Daily Ding: LeBron James signs 2 year extension; NBA Schedule Release Highlights
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🗓️ 17 August 2022
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Keith Parish and Dave DuFour discuss LeBron James' two year contract extension with the Los Angeles Lakers and the marquee matchups from the NBA's schedule.
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| 0:00.0 | One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. |
| 0:10.0 | Welcome to the NBA Daily Ding on the Athletic NBA Show. |
| 0:14.1 | Ding, ding! |
| 0:15.2 | How about we can just watch basketball? |
| 0:18.1 | I like that idea. |
| 0:22.5 | Hello, and welcome to The Daily Ding on The Athletic NBA show. |
| 0:26.1 | I'm Dave Before here with Keith Parrish for some actual basketball news. |
| 0:30.9 | Before we start, don't forget, you can get this podcast without ads by going to theathletic.com |
| 0:35.1 | slash NBA show and subscribing. |
| 0:37.6 | Keith, a little breaking news out of Lakerland and nobody was traded, but we have a deal. |
| 0:45.2 | LeBron James and the Lakers have agreed to a two-year, $97.1 million contract extension |
| 0:53.3 | that includes a player option for the 24-25 season. |
| 0:57.9 | So ostensibly, Keith, this is a one plus one, and he had a year left. |
| 1:03.7 | So three years under contract, if he chooses to take that player option, which is going to be a massive amount of money at that point. |
| 1:10.9 | There's also a 15% trade kicker, which on a max contract, Keith, is kind of nothing unless |
| 1:18.3 | the salary cap goes up. Yeah, I think the biggest angle to this story, I mean, yes, LeBron James |
| 1:24.1 | commits to the Lakers for at least one more year that he was already under contract. |
| 1:32.6 | But it seems like LeBron and his people trying to take a little wind out of the sales of NBA schedule release day. |
| 1:34.4 | We've been counting down this NBA schedule and then two minutes early. |
| 1:38.7 | Everyone gets the Woj bomb and it's like, oh, is Woj going to weigh in on the schedule leaks? |
| 1:43.5 | No, we had LeBron James news. |
| 1:45.7 | I'm surprised. |
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