BREAKING: LeBron James Signs With Lakers For $154 Million Deal, Comes To Los Angeles

BREAKING: LeBron James Signs With Lakers For $154 Million Deal, Comes To Los Angeles

The Decision 3.0 has been made and LeBron James is taking his talents to the Los Angeles Lakers. James reportedly agreed to a four-year, $154 million deal with the team Sunday, according to Klutch Sports. The 33-year-old James is coming off a season in which he averaged 27.5 points per game with the Cleveland Cavaliers. James led Cleveland to the NBA Finals, but lost to the Golden State Warriors in four games. The Lakers had a large amount of cap space to work with. The team was projected to have a little under $50 million to hand out. That put them in the running to sign not just James, but potentially a few other strong players. James’ four-year, $154 million contract will net him over $35 million each season, according to Bobby Marks of ESPN.

James will make $25.65 million next season. That number will slowly rise over the course of the contract. In his final season with the club, James will make $41 million. He is also not eligible for a no-trade clause. In his time with the Cavs, James managed to bring a championship to Cleveland. Fans reacted angrily the first time he left the team in free agency. There might be far fewer burned jerseys this time around. LeBron James agrees to 4-year, $154M deal with Los Angeles Lakers. James has agreed to a 4-year, $154 million deal with the Los Angeles Lakers, Klutch Sports Group announced on Sunday, ending weeks, if not months, of speculation as to where he would take his talents this time around. James' fourth year is a player option. It's the longest deal he has signed since inking a six-year deal with the Heat in 2010. His previous three deals were all three years or shorter. James' move to the Lakers comes four years after he went back home to Cleveland, where he had stated his intention to finish his career with the Cavaliers. James thanked his home area in an Instagram story. Saying in text overlaying a photo from the Cavs' 2016 NBA title victory parade, "Thank you Northeast Ohio for an incredible 4 seasons. This will always be home." He delivered the first championship to the sports-obsessed city in 52 years and did it with storybook gusto, helping the Cavaliers become the first team in NBA Finals history to rally from a 3-1 series deficit to win it all. The team he took down, the Golden State Warriors, had the best regular season record in league history at 73-9. And James put his stamp on Game 7 with one of the most memorable defensive plays in the history of the sport, chasing down Andre Iguodala to block the Warriors forward from behind in a tied ballgame, erasing a go-ahead layup. It's sure to be one of the most cherished defensive sequences that basketball will ever see and it led to James bellowing into Doris Burke's microphone, "Cleveland, this is for you!"

James leaves the franchise as its leader in nearly every major statistical category: games played, points, rebounds, assists and steals. And if 2017-18 was his final act in Cleveland, what a show he put on, playing in all 82 games for the first time in his 15-year career and capping that off with a postseason performance as personally dominant as any playoff run he's ever been a part of.

James, who will become the first player in NBA history to lead a postseason in scoring then switch teams the following offseason, will now join the illustrious list of NBA legends to play for Lakers. Six of the top eight scorers in NBA history have played for the Lakers (James ranks seventh) and six of 13 players to win multiple MVPs (James has four) have also donned purple and yellow.

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