him putting his money where his mouth is in order to allow the Lakers to try to have some maneuverability to get better think about it LeBron's going to sign a extension sometime between now and next week that's the timeline here for Rob pinka because he's not going to step on court at in Las Vegas for the USA Basketball training camp without a new deal and he's probably going to sign maybe like a one plus one uh contract extension which means we could be in the phase of his career where there's only one year left we could be in entering into the last year of his career if it's a 1pl one type of contract and so it's like his favorite emoji there's only so much sand left in The Hourglass and this is him showing some urgency and and showing some willingness to partner with the Lakers to try to make them as competitive as possible when you say potentially the final year of LeBron james' career my antenna goes up