Welcome to our Lakers Season Preview Series! For the next several weeks, we’ll be writing columns every weekday, breaking down the biggest questions we have about every player the Lakers added this offseason. Today, we take a look at LeBron James.
Every retired NBA great has eventually succumbed to the increasing mental and physical pressures that mount with age. Kobe Bryant was never able to recapture the agility he had before his Achilles tear. Even Michael Jordan bowed out of the league twice for exhaustion, and then for a third and final time after a sub-standard run with the Washington Wizards.