LeBron James chooses LA, agrees to $154 million contract with Lakers
by Tania Ganguli, Los Angeles Times
Jul 02, 2018
4 minutes
LOS ANGELES - LeBron James chose the Los Angeles Lakers.
After five years of missing the playoffs, infighting, turmoil, bad contracts and snubs in free agency, the Lakers got the man whose opinion matters more than anyone else's every four summers.
The Lakers have a superstar again.
James agreed to a four-year deal worth $154 million. His camp let the Lakers know minutes before releasing a one-sentence announcement on the Twitter account of Klutch Sports, the agency that represents James.
He didn't wait long to make his decision. James' decision came on the first full day of NBA free agency, just 20 hours after
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