If Nikola Jokic’s agent was seeking to increase some eyebrows, he actually succeeded.
Misko Raznatovic, the agent of the Denver Nuggets famous person, posted to Instagram a not-so-subtle submit of himself on a yacht with Los Angeles Lakers famous person LeBron James and his longtime enterprise accomplice, Maverick Carter.
The submit is geotagged in Saint Tropez, France, although it’s unclear when precisely the get-together happened.
The Instagram submit is moreover captioned, “The summer of 2025 is the perfect time to make big plans for the fall of 2026!”
The submit and its timing actually seize the eye of basketball followers in every single place, contemplating the implications it may have.
James, 40, opted into his contract with the Lakers for this upcoming season, which he’s set to make $52.6 million in, and it doubtless indicators the tip of his tenure with the Lakers, with whom he signed with in 2018 as a free agent and helped them win a title in 2020.
And the agent to one of many greatest NBA stars on the planet assembly with James and his enterprise accomplice will surely lend extra credence to the concept that James’ time in Hollywood could possibly be coming to an in depth.
The Nuggets and teaming with Jokic would give James one other shot at an NBA title and Denver is predicted to have the required cap house to make one thing occur.
Hypothesis has continued and on Sunday, NBA insider Marc Stein reported that James’ future in LA would come down to at least one main issue.
“It all really depends on how this coming season goes,” a supply advised the insider.
Beforehand, James’ agent Wealthy Klein advised ESPN that his consumer’s large precedence was that he “wants to compete for a championship” and “values a realistic chance of winning it all.”
“We understand the difficulty in winning now while preparing for the future,” Klein stated in his assertion final month. “We do want to evaluate what’s best for LeBron at this stage in his life and career. He wants to make every season he has left count, and the Lakers understand that, are supportive and want what’s best for him.”
