Even worse than James? With an expiring contract + no renewal, will the Lakers give up on him now?

This summer, James has implemented the player option for the first time in his career, and it is also the first time that he has not received an early contract renewal - at present, Pelinka still shows no sign of providing a contract.

Why has Pelinka not provided James with a contract so far?

Description point 1: Data. In the 24-25 season, James scored a total of 1,710 points, 546 rebounds, 575 assists, and Jokic was the only two players who scored at least 1,500 points, 500 rebounds, 500 assists.

In addition, the true shooting rate of 60.4% is still at the top level of the league with Antetokounmpo, Alexander and others.

In other words, even at the age of 40, James can still produce beautiful data.

Explanation point 2: Importance. When James was present, the Lakers lost 1.3 points in 100 rounds; in the 1502 minutes when they were not present, the team defeated the opponent in 100 rounds instead by 4.9 points.

In short, when James is not present, the Lakers have a higher probability of winning. From the side, this is far from what is reflected in the data.

In fact, it is different from Curry, Tatum, Harden and others. James is the only one among the 15 players in the first, second and third teams in the 24-25 season where the plus or negative values ​​are negative.

The data is beautiful but not very helpful to the team, which is very suspicious of data swiping. Based on this, Pelinka did not renew the contract, we can understand it as:

The Lakers have entered the Doncic era and have to always understand the feelings of the boss. This is a bit like Westbrook after joining the Lakers. It doesn’t matter whether the data is beautiful or not. What’s important is the side effects of winning.

Like James, Hachimura Shizuki also played good data in the 24-25 season, especially the finishing efficiency - the true shooting rate of 61.9% is completely at the top level.

How important is Hachimura Shizuo to the Lakers?

When Hachimura was present, the Lakers had a net loss of 3.9 points in 100 rounds, second only to Doncic and Finney Smith; when they were not present, the team had a net loss of 1.5 points in 100 rounds, second only to Doncic, Finney Smith and Reeves.

On the offensive end alone, Hachimura Shizuo is even more important to the team than Reeves.

Of course, everything has two sides.

After all, whether it is the card or the combat power, Hachimura Shizuo cannot control the team like Doncic. It has the possibility of being traded.

Will the Lakers trade Hachimura Hiroshi?

Yes.

Reason 1: Intra-team angle. Compared with Lakers role players such as Vincent and Vanderbilt, Hachimura Shizuki is obviously more powerful in fighting. From another perspective, if you want to complete the reinforcement, you can only bring out Hachimura Shizuo - the negotiating opponent is not stupid, if you don’t bring out good things, I won’t give you good things.

Reason 2: Outside the team angle. Doncic will not be traded and James has the right to veto the trade. If you want to ask the Lakers for chips, except for draft picks, Hachimura Shizuo is the one who wants to ask for chips.

Speaking of this, something interesting is coming.

According to the NBA China official website, the Lakers revealed that the team will not renew their contract with Hachimura in the short term.

The contract expires and no renewal is allowed. Obviously, the Lakers are going to give up Hachimura. The reason is very simple. If Pelinka had already renewed her contract in the team plan. For this, please refer to Reeves - this summer, Pelinka immediately sent nearly 90 million in advance contract renewal for four years.

In this way, in my opinion, Hachimura is even worse than James.

First of all, both James and Hachimura scored beautiful data in the 24-25 season, but the result was that neither of them received an early renewal of their contract. The difference is that James has the right to veto the transaction, which makes it difficult to be traded. To take a step back, even if Mingxia cannot get the maximum salary contract, the team is still willing to give a contract with an annual salary of 20 million yuan.

As for Hachimura, there is no veto on the transaction, and can only be "manipulated" by the team. Taking a step back, being traded in the contract year will also affect the next contract if the new team needs to run-in.

Finally, it is recommended that Pelinka not renew the contract in advance, and it is highly likely that the Lakers will give up (trading) Hachimura Shizuo.