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When you review the many, many so-called experts, the dime store experts who had ruminated and conjectured and contemplated the future of LeBron James, it is all over now.

LeBron has raised the white flag.

He is satisfied with those eight trips in a row to the NBA finals. It is now more about other things. That's pretty much the takeaway here

from the news. LeBron James agreeing to leave Cleveland again. See you later. I'm out of here

in a prepared statement by his agency.

I assume you heard this by now, but maybe not. I don't know. You got other stuff going on.

LeBron James agrees to a four-year contract in the neighborhood of $154 million to take his talents to the woe begone Lakers.

That is where LeBron James is headed.

That's a four-year contract, but year four is a player option,

so it could only be a three-year stay, and then that's it.

It's the longest contract, though, we are told LeBron has signed since back when he left for the Miami Hedels way back almost a decade ago in 2010.

So contracts usually were shorter, three-year contracts or less for LeBron Jeebs.

All right, so let's talk about this.

Now, the question, your initial reaction, the news coming down

Sunday evening, your reaction to LeBron James being headed to the Lakers. Now my thoughts on

this, I have priorities, the twilight, and array for Hollywood, all of those things. And we

will tie them together here.

And first of all, I think we can all agree on this.

This LeBron James news that LeBron is going to Lakers is not at all about basketball.

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