Call it buyer’s remorse. call it revisionist thinking. Whatever you want to call it, LeBron James is going through it with the Lakers this year.
Eight months ago, James advocated for bringing in Russell Westbrook via trade without expressing much of that same desire for then-teammate Alex Caruso. The team didn’t need to choose between Westbrook and Caruso — or Talen Horton-Tucker and Caruso, for that matter — but the point guard that helped the Lakers win an NBA title was undervalued across the franchise.
The result? An insultingly low offer from the Lakers in free agency that saw the Caruso dart for the Windy City.