Woj reveals WHAT’S NEXT for LeBron James & Paul George ahead of NBA Free Agency 👀 | SportsCenter

Woj reveals WHAT’S NEXT for LeBron James & Paul George ahead of NBA Free Agency 👀 | SportsCenter

to the NBA free agency officially starts today players can begin signing with teams 6 p.m. eastern time this evening a lot of groundwork though has already been laid yesterday players having until 5:00 p.m. to opt out of deals including LeBron James who did declining the final year of his current deal with LA to the tune of 51.4 million his agent Rich Paul says James wants a better roster in LA and we’ll work with them to make that happen if even if that means a pay cut as we use quotation marks pay cut oh W in the building his Super Bowl Bone’s about to go crazy this morning and throughout the day W what does this mean now for the Lakers with James opting out well he he’s going to sign a new deal regardless with the Lakers get a chance to play with bronny and he’ll decide how the length of that deal he can do a three-year $162 million deal he could do a one plus one but there’s a sense probably LeBron James starts to really take this year to year but what he’s telling the Lakers is if they can find an impact player at the mid-level exception about $13 million whether that’s a Klay Thompson a James Harden a Jonas valent chunis maybe a couple others this is not a star Laden free agency class he will take less on his contract to to allow the Lakers uh to add that exception into their payroll right now he’s due to make about 50 million plus with his new deal he’d have to take about 20 mlion ion dollar less for the Lakers to have their full mid-level exception but James Harden he’s going to get more than double that probably to return to the Clippers uh Valen chunis Klay Thompson you know there’s certainly other options for them it’s not going to be easy for the Lakers whether LeBron is willing to take a pay cut or not to land an impact player uh at that spot but he said he’s willing to do it and how long is he given the Lakers to work with a potential timeline cuz now James has to tune up for the the Olympics in Vegas here in a couple of weeks right so he probably wants to divert his attention well the market itself these kinds of players are probably going to come off the board pretty quickly in free agency so I I don’t know that it’s going to be uh a real relevant point about when Camp is okay you know these kind of deals with these kind of players tend to move within the first two three days at the latest okay it’s going to get active let’s stay in La something Paul George potentially might not do as he now opts out of his uh his his year there so what are some options now for PG well number one you know he’s going to meet with his with the Clippers he’s going to meet with the Philadelphia 76ers who are a significant threat to lure him away and also the Orlando Magic okay who have also have the cap space along with Philly to sign Paul George he and the Clippers have been negotiating for a year they haven’t gotten there on a deal the Clippers got there on a three-year deal below the max with Kawhi Leonard they want to do the same kind of deal with Paul George there’s a new colle there’s a new colle a bargaining agreement there’s a new salary cap and the Clippers feel like they’ve got to take those players at a little bit less to put a group around them that’s good enough to win and you’ve also got players in their mid-30s what they’ve not wanted to do is do a fourth year on a Paul George deal I think if they had he might already have committed back there and so certainly right now in Philadelphia in Orlando their willingness to go to a fourth year makes those very attractive destinations for him if the Clippers were going to offer that fourth year they probably would have already but for Paul George to walk away from La that’s home his family is there he went back to the Clippers cuz he wanted to be there not easy but he’s going to meet with the Clippers magic Sixers or Clippers magic Sixers uh beginning late tonight okay and then into Monday 600 p.m. Eastern they can start signing as soon as W hears something so too will you thanks W thanks girl [Music] [Applause] [Music] n [Applause]

Adrian Wojnarowski joins SportsCenter to break down what it means for the Los Angeles Lakers and the LA Clippers after both stars LeBron James and Paul George have opted out of their respective contracts.

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