been much communication, from my understanding, between the Lakers and LeBron James&#039; side. And certainly not an offer yet;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;&amp;quot&quot;}\" class=\"link \">&#8220;There was a check-in call made, to my understanding, early in free agency once teams were able to start negotiating with their own free agents after the end of the NBA Finals,&#8221; said ESPN&#8217;s Shams Charania on NBA Today. &#8220;Since then though there hasn&#8217;t been much communication, from my understanding, between the Lakers and LeBron James&#8217; side. And certainly not an offer yet<\/a>. &#8220;They&#8217;re trying to see what can they do with his $50 million of space, potentially, and then where does that leave LeBron?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/basketball.realgm.com\/wiretap\/286284\/LeBron-James-Hasnt-Received-Contract-Offer-Yet-From-Lakers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:RealGM;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;RealGM&quot;}\" class=\"link \">RealGM<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Lakers can create up to $50 million in space and James may be willing to be flexible&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":767387,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,23075,30132,185,368,6,567,2152],"class_list":["post-770857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-basketball","tag-communication","tag-james-may","tag-lebron-james","tag-luka-doncic","tag-nba","tag-shams-charania","tag-the-lakers"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116815064200000820","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770857","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=770857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/767387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=770857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=770857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=770857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}