LeBron James next team odds: Could ‘The King’ Actually Leave Los Angeles?

Are the Los Angeles Lakers contemplating buying and selling LeBron James?

In latest days, there was some unexpected chatter about James’ future in L.A. And now, DraftKings Sportsbook has dropped odds for the longer term Corridor of Famer’s subsequent staff.

What’s going on?

First, let’s check out the percentages as of July 1. 

First regular-season minute performed to be for which NBA staff (2025-26)

Lakers: -1000 (wager $10 to win $11 whole)
Mavericks: +600 (wager $10 to win $70 whole)
Cavaliers: +1000 (wager $10 to win $110 whole)
Bucks: +2000 (wager $10 to win $210 whole)
Warriors: +2500 (wager $10 to win $260 whole)
Knicks: +3000 (wager $10 to win $310 whole)
Clippers: +3500 (wager $10 to win $360 whole)

Normally, when there are odds out there for an prevalence, it has a minimum of a small probability of occurring. 

And though the Lakers are the heavy favourite to retain James, and James simply picked up his $52.6 million possibility for subsequent season, the rumor mill is swirling round the concept that James might ask out of Tinseltown. 

According to ESPN, James’ agent Wealthy Paul stated that a number of groups had reached out to him concerning James being out there on the commerce market. 

Paul additionally urged that he and James would analyze the Lakers’ roster on the finish of free company to find out if it might compete for a championship as constructed. 

James has a no-trade clause in his contract, that means it will be utterly as much as him the place he landed in a possible commerce, and ESPN’s Brian Windhorst additionally reported this week {that a} commerce can be unlikely given James’ large contract and what it will take for a staff to accumulate James. 

Nonetheless, the percentages exist. 

Second to the Lakers on the board are the Mavericks, who simply landed Cooper Flagg with the No. 1 choose, and simply final season traded Luka Dončić to L.A. for Anthony Davis, Max Christie and a first-round choose.

Third are the Cavaliers, the franchise that drafted James and one he led to a championship in 2016. 

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