LeBron James renewed for two years with the Los Angeles Lakers and will be the richest player and highest scorer in NBA history

If there was any doubt as to what would become of the future of a LeBron James ya de 37 yearswith less success than expected in Los Angeles Lakers, was cleared. The King doubles the bet: he agreed to a two-year contract extension and with it it will become, if nothing abnormal happens, the All-time leader in two NBA categoriesthe best basketball league in the world.

The season that will begin on October 18 will be the last of the current link between James and Lakers. The renewal, not official but announced by Rich Paul, CEO of the Klutch Sports agency, which represents the star, will be for the 2023/2024in which will earn $46,700,000and the 2024/2025in which you will harvest 50.400.000, a fabulous sum, unprecedented for a 39/40-year-old player. Ergo, the $97,100,000 that LeBron will collect in two championships they will the most paid basketball player of the almost eight decades of the National Basketball Associationcon $528,992,480 in mid-2025, according to a calculation made by the journalist Juan Estévez. Since the Akron native will then have completed 22 seasons in the elite, he will have received at a rate of $24,045,112 per contest. In concept of wagesIt is worth clarifying. Other income is not included.

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The other figures of top ten of all time in terms of money received for merely sports contracts are Kevin Durant ($498,688,653), Stephen Curry (470.090.010), Damian Lillard (449.910.157), Bradley Beal (428.874.362), Chris Paul (419.909.419), Nikola Jokic (419.369.513), Karl-Anthony Towns (406.491.723), Devin Booker (390.756.853) y Joel Embiid (374,516,037), according to the count prepared by Estévez based on data from the Spotrac.com site. All those stars are still in activity: such is the economic growth in recent times by that entertainment and marketing machinery that is the NBA.

There were versions that El Rey would be a free agent after 2022/2023 or he would be traded. What’s up: The Los Angeles Lakers, perhaps the most lucrative franchise in the NBA, insured it for a while longer. And then, if all goes well, the organization will be able to do a great tribute to him in the second half of January, or at the beginning of February. Not because of an imminent retirement, of course, but because of history and validity: at that point, if James had not been injured and maintained his usual average of goals per game, will break the all-time league record for points American. He is 1325 units below another hero of the game, Kareem Abdul-Jabbarwhich totaled 38.387. And since that great former pivot is another Lakers icon (1976-1989 in California), the party will be very purple and gold but watched by the entire basketball planet. The “local” and endemic become international, global.

James, what a sum 37,062 goals in his 19 campaigns with a average of 27.1 per gamehave the peace of mind that will continue to have its main side, Anthony Davis. The power forward has already signed to stay until 2024, and the mere presence of both is already a good candidacy platform for a franchise that in recent times, despite the figures and beyond its 2020 conquest (in the bubble of Florida), got less results than intended. There were many injuries, it is true, but also performances below expectations. Not for nothing there were changes in the technical bodies. The Los Angeles Lakers, one of the two most iconic organizations in the NBA, demands to go far in every tournament.

Tournament that will have a couple of novelties in the coming season, and in which for now the Argentine Facundo Campazzo does not have a place, while his agents try to place him in one of the 30 teams in the competition. There will continue to be 82 games per team in the regular stage – there were intentions to reduce the number – and a total of 1,230 (between October 18 and April 9) in that stretch, qualifying for the playoffs and play-ins. The calendar was configured in the way that schools will travel 5% less in distances, which is equivalent to about 80,400 kilometers less between all of them (almost 2,700 less each). “There was a component of the health of the players, also sustainability,” explained Evan Wasch, a member of the agency that makes the calendar, quoted by the AP agency.

The special Christmas day, the most popular on television, will once again offer five meetings, but this time there will be none on the day of the physical national legislative vote in the United States (Tuesday, November 8). On weekends no fewer than 45 matches will be broadcast live to Europe, the Middle East and Africa. And four countries will host clashes in this contest: in addition to the “regular” United States and Canada, they will host action Mexico, with the San Antonio Spurs vs. Miami Heat on December 17 in its capital, and France, with Detroit Pistons vs. Chicago Bulls on January 19 in Paris.

The NBA brings some changes in the championship that already appears on the horizon. But his maximum star does not change: he is still in his current home, very installed in Los Angeles, while his son Bronny, 17, already executes plays that go viral on social networks and portals. The Lakers remain the domain of the James Monarchy.

His son Bronny’s dunk in college basketball, admired by Steph Curry