{"id":770642,"date":"2026-06-30T08:07:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T08:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/770642\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T08:07:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T08:07:16","slug":"some-rival-nba-executives-and-coaches-have-mixed-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/770642\/","title":{"rendered":"Some rival NBA executives and coaches have mixed \u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Lakers still have to prove they can maximize Don\u010di\u0107\u2019s championship window. But Don\u010di\u0107, Reaves and James showed they can still thrive together even amid the discomfort when one of them played off the ball. In this case, mostly James. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/markmedina\/2026\/06\/29\/why-lebron-james-best-free-agency-option-has-always-been-the-lakers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Some rival NBA executives and coaches have mixed feelings on whether James has the appetite to repeat that experience again.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Some rival NBA executives and coaches have mixed feelings on whether James has the appetite to repeat that experience again.&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Some rival NBA executives and coaches have mixed feelings on whether James has the appetite to repeat that experience again.<\/a> Some remain bullish on James\u2019 versatility and unselfishness. Some express skepticism on whether James can stay patient with Don\u010di\u0107 ball-dominant and isolation-heavy play. Some contend that Don\u010di\u0107 shares with his teammates just fine as shown with his strong connection with Reaves, his lobs to various teammates and his looks for James.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/markmedina\/2026\/06\/29\/why-lebron-james-best-free-agency-option-has-always-been-the-lakers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Forbes.com;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Forbes.com&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Forbes.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Lakers still have to prove they can maximize Don\u010di\u0107\u2019s championship window. But Don\u010di\u0107, Reaves and James showed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":770550,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,122191,82,31571],"class_list":["post-770642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-reaves","tag-sports","tag-the-lakers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=770642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/770550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=770642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=770642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=770642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}