LeBron James Has Been The Highest-Paid Player Only For One Season Despite Making $581 Million originally appeared on Fadeaway World.

The Lakers may try to make history early in the NBA season and get it out of the way so that it's not a lingering distraction.

Luka Doncic is the perfect successor for LeBron James to hand the keys of the Los Angeles Lakers franchise to. Like James, Doncic is a bigger guard who can make any pass but he’s more of a natural scorer that can score at every level of the floor.

Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James is still reportedly monitoring the team's offseason activity after his agent, Rich Paul, previously confirmed that he would be doing so.

Luka Dončić's max extension with the Los Angeles Lakers makes him the new front-facing star of the team -- not LeBron James, an aging superstar playing the final years of a future Hall of Fame career. Still, James remains "supportive" of the franchise's move to lock in Dončić at three years and $165 million, according to ESPN's Shams Charania.

Luka Doncic was so shocked by the Dallas Mavericks trading him, he cried on his return to the arena. But if there's one team a superstar would want to go to in a scenario like this, it's the Los Angeles Lakers.