NBA superstar LeBron James has agreed to a two-year
extension to his contract with the Los Angeles Lakers on Wednesday, in a deal
worth $97.1 million, according to various reports, including ESPN‘s Adrian
Wojnarowski.
The new contract takes the 37-year-old to $532 million in
guaranteed career earnings, making him the highest paid player in terms of
salary in the league’s history, surpassing Brooklyn Nets star Kevin Durant.
The deal includes a player option for the 2024/25 season,
which means that James will be able to opt out of the final year of the
contract if he no longer wants to stay with the team.
CNN has reached out to the Lakers to confirm the new contract.
The new deal puts to rest any notion of James, who is
already an official billionaire, becoming a free agent next year with the
four-time NBA champion and MVP instead focusing on making more history with the
Lakers.
The new season gets underway on October 18 and, if he steers
clear of injury, James should be on track to overtake Kareem Abdul-Jabbar as
the NBA’s all-time leading scorer.
James averaged 30.3 points per game in 56 appearances last
season despite the Lakers missing the playoffs in a difficult season.
But the franchise now has the salary-cap flexibility to add
another max contract player to the team, potentially bolstering the
star-studded roster which already boasts the likes of James, Russell Westbrook
and Anthony Davis.
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