NBA insider gives Lakers the best LeBron James news they could ever hope for
The Lakers are playing their best basketball all season.
NBA insider gives Lakers the best LeBron James news they could ever hope for originally appeared on The Sporting News . Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here . As the months tick down toward free agency in June, LeBron James is eyeing one last championship run with the Los Angeles Lakers .
NBA insider Brian Windhorst believes there is incontrovertible evidence that James, 41, "believes" in this Lakers team -- which is 45-25 and on track to claim the three-seed in the stacked Western Conference. MORE: LeBron James ties Boston Celtics legend for astonishing NBA record The Lakers have won eight in a row -- and though Luka Doncic's sizzling form has taken the headlines, James' own performances have shown that he has plenty left in the tank. The NBA's all-time leading scorer posted a 19-point, 15-rebound, 10-assist triple-double against the Miami Heat on Thursday, a game in which Doncic went off for 60 points in a 134-126 victory.
"If you watch LeBron over the decades, there are times where you get to a point in the season and you know that he doesn't believe in this team. You just know it when you see it," Windhorst said Friday on ESPN's "First Take. " "I know it when I see it.
LeBron believes in this team. " "I know it when I see it. LeBron believes in this team.