Since LeBron James has inked his contract with the Los Angeles Lakers, the conversation surrounding his decision has almost exclusively centered around all the non-basketball reasons James might have chosen his latest NBA free agency destination.
However, that ignores all the basketball reasons James would join on, which are still plenty. Lakers head coach Luke Walton outlined a few of them during an appearance on the Jim Rome Show:
“I think he likes what we’re doing here. I think he looks around the league and sees what’s going on, and sees that we have a young team with versatile players that have gotten better each of the last two years.