Lakers have not closed the door on James returning next season

According to team and league sources, the Lakers have not closed the door on James returning next season. While it’s been the organization’s public position that it hopes James retires as a Laker, the run in March was the clearest example of the basketball advantages of pairing him with Doncic and Reaves. “It was real,” one Lakers executive said of the stretch, the winning and the chemistry.